Agriculture Grant $ 2.5 million via IFAD to IICA

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has provided a US $2.5 million grant – $2 million of which was provided by the Swedish government – to the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) for a locally-managed 18-month program designed to create jobs and ensure food security for the hard-hit Haitian countryside.

Details here. They include info on other Haiti funding by this outfit.

These funds will be spent on irrigation systems, rural roads, community and family gardens, supply seeds and tools to approx 9,000 households, provide over 250 training courses on marketing, agricultural production, gender issues and organization building. They estimate this will generate around 200,000 days worth of employment.