Burma

Food Security Programme in areas affected by Cyclone Nargis – Market gardening and rehabilitation of agricultural land and community facilities – Laputta and Kungyangon districts

• Funding: French Foreign Affairs Ministry – Inter-ministry Committee on Food Security
• Global budget: €486,000
• Duration: 7 months (March to October 2009)

When Cyclone Nargis swept through Burma, as well as compromising the land production capacity for the 2008 harvest, it destroyed or damaged most of the seeds and rice stocked by landowners-farmers and day-workers. The fact that 2008’s production is approximately only 30% of the usual production, and the damage caused by the cyclone, make recruitment and payment (in rice) of the day-workers complicated, especially in terms of the next rainy season’s crops.