Who We Are
The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±) is a multilateral financing platform dedicated to improving food and nutrition security worldwide. Launched by the G20 in the wake of the global response to the 2007–08 food price crisis, мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± works to build resilient and sustainable agriculture and food systems in the world’s poorest countries.
Since 2010, мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± has pooled over $2 billion in donor funds and provided financial and technical resources – grants, technical assistance, concessional loans, blended finance, and advisory services – to demand-driven projects along the food chain, from ‘farm to table’. Governments, farmers’ and producer organizations, and the private sector are in the lead: designing and implementing these projects in partnership with a development agency of their choice.
Explore Our WorkOur History
Following commitments by G8 leaders (now the G7) and reaffirmed by the G20, мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± was launched in April 2010 as a key element of the Obama Administration’s initiative to enhance food security in poor countries. мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± was created in response to a call by G20 leaders in Pittsburgh in September 2009 for the World Bank Group to work with interested donors to set up a multi-donor trust fund to help implement some of the $22 billion in pledges made by the G8 at their meeting in L’Aquila in July 2009. The inaugural donors—Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Canada, the Republic of Korea, Spain, and the United States—were later joined by Australia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom.
