Farmer-to-Farmer with ACDIVOCA West Africa

The primary WA F2F goal is to generate rapid, sustained and broad-based economic growth through short-term technical assistance in the agricultural sector.

A second key program goal is to increase the U.S. public's understanding of international development assistance as well as international hosts and program participants understanding of U.S. foreign assistance and the American people through the personal, people-to-people exchanges that occur via the assignments.

F2F West Africa was implemented in core countries Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Mali and several flexible countries.

The underlying strategy for our implementation of the F2F West Africa program is to raise productivity for West African farmers in a way that supportedfarmer access to markets or end use processors.

Thus, we have focused activities on three themes: 1) improved access to export markets; 2) increased productivity that allowed profitable access to known domestic and regional markets; and 3) import substitution, particularly focused on increased local sales to multinational food processors and feed mills who normally import raw product.