The case of smallholders in Sierra Leone - agrilife - Europa

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................................1
2 DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEXT IN SIERRA LEONE............................................................4
2.1 GENERAL CONTEXT.....................................................................................................................4
2.2 POPULATION................................................................................................................................6
2.3 HEALTH.......................................................................................................................................7
2.4 EDUCATION .................................................................................................................................8
2.5 MACROECONOMICS .....................................................................................................................8
2.6 LABOUR ....................................................................................................................................11
2.7 MAJOR SECTORS........................................................................................................................11
3 THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR .................................................................................................14
3.1 AGRICULTURE IN THE ECONOMY................................................................................................14
3.1.1 Crop Production...................................................................................................................16
3.1.2 Livestock, Fishery and Forestry ...........................................................................................21
3.2 AGRO-ECOLOGIES, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND AGRARIAN SYSTEM................................24
3.3 CHIEFDOMS & FARM HOUSEHOLDS: INSTITUTIONAL AND TECHNICAL ASPECTS..........................32
3.3.1 Land Tenure .........................................................................................................................32
3.3.2 Social Structure. Traditional Chieftaincy Structure and Role of the Paramount Chief .........34
3.3.3 Household and Division of Labour .......................................................................................35
3.3.4 Production at the Farm Household Level .............................................................................36
3.4 AGRICULTURE - RELATED GOVERNMENTAL POLICIES IN POST WAR SIERRA LEONE...................38
3.4.1 Development policies............................................................................................................38
3.4.2 Agricultural taxation and tariff policies ...............................................................................41
3.4.3 Rice: Government support and intervention .........................................................................42
3.5 SECTOR CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES..................................................................................43
3.5.1 Poverty & Food Insecurity ...................................................................................................43
3.5.2 Crop production constraints.................................................................................................44
3.5.3 Concluding remarks .............................................................................................................52
4 EU SUPPORT PROGRAMMES FOR RICE AND TREE CROP PRODUCTION (STABEX)...53