SAFE - Food Security, Supply Chain, and Eco-Resilience

About this project

The SAFE Project – Food Security, Supply Chain, and Eco-Resilience, presented by COMI with partners UNIBO, ISFMI, VSF-IT, ArcoPin, with the local counterpart Agrisenergy and local partners IREF, POSTE DE SANTE NDAO, PafilKaf, GIE, and USSEIN, aims to contribute to ensuring food security, improving child malnutrition, and increasing the income of small and medium farmers and herders in the Kaffrine Region (Senegal). The intended change focuses on food security, identified as a key element for the social and economic development of the country. This strategy was born from a needs analysis conducted by the partnership in close collaboration with the local community of the Kaffrine Region, which highlighted several issues: • The current limited capacity of the rural community to respond to the challenges faced by Senegalese agriculture as a result of climate change; • Access to water, both for irrigation and potability; • The use of traditional agricultural techniques that limit productivity; • Poor access to markets and added value, which do not allow for improved profitability of farmers; • The living conditions of children, especially the vulnerable group of Talibé, who are at risk of undernutrition and malnutrition. The project will promote production techniques and models that include diversified crops, efficient use of water resources, and greater resilience to climate change, which can be used by farmers and herders. These models also focus on animal welfare, Climate Smar…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 2Zero Hunger
• 5Gender Equality
• 13Climate Action
• 15Life on Land

Published by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development · Government

Countries

Senegal

Sectors

Agricultural developmentAgricultural co-operativesHousehold food security programmes

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesDisaster risk reduction · Also contributesNutrition · Main focusEnvironment · Main focusGood governance · Also contributesBiodiversity · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Main focusDesertification · Also contributesMaternal, newborn and child health · Also contributes

Funded by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Implemented by

COMI- COOPERAZIONE PER IL MONDO IN VIA DI SVILUPPO ONG

Accountable

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Published by AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 5 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-6-4-013244-11-1.

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