Building Partnerships for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

The World Economic Forum's guide outlines a multistakeholder approach to agricultural transformation, detailing an 8-step framework for country-led action. Based on experience in 19 countries, the model emphasizes locally-owned, market-driven partnerships that integrate full value chains to improve food security, environmental sustainability, and economic opportunity.

• The New Vision for Agriculture (NVA) initiative has supported partnerships in 19 countries across Africa, South-East Asia, India, and Latin America, mobilizing over $10.5 billion in investment commitments, with $1.9 billion implemented, benefiting 9.6 million farmers.
• The NVA Country Partnership Model is based on five guiding principles: it must be locally-owned and aligned with country goals, market-driven with private sector leadership, multistakeholder and inclusive, holistic across value chains, and globally connected.
• The guide proposes an 8-step framework for action divided into three phases: Design (Engage, Align, Structure), Implement (Plan, Implement, Advance), and Adapt and Scale (Scale, Review).
• Successful partnerships require a specific leadership structure consisting of a Direction-Setting Group for governance, Working Groups to execute specific projects, and a Secretariat to provide neutral coordination and administrative support.
• The model advocates for 'precompetitive' collaboration, where competing companies pool resources to address systemic gaps—such as infrastructure or farmer training—that are too large for a single entity to solve, while maintaining their own competitive business agendas.
• Scaling impact is achieved through three primary strategies: expanding breadth (reaching new farmers or geographies), expanding depth (adding new services for existing farmers), and institutionalizing (changing laws, regulations, and organizational behaviors).
• The NVA defines a global impact framework to track progress across three dimensions, using indicators such as actual dollars invested, number of farmers engaged by gender, percentage change in yield per hectare, and percentage change in farmer net income.

APA

World Economic Forum (2016). Building Partnerships for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/IP/2016/NVA/NVAGuidetoCountryLevelAction.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Building Partnerships for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security. 2016. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/IP/2016/NVA/NVAGuidetoCountryLevelAction.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2016building, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Building Partnerships for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2016}, month = jan, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/IP/2016/NVA/NVAGuidetoCountryLevelAction.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }