Central African Republic

Improving food safety for the  people of Vakaga and Haute Kotto

Thanks to support from the Fonds Commun Humanitaire (CHF), at the end of 2008 and the start of 2009, Triangle assessed the food safety situation and potential farming development schemes in the areas where we operate. Despite the fact that such areas possess considerable farming possibilities, food shortage is common among most of the families living there. Such shortages have taken root as a consequence of social, geographical and economic isolation. That same isolation that nurtured the devastating rebellion that still shakes the country despite tangible developmental and political progress.

Project aims:

• Provide improved and/or recovered access to basic agricultural inputs (seeds)
• Increase the surface sown, and diversify and multiply produce
• Increase the availability of, and the access to, varied food products at local level

More specifically, Triangle G H is:

• Distributing seed kits to 13,000 families
• Creating pilot plots for training and capitalisation
• Measuring the areas sown, estimating yield and produce, and making this data available to all stakeholders in the agricultural sector.

Promoting the social organisation of each village, to optimize implementation of the technical means and increase the level of knowledge is once again the aim here. Triangle is working closely with the Agence Centrafricaine de Développement Agricole (ACDA) and the Institut Centrafricain de Recherche Agronomique (ICRA) to support the presence of State representatives in the most remote prefectures.

Triangle is currently searching for additional funds to provide a wider-scale intervention. Indeed, a larger programme is necessary should we wish to significantly energize the primary sector in the North-East of the CAR and reinstate this region at national level – thus consolidating the economical safety of the families living there.