Tunisia and the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Friday, February 3, 2023, a loan agreement worth 80 million dollars to contribute to financing the “emergency food security support project” in the country.

The ratification decree was published in Decree No. 2023-90 of 3 February 2023, ratifying this loan agreement. The loan agreement was signed by the Director General of the Regional Development and Delivery Bureau of services for North Africa from the African Development Bank in Tunis, Mohamed El Azizi and the Minister of Economy and Planning, Samir Saïed, on the Tunisian side.

This project will serve to improve food self-sufficiency, by ensuring the supply of soft wheat, barley and fertilizer. It makes it possible to strengthen the resilience of the cereal sector to external shocks and climate change. It will also improve the production of these products and basic fodder in milk production, as well as the development of the cereal sector and its digitization, while strengthening institutional capacities in this sector.