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Mali: Strengthening land rights and food security in Mali

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Source: Government of the United States of America
Country: Mali
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ABSTRACT

The people of Mali are among the roughly 1 billion worldwide who suffer from food insecurity.
In 2010, just over 50 percent of the country’s population lived on less than $1.25 per day, and 27 percent of the children under five years of age were underweight. The causes of food security in Mali are intertwined, and include poverty, inadequate supply and political instability. Poverty is especially severe in rural areas, where 80 percent of the population is not earning enough money, or growing enough food, to meet their basic caloric needs on a consistent basis (USAID 2010).
The country also suffers from a food supply deficit in terms of national production and trade, inadequate storage to reduce losses and insufficient transport to make food available where needed. Food security problems are compounded in Mali by political instability, which disrupts food distribution channels and cuts off access. The Malian military overthrew the democraticallyelected government in March of 2012. Separatist and Islamic fundamentalist groups controlled the entire northern half of the country and continued their advance until the French military intervened in early 2013. From 2007 to 2012, the Millennium Challenge Corporation supported a major effort to address these causes of food security. The Government of Mali, with MCC financial and technical assistance, implemented the Alatona Irrigation Project in a remote area of the Ségou region of central Mali. The integrated agricultural development project prepared almost 5,000 hectares of irrigated land, allocated the land to farmers and provided them with startup inputs as well as agricultural and financial training. This article describes how key questions about the project’s land allocation activity that relate to food security were addressed and implemented.
Section I provides a short description of the project. Section II examines the land activity. Section III discusses the results and what was learned vis-à-vis food security.


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