Global Agriculture & Food Security Program (GAFSP)

GAFSP is a financing and partnership platform created by the G20 to end hunger and poverty – channeling resources to farmers, businesses, and countries.

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GAFSP launches a new US$163 million Call for Proposals to help low-income countries strengthen food security, build climate resilience, and improve livelihoods for smallholder farmers.

Learn more: https://t.co/XsLHhf2T8t

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🇸🇱 In Sierra Leone, a $25M grant from GAFSP is bringing biofortified cassava and orange-flesh sweet potato into 24,500 hectares of cultivation, reaching 943,200 people. Explore how country-led projects are transforming food security: https://t.co/hF4ExXRYys

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"Even when all harvests are not successful, we manage several gardens, because the vegetables provided are no longer wasted." — Berline Joseph, smallholder farmer in Haiti, on how the PARAGA project strengthened her food security. Watch her story: https://t.co/9YZhpjjoI9

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🇧🇫 Nourishing people, livestock and soils

In Burkina Faso, GAFSP's PAPSA program has improved over 850,000 lives through lowland development, small-scale irrigation, and water corridors for animals, helping farming communities adapt to climate pressures: https://t.co/ctMB1CbKOm

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📅 Save the date: Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Informational webinar on GAFSP's $163M Call for Proposals.

Covering eligibility, proposal requirements & how to apply — bring your questions to the team.

🕘 9:00 AM EDT
📍 Virtual

Zoom log-in details & FAQs: https://t.co/jMoDqY1o4y

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"Producer organizations harness the collective power of their members to strengthen value chains, cut costs, and improve livelihoods" — Shobha Shetty, GAFSP Head.
Read her full @nopovertyhunger blog on building resilience against the food crisis: https://t.co/eo6NdMkev6

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📈 What you can't measure, you can't change.

87% of GAFSP's recent projects track women's decision-making power, income control and other critical metrics to ensure genuine, measurable progress for women farmers beyond participation counts.
Learn more: https://t.co/1iXFXQkIFI

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New @GAFSPfund grants will support smallholder farmers in low-income countries as global hunger nears record highs and development aid faces historic decline.

https://t.co/XsLHhf2T8t

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💡 Innovation needs 💵investment.

Honduran farmers supported by GAFSP transformed their operations with new water technologies, turning climate vulnerability into a competitive advantage: https://t.co/hKCH2q2NIZ

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In 🇹🇱Timor-Leste, GAFSP's SAPIP programme helped farmers move beyond slash-and-burn methods to sustainable practices that boost yields while preserving vital forest ecosystems: https://t.co/nwDP6rnfNv

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🌍 21.4 million people have been supported through GAFSP's country-led grants

💥 Placing national priorities first, ensuring food security investments align with local needs & government strategies.

Learn more: https://t.co/dRFFjarydi

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In 🇧🇩 Bangladesh's DRAIFNS project, GAFSP is providing $20 million to support farmers in 3 climate hotspots, diversifying crops and improving market access 🌿

https://t.co/7ked1gtqyZ

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🏦 The biggest bottleneck for smallholder farmers? Access to finance, preventing investment in land ownership & technology. GAFSP's civil society representative Mathabo Tsepa explains why farmer inclusion is crucial for effective collaboration: https://t.co/FOuQlBED8g

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🇳🇵 Building nutrition systems that work:

21,000 women reached through 861 Nutrition Groups in GAFSP & @WorldBank's FANSEP project. Discover how mothers changed what their families ate, growing crops for better health and breaking cycles of malnutrition: https://t.co/9M5Q4IynJK

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The GAFSP Knowledge Forum is well underway, hosted by our partners at @FAO 🌱 Nearly 100 practitioners from 40+ projects across 4 continents have gathered in Rome to share practical solutions to advance food security and strengthen smallholder farmer livelihoods worldwide.

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At @Clim_Eat's High-Level Panel for a Just Rural Transition, GAFSP's @GabrielFerrero1 highlighted how green transitions can solve farmers' fuel & fertilizer cost worries over the long term. Read the @Devex piece by @taniakaras.

https://t.co/QajWFwlEq9

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“Our families are healthy, our crops are clean, and our yields have doubled," says a Tanzanian farmer involved in GAFSP's $33M TANIPAC project, which is empowering farmers with the skills to identify & reduce aflatoxin contamination through safer storage: https://t.co/Ubuj9YGSWi

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In Kyrgyzstan, one of Central Asia's most climate-vulnerable regions, 70-year-old farmer Urinisa struggled with low yields during winters. Now, GAFSP & @WFP support farmers with modern greenhouses & resilient seeds, boosting incomes tenfold.
Read more 👉 https://t.co/Vy2XUibc7D

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🇭🇹 In Haiti, Yvelt Paul learned livestock breeding through GAFSP's PARAGA project — and that goat helped pay his children's school fees. Learn how farmer training creates ripple effects beyond the field: https://t.co/DZnbHAVJ3P

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After the 2024 dry spell scorched 1.4M+ hectares of crops in Wa-Nanbongo, Ghana, GAFSP & @AfDB_Group stepped in with a solar-powered borehole.
Now farmers can irrigate fields year-round, generating high yields even in unpredictable weather.

Learn more 👇🏾
https://t.co/YPxZrPDbzZ