Agro Forestry Improvement Partnership (AFIP)

Location: South Asia | Bangladesh

Sector: Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Private Sector and Enterprise Development

Dates: Starts 01/07/2010 | Completion 01/12/2012

Partners: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

The goal of AFIP is that small farmers throughout Bangladesh have ready access to quality planting material of desired varieties of agroforestry species - as a result of a systematic national programme of QPM development and distribution involving key stakeholders'. Agroforestry - particularly the mixed cultivation of a wide variety of trees and crops (fruit trees, timber trees, bamboo, vegetables, spices, medicinal plants) in and around homesteads - is of immense importance to the livelihoods of small and marginal farmers in Bangladesh, who represent over 50 % of the total rural population and for whom the homestead constitutes the main resource base for their livelihoods.

The primary beneficiaries of AFIP are small and marginal farmers' households - including those having only homesteads - the large majority of whom are poor. AFIP focuses on the establishment of a sustainable system for production and distribution of quality planting materials (QPM) by linking national institutions with private nurseries and their associations. Project with national coverage, strong linkages to SAMRIDDHI in common intervention areas.

AFIP is funded by SDC and implemented by Intercooperation. To find out more, visit: www.intercooperation.ch/projects/p89

Contact detailsFelix Bachmann

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