How We Are Making a Difference
Improved agriculture and food systems can raise incomes, generate employment, reduce local food prices, and provide people with diverse and nutritious diets. GAFSP responds to demand on the ground, enabling farmers and countries to customize investments to meet multiple needs, with profound impacts both within and beyond the agriculture sector.
20
million people reached
Every day, we help empower millions of farmers. More than 20 million rural people, including nearly 7 million women, have received direct support through our projects.
$2.5
billion in financing
Our portfolio includes over $1.5 billion in grant financing to countries, $476 million to support private sector development, and $47 million to farmers' or producer organizations.
100%
of projects address climate
All public sector projects include adaptation or mitigation co-benefits efforts, supporting critical agricultural interventions that boost farmers’ climate resilience.
Results Highlights
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Impact Stories
Rwanda’s Greenhouses Bring Growth
Despite strong economic growth and falling poverty levels, Rwanda faces significant challenges in meeting food demands and food security. Farmer and father, Jean-Paul Kubwimana, defied these challenges, increasing his income by 15 times. Driving past a greenhouse full of healthy tomatoes, he decided to investigate how greenhouse tomatoes could benefit his family.
New Seeds for Sustainability
Farmer groups in Bangladesh adapt to climate change with new, high-quality seeds. We aimed to open a new window of technology for farmers, but we wanted to adopt a bottom-up approach. Read the full story to learn more.
Mali's Young Entrepreneurs Get a Fresh Start
The GAFSP-funded Inclusion of Rural Youth in Poultry and Aquaculture Value Chains in Mali project works with CNOP in Mali to support rural youth in creating income-generating activities that foster food and nutrition security. The young entrepreneurs have been provided with technical training, including how to set up an organization, and how to manage the finances for poultry and fish farming value-chains.
Bringing Water back to Honduras’ Dry Corridor
Since 2017, across 25 municipalities of the Dry Corridor, the US$30 GAFSP-supported project has been implemented to bring food and nutrition security to Honduras’ driest areas, reaching more than 12,000 households through the installation of water irrigation technology and climate-resilient agriculture, enabling farmers to provide more nutritious foods for their families as well as for the market.