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Food Security in Kinshasa
Project / Program Summary

I. Basic data

Sector(s): Rural development
Title: Food Security in Kinshasa
Donor country / organization: WFP and Belgium
Other donors / organizations involved: FAO
Beneficiary countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Implementing agencies in beneficiary countries: NGO "CDI-Bwamanda"
Duration: 2 years
Starting Date: November 1997
Project / Program budget: US$2,517,443
Finance / Type of cooperation: Grant / Food Aid

II. Project / program description

  1. Objectives

    Long-term objectives

    The project aims to increase and stabilise beneficiary families' incomes through rice cultivation on agricultural lands which according to the Zairian law the farmers registered under the project will be legally entitled to use for 99 years. Since part of the production will be marketed, indirect benefits of the project include the improvement of the rice supply to Kinshasa.

    Immediate objectives

    In the short term, the project will:
    • improve and cultivate 2,000 hectares of land (500 hectares on the Kingabwa site, 1,000 hectares on the Masina site and 500 hectares on the Mikonga site);
    • produce and market between 12,000 and 16,000 tons of paddy (part of the production will be consumed by the beneficiaries);
    • offer permanent employment to 5,000 family heads, of which some 2,800 women, and their families.
  2. Activities / contents

    1,000 hectares of the Pool Malebo marshes will be improved or rehabilitated and farmed each year.
    Each family head will be granted 0.4 hectares to farm. Expected production is between 2.4 and 3.2 tons of paddy a year and 0.3 tons of vegetables annually, in other words between 12,000 and 16,000 tons of paddy by the end of the project. The beneficiary population will therefore be provided with permanent means of subsistence, with consequent substantial benefits.
    Principal improvement or rehabilitation works in the marshlands include clearing, track construction, dikes, drainage and irrigation channels etc. The works will require 1,025,000 workdays.
  3. Expected outcomes / impacts

    Annual beneficiaries of this two years are the 2,500 future holders of the rehabilitated lands and their dependants, or a total of some 20,000 people (including some 14,000 women) currently living in the neighbourhood of the Pool Malebo marshes.
    Project benefits to participants may be listed as:
    • agricultural production (rice and vegetables);
    • revenue deriving from the sale of the above products;
    • mastery of paddy rice cultivation techniques.
    Assuming a production of 2.4 tons of paddy per holding and per season, project UNDP/FAO/ZAI/96/012 calculated that the net profit to each farmer would be 512 dollars a year, well above the minimum wage.
    Indirectly, the project could also have a stimulating, multiplier effect reaching a number of "indirect" beneficiaries in addition to the above-mentioned future plot-holders and beneficiaries. They would include casual labourers, small and medium-size enterprises and other trades involved in agriculture (processing, transport, retailing and tools production). This group is estimated at around 10,000 people.
  4. Features in line with the Agenda for Action

    N/A

III. Contact point:

WFP Africa Region Bureau (OSA)
Mr. Mohamed Zejjari, Regional Director OSA
Mr. Tun Myat, Director RE 		Fax: 0039-06-6513-2839
Tel: 0039-06-6513-2201
Tel: 0039-06-6513-2009

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