Global Food Response Program (GFRP)

The Global Food Crisis Response Program (GFRP) has benefited 65.9 million people in 49 countries. Of those resources, Bank-funded support to the GFRP benefited 57.3 million people, including support for social protection programs estimated to have reached 13.9 million people and support for short- and medium-term agricultural interventions estimated to have reached 8.7 million farm households.

Results achieved as of December 2011 include:(1)The Food Price Crisis Response Core Multi-Donor Trust Fund of the Global Food Crisis Response Program (GFRP) improved the productivity of 74,457 smallholder rice farmers in Cambodia, providing 4,867 tons of fertiliser, 1,446 tons of seed at a 50 percent discount, and lifting the ban on rice exports. This increased the average rice yield from 2.6 to 3.0 tons per hectare; (2) The Fund also implemented social protection projects, such as food and cash transfers, to mitigate the impact of higher food prices on incomes. For example, 342,835 people received food transfers in Cambodia, and 11,717 people were employed as part of cash/food-for-work programs in Sierra Leone and Cambodia; (3) 65,861 children benefitted from school feeding programs in Cambodia and a community nutrition program in Senegal provided monthly growth monitoring for children under two, nutrition education for mothers, provision of iron and vitamin A supplements, and de-worming treatments; and (4) rural roads to improve rural connectivity were built, and agricultural land acreage was expanded in Sierra Leone and South Sudan.