The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) announced the formal approval of its 2030 Strategic Plan during its December 2025 Steering Committee Meeting in Rome, marking a significant milestone in the Program’s 15-year history of addressing hunger and rural poverty in low-income countries. The new plan operationalizes GAFSP’s Vision 2030, aiming to support locally led, transformative solutions at a time when global food and nutrition security faces unprecedented challenges, with up to 720 million people experiencing hunger in 2024 amid conflict, limited public resources, and multiple shocks affecting food systems.
The 2030 Strategic Plan positions GAFSP as a ready-to-use financing platform that accelerates and scales innovations for agrifood systems transformation. It focuses on empowering smallholder farmers, agribusiness entrepreneurs, and rural communities while acting as a connector between governments, farmer organizations, and private sector actors, an incentive setter for innovative solutions, and a de-risker for larger-scale investments in vulnerable countries. Over the next five years, the Program will aim to enhance co-benefits for rural communities by supporting food and nutrition security, climate resilience, natural resource protection, and the inclusion of women and youth in projects.
GAFSP will also mobilize additional public and private resources, providing smallholders with improved knowledge, financial tools, and market access. Under the new Strategic Plan, the Program plans a country-led call for proposals in 2026 and a producer organization-led call in 2027. It will continue supporting investments in producer organizations and blended finance innovations, linking these efforts with the Private Sector Window managed by the International Finance Corporation, with an expected mobilization of $590 million across its activities.
The Steering Committee Meeting also welcomed new civil society organization representatives, including members from Action Contre La Faim, the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions, and the Samoa Farmers Association. Their inclusion reflects GAFSP’s commitment to ensuring civil society voices, including those of smallholder producers and marginalized groups, are integrated into the Program’s governance and decision-making processes.
Since its establishment by the G20 in 2010, GAFSP has deployed over $2.4 billion in grants and concessional finance to more than 320 projects, benefiting over 30 million people in the world’s poorest countries. With the 2030 Strategic Plan, GAFSP is poised to strengthen partnerships and deepen its impact on resilient, sustainable, and inclusive agrifood systems in low-income countries over the next five years.
