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Civil Society-Led Report Underscores Best Practices, Lessons and Opportunities for Scaling
Civil Society Partnership for GAFSP provides insights and data from site visits to smallholder farming communities
GAFSP Opens $163M Grants Program to Bolster Food Security for World’s Poorest Farmers
New grants will support smallholder farmers in low-income countries as global hunger nears record highs and development aid faces historic decline.
When the Shocks Keep Coming, Farmer Cooperatives Are the Only Buffer That Works
The shocks keep coming. The question is whether we help smallholder farmers face them together — or leave them to face them alone.
GAFSP Announces $38 Million in Grants to Support Smallholder Farmers Across Africa, Asia, and the Americas
New GAFSP grant financing supports 16 producer organization-led projects across 27 low-income countries.
Equality in Ag: Closing the Gender Gap in Farming Essential to Global Food and Economic Security
Closing the gender gap in farming is critical to global food and economic security, with evidence showing that equal access to land, finance, and inputs could improve yields by up to 30%.
Six Ways GAFSP Can Make a Difference in 2026
As we enter the new year, we at GAFSP celebrate the millions of smallholder farmers around the world working to strengthen food security, nutrition and rural livelihoods.
GAFSP Case Studies in Haiti, Honduras and Senegal Highlighted in UVM Report on Agroecological Food Systems
A new report from the University of Vermont’s Institute for Agroecology highlights promising examples of Public Development Banks integrating agroecological principles into their investment strategies, including case studies from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program.
GAFSP Steering Committee Approves 2030 Strategic Plan
The Steering Committee Meeting of GAFSP announced the formal approval of its 2030 Strategic Plan, marking a new milestone in the Program’s 15-year history of tackling hunger and rural poverty in low-income countries.
Catalyzing Africa’s Food and Nutrition Security: How the GAFSP–AfDB Partnership is Reforming Agri-Finance, Resilience and Inclusion
A new wave of catalytic, climate-smart investments from the African Development Bank and GAFSP is transforming drought-hit communities across Africa into resilient hubs of food production and economic opportunity.
COP30 Is Our Chance to Achieve Resilient Global Food Security—By Empowering Smallholders
This year’s UN climate talks in Brazil offer a pivotal chance to change course. To meet global climate and developmental goals, we must put smallholders at the center of climate action.
Banking on Smallholders: Planting the Next Seeds of Africa’s Food Secure Future
Across Africa, smallholder farmers produce as much as 80 percent of the continent’s food. Yet, they remain among its most under-financed producers. For decades, access to affordable, suitable finance has been the missing ingredient for scaling climate-smart, productive farming.
African Development Bank Group Receives First Funding Allocation From Global Agriculture and Food Security Program’s New Financing Window
An estimated 1.5 million smallholder farmers across Africa will benefit from a new facility, which will unlock more than US$200 million.