FAO’s proposal for a Global Food Import Financing Facility (FIFF)

This informal briefing seeks to (i) provide an overview of the facility, its basic nature as an emergency measure, the overall costs of the facility under different eligibility assumptions, as well as the proposed credit conditionality, (ii) discuss the possibility and the limits of extending the idea of an import financing facility to fertilizer and other agricultural inputs and (iii), define the role of FAO and delineate it from the initiative proposed by other international organizations.