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Our resource centre gathers resources from across the programme, sharing information and knowledge on Propcom+’s Climate-Smart Agricultural Interventions approach.
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22 documents
April 08, 2025
Success Stories
Nigeria’s agricultural sector faces enormous challenges, including a heavy reliance on rain-fed agriculture.According to a Federal Government report, only 5.4% of agricultural farmland in Nigeria is currently irrigated. Many farmers rely primarily on rain-fed farming, which has record-low productivity year after year. CESEL, a Nigerian renewable energy social enterprise, piloted a rent-to-own cluster irrigation facility called the Irri-Go model as part of the Sustainable Rice Intensification (SRI) pilot implemented by Propcom+. Several farming clusters received the irrigation infrastructure through the Irri-Go rent-to-own model facilitated by CESEL.
April 08, 2025
Success Stories
Nigeria’s power sector faces significant challenges, including insufficient power generation and unreliable transmission and distribution networks. Rural areas are the most affected, often going days, weeks, or months without electricity due to frequent power outages. This hinders economic growth and development. But in 2024, Tropical Poultry Services Limited received a matching grant fund from Propcom+ under the Climate-smart Agriculture Grant Facility to set up two (2) solar-powered vaccine distribution hubs and distribute SDD freezers to nine (9) Agrovet dealers across Kano and Jigawa States to enable the distribution of appropriately sized, well-suited vaccines to smallholder poultry farmers at the last mile.
April 08, 2025
Success Stories
Despite their small flocks, smallholder poultry and livestock farmers represent a largely untapped segment of the market for poultry and livestock products. Most rural women in Nigeria rely on backyard poultry to feed their families and maintain healthy nutrition. A Nigerian poultry agribusiness, Tropical Poultry Services Limited, has come to recognise this opportunity and is wasting no time tapping into the market.
April 08, 2025
Success Stories
Smallholder farmers are at the heart of food production in Nigeria. They comprise over 80% of Nigerian farmers and account for 90% of agricultural produce (FAO). Yet this crucial group often depends on traditional farming and post-farming practices that are labour-intensive, time-consuming, and inefficient. For many women smallholder farmers, this is an uphill battle, made worse by gender norms regarding women’s traditional roles as wives and mothers coupled with the increased cost of fossil-powered equipment. Their access to productive climate-smart agricultural equipment can lessen this burden and sustain their essential contributions to agriculture and food security.
March 26, 2025
Success Stories
In June 2024, Dahiru got the opportunity he had been seeking to venture into his field of study when he got enrolled in a training course for community animal health workers (CAHWs) facilitated by the UK Government funded Propcom+ in collaboration with the Jigawa State Government and other private sector actors.
So, Dahiru, along with 246 other people, were trained on animal health principles, disease management and community engagement and tooled with start-up kits and motorbikes for ease of access to very remote communities.
March 06, 2025
Success Stories
In the small rural community of Bunkure in Kano State, northwest Nigeria, lies the incredible story of Talatu, Zulaiha A., Maimuna, and Zulaiha I., four women who brought hope to their community and helped boost nutrition for families using the yield from an improved climate-smart millet variety facilitated by the UK Government-funded Propcom+ programme.
February 12, 2025
Research/Study Report
Propcom+ implemented a System of Rice Intensification (SRI) project, expanding on the success of the FCDO LINKS initiative in Kano and Jigawa states. Evidence from the LINKS pilots indicated that SRI practice increases rice productivity and reduces methane emissions. Unlike conventional rice farming, SRI can be practised in wet and dry seasons, giving farmers all-year-round farm income and contributing to improved livelihoods. The pilot also revealed key constraints limiting farmers’ participation and adoption, particularly among women.
February 12, 2025
Factsheet
The business case supports financing for productive use assets to enhance rice production through the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) using a service delivery model. The transplanter promotes wide spacing and single/minimum seedling transplanting components of SRI. The logic of the service delivery model is to overcome the drudgery aspects of wide spacing and minimum seedling transplanting.
February 12, 2025
Factsheet
The FCDO LINKS Programme demonstrated the benefits of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), including higher yields and significant reduction in methane emissions.
January 20, 2025
Factsheet
Propcom+ is an eight-year (2023 – 2030) rural and agricultural market development programme supporting climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture and forestry that benefits people, climate and nature.
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