FAO Investment Centre

Agriculture and food security trust fund launched

22/04/2010

FAO welcomed the launch of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, a new multidonor trust fund managed by the World Bank to improve food security and incomes in low-income countries through assistance to agriculture. The new mechanism is designed to address the underfunding of country and regional agriculture and food security investment plans, making aid more predictable in the fight against hunger.

More information at: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/41451/icode/