The Agribusiness and Trade Promotion (ATP) project is a four-year project funded by the U.S. Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) West Africa with the main objective of increasing the value and volume of selected agricultural commodities including ruminant-livestock/red meat, onions/shallots, and maize to facilitate intra-regional trade in the West Africa region.
ATP’s sister project, the Expanded Agribusiness and Trade Promotion (E-ATP) expands on the requirements of the ongoing ATP program in the areas of poultry, rice, and millet/sorghum.
Both projects are designed to support other regional initiatives aimed at improving social and economic well-being of people in order to ensure food security and reduce poverty in West African countries, particularly Burkina Faso and Mali, in the Sahelian region, and Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Nigeria in the coastal region.
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Policy Constraints
A major cause of the high cost of doing business in West Africa is an enabling environment characterized by unsuitable policies or by policy misapplication. After monitoring the policy environment through dialogue with industry actors and their various organizations at both regional and national... [Read more]
