Agricultural Productivity Development Program in Mali (PAPAM)

The Agricultural Productivity Development Program in Mali (PAPAM) will contribute to Mali food security and specific objectives for agricultural growth.

The Project's development goal stresses farming activity productivity increases within production systems and targeted geographic areas.

To reach this goal, the operation tackles the modernization of family farm agriculture by: (i) investing in adapted infrastructure and equipment (particularly large or small scale irrigation); (ii) enhancing agriculture services (research, training, counseling, funding, equipment supply, etc.), and (iii) setting an appropriate political and institutional environment to help enhance the handling of sub-sector policy issues.

PAPAM aims at increasing agricultural productivity.

The Project may have some environmental risks that can be clearly identified, mainly those related to the intensification of farming activities, irrigation, and water use, along with post harvest operations linked to storage and product processing.

The environmental management framework includes identification of risks linked with different project activities, within targeted production systems, and mitigation measures to be implemented during project execution.

The Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) is designed to help define the project's environmental and social impacts.

It broadly outlines assessment of environmental and social impacts for future project activities and specific components; it also helps to define the assessment criteria for Project, along with mitigation or compensation measures.

Negative effects on human environment are: population displacement; increased risks in handling phytosanitary products(e.g. careless handling of products that threatens human health and environment); conflicts related to land use rights (including the coexistence of different types of land rights, complaint procedures in respective villages); potential conflicts between agriculture and livestock fa