SA/RRC: more than 30000 households are its beneficiaries

With its local Rehabilitation and Agricultural Urgency Coordination Unit (CAUR), the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) contribute and facilitate changes in the management of agricultural production in order to diversify the population’s survival strategies and to render sustainable the appropriate risk and disaster management mechanism, especially in vulnerable and remote localities. The FAO’s primary target groups are vulnerable households making a living with agriculture. The activities of FAO/CAUR are mostly concentrated on the response to natural disasters through the use and promotion of quality seeds, used for a short-term period and able to stand floods.
In 2010, all these approaches were combined in one operation called “Food Security with Risk Management Reduction Approach” or generally known as SA/RRC. Its goal is to ensure a stable productivity of peasants before and after natural disasters. 30000 households could benefit from this operation in one year, which come from 6 Districts. These beneficiaries produced about 118 tonnes of rice on a short-term period with quality seeds, thus meeting the standard of QDS (Quality Declared Seeds). They also produced 374 of maize, 358 tonnes of beans, and 312 tonnes of harvested yams, thus significantly making food more available and accessible to the target population.