Around the world, people have adapted to ongoing global crises, and we at the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) are no exception. Yet GAFSP’s mandate today is more relevant than ever. Indeed, demand for GAFSP funding reached new highs of over $1 billion in our last Call for Proposals – ten times what GAFSP was […]
Dear Donor Ministers, We, the undersigned, are raising the alarm on the impact of COVID-19 on food security in low-income countries, especially on small-scale family farmers and producers, rural women, and youth. The COVID-19 health crisis risks becoming a global food and nutrition crisis if governments do not act now. Global hunger has been slowly […]
Coronavirus has been called “the great equalizer,” but that could not be further from reality. The COVID-19 crisis is exposing growing inequalities within and between countries. Unless governments act swiftly, what started as a health crisis will soon turn into a food crisis. Global food security trends were alarming even before the pandemic threw the world into chaos. After […]
Reposted from Nutrition Connect In blog 30 in our series on opportunities for building back better food systems and nutrition, Esther Penunia, Secretary-General of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), discusses the challenges faced by smallholder farms across Asia, and how they are working to overcome them. She calls on governments and […]
In 2017, the GAFSP-funded Food Security and Agriculture Productivity Project (FSAPP) was launched. It aims to increase agricultural productivity and enhance market access for farmers in five districts in southwest Bhutan, with 52,000 farmers organized in 300 farmers groups. Watch the video below to see the updates on the project.
This statement is originally published by SDG2 Advocacy Hub. COVID-19 is having an unprecedented impact on the world. Before this pandemic, there were already more than 820 million chronically hungry people globally. COVID-19 has put food right at the front of everyone’s minds as we hear about possible harvest labour shortages in Germany or see […]
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people’s access to food with a high likelihood of moving from a health crisis to a global food crisis very soon. Family farmers are among the first to be dramatically affected. Farmers’ markets have been closed in many countries to reduce the spread of the virus; hence family farmers can’t […]
From July-December 2019, the Lao Farmer Network (LFN), member of the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) in Laos and national implementing agency of MTCP2/AFOSP project, piloted an organic soya production and processing in collaboration with the Agriculture and Food Nutrition (AFN), a project funded by the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP). The pilot project […]
