Order of Malta Lebanon appointed AgriDev as Agriculture Service Provider under the AHEAD agro-humanitarian programme — a framework agreement to December 2028, funded by BMZ and the German Federal Foreign Office with Malteser International, delivered as sole prime across six governorates. Work comes through task orders across thirteen activity lines, in five groups:
- Agro-Humanitarian Centres — building two new ones and upgrading six, from site suitability and master planning through bills of quantities to commissioning and training.
- Nurseries and institutions — rehabilitating five Ministry of Agriculture nurseries, and strengthening the public bodies that serve the sector.
- Farmers and businesses — vulnerability assessment, in-kind support, training and coaching for farmers, micro-businesses and food processors, including conflict-affected communities.
- Value chains and products — supporting partner institutions that promote local value chains, and eight iconic Lebanese products.
- Resilience, digital and data — climate-smart and agroecology rollout, AI-enabled advisory services through the Centres, a cohesion initiative with the Lebanese Armed Forces, and technical backstopping for data and end-line assessment.
Contracted scale, not results — the framework is in month seven of thirty-two:
- Farmers and agribusiness actors — 1,500 mapped, 500 assessed and supported.
- Micro-businesses and food processors — 1,500 mapped, 500 assessed and supported.
- Conflict-impacted recovery — 3,000 assessed, 1,000 detailed needs assessments.
- Resource efficiency and resilience — 6,000 assessed, 2,000 input-use baselines.
12,000 farmers and food producers at assessment stage, 4,000 of them supported with three coaching visits each, and 12,138 coaching missions in all — including 138 across the Centres, nurseries, product value chains and the AI rollout.
Four phases: mobilisation to July 2026; foundation task orders to December 2026; peak delivery, including construction oversight and commissioning, to April 2028; then consolidation and end-line assessment to December 2028.