Press Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on Food Security

In response to that strong commitment, as the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program was created at the World Bank, more than 30 African countries completed the process of creating country plans and investment programs, many of them achieving the target they set for themselves of 10 percent of local resources being invested in the agriculture sector. And many of the donor partners coming out of the L’Aquila summit met and have been on track to meet their commitments made in that setting.

As a result of those efforts, we’ve seen real progress: agricultural productivity growth in our own target Feed the Future countries is eight times that of the global average. And that extra agricultural product has protected millions of people from needing food aid during times of emergency crisis like we saw during the drought—severe drought in the Horn of Africa last year.