The Facility for Resilient Food Systems

About this project

The Facility for Resilient Food Systems aims to enhance people’s food security, food system resilience and well-being through improved food availability and food affordability in developing countries. The Facility leverages Canada’s concessional finance alongside the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to mobilize private capital and accelerate the response to the global food security crisis. The Facility rapidly addresses critical financing needs and disruptions to agricultural production and agri-food supply chains. It makes strategic investments in private sector-led solutions to build more diversified, productive and resilient local food systems in the long term. The Facility also provides advisory and technical services to financial intermediaries, agribusinesses and farmers along the food value chain to improve their long-term financial sustainability, gender responsiveness and resilience to climate risks so they can continue to deliver much needed food to vulnerable communities. In doing so, the Facility contributes to increasing the resilience of food systems to future shocks in developing countries and reducing the number of people at risk from food insecurity, including women and the most vulnerable. Projects supported by the Facility might include but are not limited to: (i) working capital and longer-term financing to resume food production in areas affected by conflict; (ii) financing to help diversify production to new origins; (iii) investments in warehous…

Published by

Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) · Government

Countries

Ukraine, Congo - Kinshasa, Sierra Leone, Cameroon

Sectors

Agricultural financial services

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Main focusClimate mitigation · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Also contributes

Published by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 2 Nov 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: CA-3-P011856003.

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