Meeting with the World Bank Delegation: We Will Support the Agricultural Industries Sector

The Minister of Economy and Trade in the caretaker government, Amin Salam, held a meeting with a delegation from the World Bank visiting Lebanon from Washington to discuss enhancing food security for the Lebanese people amid the ongoing economic crisis. The discussions focused on the wheat loan and the Green Agricultural Food Transformation Project for Economic Recovery (GATE). Salam stated, "We have succeeded in fortifying food security and ensuring uninterrupted wheat supplies under the most difficult conditions, from the Ukrainian-Russian war to the absence of silos, to attempts at smuggling and stealing wheat." He added, "We are now working on revitalizing the economy by supporting the agricultural sector and small and medium enterprises; this is a development project par excellence." The development goal of the Green Agricultural Food Transformation Project for Economic Recovery (GATE) in Lebanon is to improve the resilience of farmers and small and medium enterprises in the Lebanese agricultural food sector.