Implementation: piloting and scaling
Step 4 turns investment-ready solutions into real-world impact at scale. Promising innovations are implemented, tested, and scaled across the agrifood system through coordinated action, de-risking mechanisms, and continuous learning.
This step ensures that transformation does not remain at the pilot level. It enables solutions to be tested, scaled and institutionalized, creating lasting, system-wide impact supported by finance, policy and continuous learning.
🧪 Pilot and test solutions
ASTA supports real-world testing to assess: technical performance, scalability potential, SDG and sustainability impacts, and stakeholder trust and adoption.
📈 Scale what works
Proven solutions are scaled through government systems, financial institutions, lead private sector actors and value chain champions.
🔗 Ensure system-wide coordination
Implementation is aligned across the value chain, from farm to market, reducing fragmentation and strengthening integration.
🛠️ Enable scaling conditions
ASTA provides catalytic tools to unlock scale: de-risking finance instruments (e.g. guarantees, collateral facilities), technology demonstration and adoption, technical assistance and global expertise and governance mechanisms (contracts, coordination platforms).