Global Agriculture and Food Security Program Partners Announce Inaugural Grants
June 23, 2010
June 23, 2010
WASHINGTON, June 23 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release:
Partners in the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), a new fund to tackle global hunger and poverty, this week announced that five developing countries will receive the fund's first grants totaling $224 million. The grants - approved for Bangladesh, Haiti, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Togo - will help each country increase food security, raise rural incomes and reduce poverty . . .
Partners in the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), a new fund to tackle global hunger and poverty, this week announced that five developing countries will receive the fund's first grants totaling $224 million. The grants - approved for Bangladesh, Haiti, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Togo - will help each country increase food security, raise rural incomes and reduce poverty . . .