The ECOWAS regional food security storage strategy organizes a regional reserve system to respond to food, nutritional and pastoral crises.
These crises are growing in scale and frequency. They affect every country in the region, mainly due to climate change, insecurity, inflation and soaring food prices.
The storage system combines local, national and, finally, the Regional Food Security Reserve for the West Africa and Sahel region.
Faced with these crucial challenges, ECOWAS has joined forces with INADES Formation and regional networks of producers’ and breeders’ organizations to build a house of knowledge on local storage, managed by producers’ organizations (POs).
A capacity-building curriculum for PO elected representatives and technicians has been developed and is being rolled out through training courses in each country and an e-learning platform.
A workshop to capitalize on this process, based on good stock management practices by POs, will bring together over 70 participants in Cotonou from February 25 to 27, 2025. It will lay the foundations for the long-term sustainability of the integrated training and transformation of food and livestock feed storage practices.
For more details, read the flyer in English – in French
