To combat soaring food prices the government of Sierra Leone, supported by FAO, created the National Agriculture Response Programme, which provides training assistance to groups like this one across the country.

Support to Operation Feed The Nation - GCP/SIL/024/GER: Acceleration in the implementation of the community-based food security activities of Operation Feed the Nation, to broaden its scope to enable trained groups of farmers to invest in assets which add value to their production, and to begin to address the learning and nutrition requirements of school children.

Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) in Sierra Leone - SPFP/SIL/2301:
-Preparatoy Phase for Community-based Extension and Capacity-Building Programme (CECP);
-Provide direct exposure to the principles and methodologies of Farmer Field School (FFS) to a selected group of people from Sierra Leone by facilitating their visiting of ongoing Farmer Field School programmes in other African countries and establish linkages with FAO specialists in FAO Regional Office for Africa;
-Training of the initial batch of staff and farmer facilitators;
-Testing the methodology in a first batch of Farmer Field Schools;
-Establishment of a functioning Special Programme for Food Security National Team.