ODA Spending

How much ODA does France allocate to agriculture?

How is French agricultural ODA changing?

Agricultural ODA decreased by 35% in 2023 from 2022 levels.

How does France allocate agricultural ODA?

Bilateral Spending

In 2023, 48% of France’s ODA for agriculture was provided bilaterally. The bilateral ODA towards agriculture included 1% of funding as earmarked funding through multilaterals.

Multilateral Spending and Commitments

In 2023, France channeled 51% of its ODA to agriculture through multilateral organizations.

Funding & Policy outlook

What is the current government's outlook on agricultural ODA?

The Presidential Council for Partnerships which took place in April 2025, highlighted 10 objectives of which one is to strengthen food sovereignty, notably in Africa. Note this terminology (vs. the previously used term of food security) points to providing agricultural solutions to enable sustainable food production.

France hosted the "Nutrition for Growth" Summit in Paris on March 27-28, 2025.

This summit mobilized the international community, including private actors and civil society, in favor of nutrition and to achieve the sustainable development goals set by the UN Agenda 2030. The summit was positioned at the intersection of food systems and health. The organizers of the Summit announced that US$27.55 billion has been committed, above the previous edition in Tokyo. France committed EUR750 million ( US$790 million), of which EUR500 million ( US$527 million) was from AFD and EUR250 million ( US$263 million) for programmed food aid (multilateral funding through MFA.

According to France’s International Strategy for Food Security, Nutrition, and Sustainable Agriculture (2019-2024), France has five main goals:

• Strengthening global governance of food security and nutrition;
• Developing sustainable agricultural and food systems (agroecology);
• Strengthening France’s action on nutrition, focusing especially on malnutrition in young children and pregnant and breastfeeding women;
• Restructuring sustainable agri-food sectors to promote job creation in rural areas with a focus on youth; and
• Strengthening food assistance actions for vulnerable populations and improving resilience to food insecurity, whether in emergency or chronic food insecurity contexts.

In October 2023, during World Food Day, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs made a series of announcements concerning nutrition initiatives:

• The disbursement of EUR1 billion (US$1.1 billion) for food security in 2022, as part of its 2019-2024 international strategy for food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture;
• The organization of the Nutrition for Growth Summit in 2024 or 2025, which aims to mobilize political and financial support for nutrition; and
• The organization of the 13^th IFAD replenishment, co-organized with Angola, which aims to mobilize funding for the organization for the next three years and to which France already committed US$150 million.

On December 6, 2023, during COP28 representatives from Germany, the Netherlands, and France, launched the Team Europe Initiative on Deforestation-free Value Chains and pledged an initial EUR70 million (US$76 million) to the initiative.

In March 2024, the French Ministry of Finance and Economy announced a contribution by FFEM and Conservation International of EUR2.5 million (US$3 million) to support biodiversity and respond to climate related crises in Amazonia.

In response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Macron announced the launch of the Food and Agriculture Resilience Mission initiative in March 2022, alongside the EU, G7, and AU to tackle food insecurity in vulnerable countries. In 2023, France allocated US$85 million to FARM .

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