Second Additional Financing to Tunisia Emergency Food Security Response Project

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The AF to the PRUSA parent project constitutes a new step for World Bank engagement on food security and agriculture in Tunisia. It will include: (a) short term emergency support for wheat imports in response to the unprecedented drought in a tight macro-fiscal context, and (b) activities to secure next harvests (such as barley supply for animal feed and support to seed production), as well as increase the resilience of grain producers confronted to climate change and water stress (miscellaneous activities to communicate with stakeholders, improve knowledge of the grain value chain, digitize key operations, etc.). The AF would require a short-term extension of the project Closing Date. As discussed with GoT, it would set the stage for possible World Bank complementary support to increase the resilience of Tunisian smallholder farmers in the face of climate and market stress, so that Bank’s response is not limited to short term support (next three harvests) but also fosters deeper structural changes that are needed to modernize the Tunisian food system; this is fully consistent with the conclusions of the Tunisia-CCDR and comes in alignment with the new Global Challenge Program on Food and Nutrition Security.