Global Food Security Strategy Technical Guidance - Increased Sustainable Agricultural Productivity

Increased agricultural productivity is a key driver of wider agriculture-led economic growth and resilience in many regions heavily burdened by food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty, and it’s essential to achieving Feed the Future’s objectives, which are guided by the U.S. Government’s Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS). Greater agricultural productivity can increase food availability and affordability, improve profitability on the farm and across the food system, and build household and ecological assets to bolster resilience against market and environmental shocks. It also spurs economic growth, particularly of the local economy, and creates new onand off-farm employment opportunities, including for women and young people.1 Sustainable and inclusive agricultural productivity requires long-term stewardship of natural resources, human capital (particularly by removing barriers that disadvantage women), and social networks.