Feed the Future (FTF) is the President’s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative
to renew the U.S. Government commitment to sustainably reduce hunger and poverty
and to accelerate progress toward the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1).
The U.S. Government's commitment to catalyze agricultural-led growth will raise
the incomes of the poor, increase the availability of food, and reduce undernutrition
through sustained, long-term development progress. FTF is a comprehensive approach,
coupling both agriculture and nutrition interventions that stands alongside the
ongoing commitment to humanitarian assistance that alleviates the immediate impacts
of hunger and undernutrition.
At the G-8 Summit in July 2009, President Obama pledged to provide at least $3.5
billion over three years (FY 2010 to FY 2012) to attack the root causes of global
hunger through accelerated agricultural development and improved nutrition. The
U.S. Government commitment leveraged more than $18 billion in support from other
donors, creating the financial capacity to significantly reduce the number of people
living in extreme poverty and suffering from hunger and undernutrition. Through
FTF, the U.S. Government works across a number of agencies that include the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Treasury, MCC, and the Peace Corps, and in partnership
with a set of host countries and other donors, both public and private, to achieve
meaningful and sustained impact.
FTF uses management approaches that are effective in low-income countries: developing
strategies and interventions in coordination with stakeholders, committing to sound
investments through reliable partners, and adjusting program elements based on analyses
of performance reports. Experience has shown that in order to meet FTF objectives,
host governments must be committed to the effort. Therefore, FTF will focus on countries
that have placed high priority on poverty and hunger reduction and have adopted
Country Investment Plans to combat those problems. To this end, FTF is grounded
in five key principles:
- Invest in country-owned plans
that support results-based programs and partnerships, so that assistance is tailored
to the needs of individual countries through consultative processes and plans that
are developed and led by country governments
- Strengthen strategic coordination
to mobilize and align the resources of the diverse partners and stakeholders – including
the private sector and civil society – that are needed to achieve our common objectives
- Ensure a comprehensive approach
that accelerates inclusive agricultural-led growth and improves nutrition, while
also bridging humanitarian relief and sustainable development efforts
- Leverage the benefits of multilateral
institutions so that priorities and approaches are aligned, investments are
coordinated, and financial and technical assistance gaps are filled
- Deliver on sustained and accountable
commitments, phasing-in investments responsibly to ensure returns, using
benchmarks and targets to measure progress toward shared goals, and holding ourselves
and other stakeholders publicly accountable for achieving results.
For additional details please
visit the FTF website and
read the FTF Guide.
Click
here to view the full FTF dataset. You can also view the
USAID website and the
Department of State website.
Foreign Assistance Levels by Fiscal Year
Feed the Future
