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The Global Food Security Response (GFSR)
The Global Food Security Response (GFSR) is a U.S. Government initiative intended to promote sustainable food security in Africa. The strategy of the GFRS is to work with players in the regional value chain for staple foods, processed, nutritious and therapeutic foods to expand markets for farmers, traders and processors so as to ensure timely availability of food and unimpeded movement of food from surplus to deficit areas. The GRFS seeks to:
- Improve the enabling environment for regional trade in staples as a result of improved and harmonized policies and regulations and their implementation
- Improve regional trade in staples (primarily maize, beans and pulses, root tubers)
- Reduce time and transaction costs to move goods and other staples from areas of supply to areas of demand within countries and across the region efficiently
- Link small farmers to efficient market information systems and markets
- Improve market opportunities for processing firms involved in the value chain for high-nutrient therapeutic foods and specialty foods
- Accelerate the participation of the ultra poor in rural growth so as to improve their livelihoods..
