ECOWAS has taken an important step in opposition to bolstering agricultural resilience and farm animals gain in West Africa with the signing and release of 2 main regional projects in partnership with the French Republic.

At a high-level rite in Abuja on 4th December 2025, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, H.E. Dr Omar Alieu Touray, signed the financing settlement for the second one segment of the Regional Project to Strengthen a Platform of Solutions in Support of Pastoralism and Livestock Farming in West Africa (PEPISAO II). He additionally officially inaugurated the West Africa Milk Offensive Support Project (PAOLAO).

The match introduced in combination diplomats, representatives of member states and senior ECOWAS officers, underscoring the area’s collective dedication to strengthening meals safety, bettering pastoral programs and increasing inclusive financial possibilities.

Speaking on the rite, ECOWAS Commissioner for Economic Affairs and Agriculture, Dr Kalilou Sylla, highlighted the transformative ambitions of the 2 initiatives. He famous that PEPISAO II objectives to beef up governance in pastoral programs, advertise worldwide battle mitigation and give a boost to social concord — all important to steadiness and mobility in pastoral communities.

PAOLAO, however, is designed to spice up native milk manufacturing, broaden the dairy worth chain and create new employment and strategy pathways for farmers, herders, younger other folks and girls. The initiative seeks to scale back reliance on imported dairy merchandise whilst strengthening native field competitiveness.

Dr Sylla emphasized that each initiatives replicate ECOWAS’s long-standing imaginative and prescient of a resilient, wealthy and built-in West Africa — one the place centered interventions translate into measurable enhancements in livelihoods and regional financial efficiency.

The partnership with the French Republic, he added, demonstrates the significance of coordinated worldwide toughen in turning in sustainable agricultural transformation around the sub-region.

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