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FASSA - Agro-Sustainable Value Chain for Food Security

Tunisia

Status

Implementation

Aid type

Project-type interventions

Tunisia


Location

-

€ 1,940,173
Committed
€ 0
Used

Description

Fassa is the ancestral name in Tunisian dialect of one of the most widespread fodder crops in the country. The FASSA project - Agro-Sustainable Value Chain for Food Security is grounded in the capitalization of the experiences of the project partners (COSPE, ATAE, Shanti, UNFT and COOPERMONDO) to provide an integrated and effective response to the need for transition towards agricultural and social development models -economically sustainable in the Tunisian regions of Jendouba, Kairouan and Mahdia. The initiative contributes to food security in Tunisia (Nutrition) by promoting access to sufficient and safe nutrition (SDG 2.1), through agroecological interventions that support the environment by strengthening the resilience of the land (Aid to environment). Therefore, the project contributes to preventing natural disasters (DDR), through participatory processes that make communities protagonists of change (Participatory Development) and by placing women at the center of the process of safeguarding food security and sovereignty, as drivers of change (Gender Equality). The difficulty in achieving the objectives of food security and sovereignty in Tunisia are connected to the impoverishment of the agricultural sector which has to face multiple challenges including the reduction of available manpower, the dependence on international markets for the import of seeds and food products and the deterioration of natural resources due to unsustainable agricultural exploitation and climate change. In consideration of these vulnerabilities, FASSA promotes the consolidation of fair, resilient and inclusive based value chains in the target territories, encouraging the protagonism of women farmers and accompanying collective economic structures and networks in a process of strengthening production, marketing and consumption systems sustainable on a social, economic and environmental level. The project, starting from the awareness of the key role played by women in promoting sustainable agri-food systems, focuses on strengthening two strategic supply chains for food security: the supply chain of local and selfproduced fodder seeds intended for livestock and the milk supply chain. Starting from the elements that emerged from the needs assessment carried out by the partners, FASSA is divided into 3 axes of intervention: ● Empowerment of women farmers/producers to strengthen their decision-making power and protagonism in the economic structures of the agri-food sectors. In each territory, a group of "resource women" will participatory develop "women's agendas" to identify priority needs and challenges regarding inclusion and participation, and proposing practical solutions to the problems identified through the implementation of pilot actions. ● Promote the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices: the members of the cooperatives will strengthen their skills in the fields of social and solidarity economy, agroecology and cooperativism and will be the protagonists of a technical and structural support process aimed at strengthening the different stages of the two supply chains in a sustainable way. Pilot plots will be created to self-produce and enhance fodder seeds for breeding that are local, suitable for natural ecosystems and with a nutritional value useful for improving the quantity and quality of the milk produced. ● Strengthening the networks of collective economic structures and actors of the SSE ecosystems at regional, national and international level, by promoting the capitalization and sharing of good practices between the collective economic structures of the three target regions and the promotion of dialogue with the ecosystems of the SSE. Particular attention will be paid to the promotion of advocacy actions for the adaptation of the legislative framework aiming at a socio-ecological transition. read more close
Year Committed Used
2025 € 1,940,173 € 0

Agency

Type Name Channel code
Government AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development 11000

Channel reported

Type Name Channel code
National NGO COSPE - COOPERAZIONE PAESI EMERGENTI ONLUS 22000

Project data

  • IATI IdentifierXM-DAC-6-4-013244-06-6
  • AID013244/06/6
  • Planned start 2025/05/01
  • Planned End 2028/04/30
  • Actual start -
  • Actual end -
  • Bi/Multilateral Bilateral
  • Status Implementation
  • Tied status Tied

Sectors

  • 15170 - Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions 25.0%
  • 31150 - Agricultural inputs 15.0%
  • 31194 - Agricultural co-operatives 20.0%
  • 31220 - Forestry development 15.0%
  • 43072 - Household food security programmes 25.0%

Policy markers

  • Gender Equality significant objective
  • Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) significant objective
  • Disability not targeted
  • Nutrition principal objective
  • Aid to Environment significant objective
  • Participatory Development/Good Governance significant objective
  • Trade Development significant objective
  • Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity principal objective
  • Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Mitigation significant objective
  • Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Adaptation significant objective
  • Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention to Combat Desertification significant objective
  • Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) not targeted

SDGs

  • 12.3 - By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses
  • 15.3 - By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world
  • 2.1 - By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
  • 2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
  • 2.5 - By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
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