PRIMA’s overall objective is to stimulate regional agricultural trade to create jobs for women and young people, increase incomes and improve food security and nutrition for the rural poor. The project’s objective is to support the sustainable transformation of family farming in Benin and Togo by improving the performance of sub-regional trade hubs and cross-border transport corridors, while promoting rural entrepreneurship for youth and women, and fully integrating small farmers into national and sub-regional markets.
PRIMA will be implemented through two national projects (PRIMA-Benin and PRIMA-Togo) over a 6-year period (from 2022 to 2028), with a particular focus on cross-border trade corridors common to both countries and to other ECOWAS countries.