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Overview

China funds and builds Maseru Agriculture Storage and Logistics Center in Lesotho

Commitment Year•2019Country of Activity•LesothoSector•Agriculture, Forestry, FishingFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Pipeline: Commitment

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Sep 1, 2019
Start (actual)
Jan 22, 2018
End (actual)
Jan 22, 2018

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Lesotho

Loan description

China funds and builds Maseru Agriculture Storage and Logistics Center in Lesotho

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On 22 January 2018, a team of six Chinese engineers arrived in Lesotho to carry out preliminary research on an agricultural products storage, logistics, and trading center project (农产品仓储物流交易中心项目 or Maseru Agriculture Storage and Logistics Infrastructure project). The trip must have showed potential because between 3 and 4 September 2018 at the Beijing Summit for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), Lesotho's president and China's premier signed several agreements; one of which being feasibility study for the agricultural storage center. In September 2019, the Chinese Ambassador told Basotho reporters that during a coordinators’ meeting (unknown date) for following up on the 2018 Beijing Summit, Lesotho and China government officials signed an exchange of letters marking formal commitment to this project. The Chinese government is most likely building and funding this entire project for free, but this claim lacks solid evidence. The value of this project is unknown. As of December 2019, this project was not complete. The purpose of this project is to help Lesotho alleviate food insecurity issues and decrease the amount of times China must donate food.