The World Bank issued a press release on May 20, 2021 in which it approved a $10 million funding program to support small scale Lebanese farmers through agricultural inputs and animal feed in order to assist them in sustaining their plant and animal production and contributing to food security. In detail, the program is expected to help some 27,600 farmers that were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in planting & harvesting delays. The World Bank mentioned that it will also grant some 1 million animal vaccine doses to contribute to the annual livestock vaccination campaign. According to the World Bank, the Lebanese agriculture sector was seriously hit by the economic & financial crisis that struck the country in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the press release noted that the lack of credit facilities, coupled with the currency devaluation and the capital control measures have hampered the payment to suppliers in the sector and consequently agriculture production. The World Bank stated that small scale farmers will be eligible to receive 2 types of vouchers of $300 each to procure essential inputs for agricultural production, namely vouchers for crop production inputs (fertilizers, seeds, seedlings) and vouchers for livestock production inputs (mostly feed), with all transactions between input suppliers and farmers processed in US dollars through the vouchers. The funding program will be implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Lebanon (FAO) under the guidance of the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture and in compliance with the World Bank’s policies. According to the press release, the World Bank will closely monitor the proper implementation of the program in order to establish strict compliance with the principles of transparency, fairness and efficiency. The FAO will be in charge of identifying and selecting input suppliers in accordance with a set of agreed upon criteria, verifying and validating that the input suppliers will receive the funds and distribute the agriculture inputs to eligible beneficiaries once the vouchers are submitted. Finally, the press release added that farmers are to submit their applications to the program through a national campaign that will be launched by the Ministry of Agriculture in cooperation with the FAO.