Promoting Stable Incomes and Food Security for Rural Communities in Eswatini - GCP/SWA/025/IFA
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The outbreak of COVID-19 had a severe impact in Eswatini, with the measures taken to address the crisis exacerbating an existing and underlying national food insecurity challenge. This is due to below average agricultural production, resulting in a 49 per cent deficit in national consumption requirements, compounded by soaring food prices. Restrictions in mobility and the partial lockdown immediately reduced incomes from micro, medium and small-scale enterprises, as well as informal jobs and self-employment activities. The impact of COVID-19 in Eswatini is magnified by the country’s vulnerability to recurrent climate-related and external shocks, with drought, dry spells, heatwaves, flash floods, hailstorms and a heavy burden of epidemics (HIV and AIDS, cholera, diarrhoeaand malaria) posing the highest risks. In this context, the main objective of the project was to provide a systemic stimulus and cushion for small-scale agricultural producers, transporters and traders in the agro-food value chain. In particular, it aimed to stimulate and stabilize the disrupted agro-food system by providing a productive social protection cushion for poor agricultural producers, transporters and traders.