Yemen

1/ Integrated Food Safety in Marawah district, Hodeidah Governorat

• Funding: EuropeAid (European Commission), and Co-sponsor to be identified
• Global budget: 1 700 K€
• Duration: 36 months (January 2008 – January 2011)

Based on a definition of the concept of food security allying food consumption and state of health – a definition stemming from the work of the World Food Security Committee - Triangle G H GH together with ‘Aide Médicale Internationale’, each association within its specific field of expertise, carry out a joint action towards the populations of the Tihama plains, one of the poorest areas in the Republic of Yemen.

Expected results:

• The exploitation of the natural resources used for farming is improved on a long-term basis
• The farming strategies of subsistence are supported
• The access to quality basic healthcare is strengthened on a long-term basis

2/ Integrated economic security project in the districts of Mayfaah and Rudoom, governorate of Shabwah

The still delicate stability of the Governorate of Shabwah is one of the avatars of the area’s economic decline. Triangle G H intervenes within the frame of a three-year project in order to establish improved farming practices and help boost declining agricultural and animal production. Over 25,000 famers directly benefit from this program.

Expected results:

• The animal production is improved  
• Thanks to the rehabilitation of damaged irrigation channels, the cereal and fodder production is improved
• The support brought to the production of dates and market gardening products enables the improvement and the diversification of the means of subsistence of the families, as well as of their food habits.

3/ Development and promotion of a socially and ecologically friendly agriculture on the Island of Socotra

• Funding: AFD (Agence française de développement)
• Global budget: 715 K€
• Duration: 30 months (January 2009 – July 2011)

Extending its previous project, Triangle G H continues to provide a proximity support to the groups of market gardeners in Socotra, and follows the products’ marketing as well as the duplication of local seeds. It is true that the Island of Socotra offers climatic and natural conditions totally suitable to this type of project, however, the advanced protection of this rich and fragile environment imposes a strict control on farming practices, and, as it is the case in the whole Republic of Yemen, an advanced mastering of the means of irrigation.

Expected results:

• To foster the increase in the production of fruits and vegetables in the Island of Socotra on a long-term basis
• To strengthen local capacities in terms of organization and development of new paths
• To favour Socotran seeds, a biological agriculture and improved nutritional practices

4/ Towards restoring the farming capacities of the communities living in the district of Sah, Governorate of Hadramout.

In the direct continuity of the first rehabilitation programme also supported by TEPY, Triangle G H is still committed to the cause of the populations living on the banks of wadi Sah, the victims of exceptional floods in October 2008. The restoration of the farming land and of the totality of the major structures (channels, dams, dykes), enabling the irrigation of the parcels under cultivation, was achieved during the first phase, and the operations of support to breeding activities are currently being implemented.  

Expected results :

• The communities of wadi Sah have retrieved access to channelled irrigation
• Irrigation capacities are back to normal
• The most vulnerable breeders have reconstituted their flocks

5/ Towards the restoration of the farming productive capacities of households, the improvement of practices and a mitigation of the impact of the rise in the prices of foodstuff

• Funding: EuropeAid (European Commission)
• Global budget: 1 258 K€
• Duration: 25 months (January 2010 – October 2011)

The valley of Tareem has been particularly struck by the floods in October 2008, as was the valley of wadi Sah. Triangle G H works here, in close collaboration with two local partners (WHADP and TAA), on the restoring of the traditional channelled irrigation system, in order to enhance the boosting of farming activities through the access to irrigation and the cleaning/levelling of farming land. These surfaces made exploitable, the support to the rehabilitation of wells located on arable lands not served by channels, the distribution of farming inputs, technical training sessions for farmers as well as the search for solutions concerning the mesquite management, should favour increased productions, thus improving food security at family level.

Expected results:

• The access to arable lands is restored
• The access to channelled land irrigation is restored
• The productive farming capacities are improved
• The capacity of farming and natural resources management is improved