The Gambia

Organisations / Institutions

• SWMU (the Soil and Water Management Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture): in charge of developing policies on soil and water management, land capability zoning, upland conservation and development of small-scale water control schemes in lowland rice ecologies. It is divided into five sections, of which the Engineering Section is involved in irrigation development.
• Department of Water Resources, 7 Marina Parade, Banjul, The Gambia
• Department of Agricultural Services (DAS)
• Department of State For Agriculture (DOSA)
• Organization for the Development of the Gambia River Basin (OMVG)
• Gambia Co-operative Union P.O. Box 505, Kanifing, Phone: 392581 Telex: 2270 COOPS GV Fax  392582
• Rice Experimental Station, Jenoi
• Sapu Agricultural Research Station, Seed Multiplication Unit, Department of Agriculture , Maccharty Island Divisio
• Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, Cape St. Mary, Bakaun , Banjul
• Yundum Research Station, Department of Agricultural Research, P.O. Box 739 Yundum, Gambia.
• SAPU Agricultural Station, Department of Agricultural Research, Cape St. Mary HQ, Bakau, Banjul, Gambia
•  National Agricultural Research Institute, PMB 526, Serekunda, The Gambia, Phone: (220) 48-47-25/47-28-75/67-80-73, Fax: (220) 48-49-27/47-28-75, E-mail: nari@commit.gm 

Projects / Projets

• South-South Cooperation between the Government of Bangladesh and the Gambia for Food Security in Gambia (approved 23.01.2000): peri-urban agriculture, tidal rice development, low-cost technologies. Contact: The Quadrangle, Banjul, The Gambia, tel 220 20 11 87, fax 220 227 994.
• Lowland Agricultural Development Project (LADEP) (click here) 
• Integrated Rice Development Project
• South-South Technical Cooperation Programme with Indonesia
• Small Holder Integrated Project (SHIP)
• Capacity Building Project for Rice Reclamation and Extension in The Gambia, ICDF
  

Documents

• Tidal irrigation. In: http://www.unep.or.jp/webm/

• Tidal Irrigation. In Sourcebook of Alternative Technologies for Freshwater Augmentation
  in Africa (UNEP).

• Environmental profile (WRI/SDIS)

• FAO. Monography on The Gambia: irrigation
• FAO. L'irrigation en Afrique en chiffres: The Gambia
• FAO. Rice production, statistics, constraints
• Bibliography of Gambian Natural Resources

General Information Générale

• Agriculture and nutrition in The Gambia (in French: base de données du Système Mondial d'Information et d'Alerte Rapide)
• World Factbook: The Gambia
• Stanford University Library's Africa pages: The Gambia