Germany pledges additional $11 million to FAO; supporting interregional biofuel development project

The German national government announced that it had increase its commitment to funding FAO by $11 million for a variety of food security programs, including an FAO project supporting interregional biofuel development. Another of the anti-hunger projects that the German funding will support is a seed enterprise development project in Sierra Leone.

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