Results

Feed the Future Performance Targets

For more than a decade, Feed the Future–the U.S. government’s flagship global food security initiative–has worked to end hunger, poverty and malnutrition and build sustainable, resilient food systems. Led by USAID, the Initiative has helped reduce extreme poverty by 19 percent, hunger by 30 percent, and child stunting by 26 percent in the areas where we work.

However, hunger still plagues 735 million people around the world and our challenge to create sustainable food systems will only get harder as the climate crisis deepens. As Feed the Future evolves to meet these challenges, we have set five new targets that will guide our investments and help us achieve our overarching goals of reducing poverty, hunger, and malnutrition.

The new targets focus on key areas that we know will be critical to sustainable food systems now and in the future: addressing climate change, supporting and empowering women in agriculture, leveraging the private sector, and bolstering healthy diets.

• $7 billion in annual sales by producers and firms receiving USG assistance
• $876 million in new private sector investment leveraged by the USG to support food security and nutrition
• Gender parity in access to finance among FTF program participants
• 7.3 million cultivated hectares under climate adaptation/climate risk management practices and technologies with USG assistance
• More than half of women in Feed the Future Zones of Influence consume a nutritious diet