Tsivory

Tsivory is a large town in southern Madagascar. From 1996 to 2008, Tsivory hosted the headquarter of the PHBM Project of the Government of Madagascar support by IFAD(International fund for Agriculture Development : www.ifad.org ).PHBM stands for Projet de Développement du Haut Bassin du Mandrare.This project has developed for than 200 km of roads, 5000 ha of irrigation schemes.The livelihoods of the 146000 people living in the surrounding 11 communes has doubled during the past 10 years. The area now produces 22 000 tons of rice / year ( compared with 1500 tons in the 90's).The project has closed in September 2008 and farmers associations are pursuing the rural development work.More information available at: www. phbm.mg and www.ruralpovertyportal.org