SIERRA LEONE
ACF co-chair Sierra Leone is accelerating agrifood reform via its flagship Feed Salone initiative, driving rapid reductions in food insecurity.
vision
‘’Three years into Feed Salone, we grow more of the rice we eat, import far fewer eggs and onions, and invest four times more of our budget in agriculture than in 2023.’’
Henry Musa Kpaka
Minister of Agriculture and Food Security
Sierra Leone
Highlights
Sierra Leone is transforming its food system at pace, with severe food insecurity more than halving, from 28% in September 2023 to 13% in July 2025, as its ‘Feed Salone’ initiative expanded rice, onions, eggs and maize production. Rice self-sufficiency has risen from 68% in 2023 to 73% in 2025, and onion imports fell by 82% in 2025 as local production expanded.
Sierra Leone is building resilience using innovation: its first parametric weather-index insurance pilot led to a National Agricultural Insurance Policy, validated in September 2026. A new monitoring platform, developed with IDinsigh , combines geospatial tools, dashboards and an AI-powered ‘Ask a Metric’ function, while the digital farmer registry is being linked to national identification for more accurate targeting, with 300,000 farmers targeted for registration by 2027.
Sierra Leone has mobilised more than USD 1 billion in pledges for Feed Salone, 43% of it already programmed into projects, and has put real fiscal weight behind the transformatio
: agriculture’s share of the national budget rose from 2% in 2023 to 8% in 2025.
Reports and resources
2026 progress snapshot
- HIGHLIGHTS
- Headline Areas of Progress in 2026
- Country context
- KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN 2025/26
- LEADERSHIP IN FOOD SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION:
DRIVING GLOBAL CHANGE
2025 progress snapshot
Section 1: National Food System Snapshot
Section 2: Membership Criteria Progress
Section 3: Priority Action Areas Highlights
Section 4: Collaborations
Section 5: Priorities for Further Work
Section 6: Priority Areas for Investment
2024 progress snapshot
Section 1: National Food System Snapshot
Section 2: Membership Criteria Progress
Section 3: Priority Action Areas Highlights
Section 4: Additional Highlights
Section 5: Collaborations
Section 6: Priorities for Further Work
Section 7: Priority Areas for Investment
2025 progress framework
1. Country Background
2. Progress against commitments
3. Investment in Food System Transformation
4. Looking to the future/Priorities for the next 12 months
Voice of progress
IN CONVERSATION WITH
KIPTIEU F. DEBS
Owner of Sanctuary Farms, Sierra Leone