Feed the Future Focus Countries

Feed the Future Focus Countries
We are prioritize and concentrating our efforts and resources on Focus Counties where the Feed the Future principles can best be realized in practice. Those principles were first articulated at the G8 summit in L'Aquila and endorsed unanimously as the Rome Principles for Sustainable Food Security. The principles are as follows:

--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.

Focus Countries are selected based on five factors related to the needs and opportunities for fulfilling the Feed the Future principles: Level of need, opportunity for partnership, potential for agricultural-led growth, opportunity for regional synergies, and resource availability. For a more detailed explanation please see the Feed the Future Guide. Potential and selected focus counties must demonstrate that they will follow the Feed the Future Principles by producing documents detailing how they will implement their programs.

We will continue to provide assistance for agricultural development to some other counties where the overall political and investment environment may not be conducive for a major scale-up in investments, or where other donors are playing a major role in food security. In these counties, we commit to align our programs with our objectives and to invest according to Feed the Future principles to the extent possible.

To read more about Focus Countries in general please read the Country Fact Sheets LINK.