The ASTA programme drives agrifood systems transformation through integrated bundles of catalytic interventions. These are built around three mutually reinforcing ingredients: partnerships, innovation, and blended finance.
Transforming agrifood systems through ASTA’s structured, context-specific approach and integrated programme features
Explore ASTA programme features:
Scaling and learning for systems-wide impact
ASTA goes beyond improving individual value chains by designing interventions that create broader agrifood systems transformation. Through co-design with national partners, ASTA promotes innovations that can scale across sectors, strengthen shared support systems and generate wider economic, environmental and social benefits.
Continuous learning, impact tracking and global knowledge exchange help capture evidence, improve implementation and replicate successful solutions across countries—making transformation more sustainable, resilient and long-lasting.
Digging deep into systems-based solutions
ASTA designs systems-based solutions to address the structural constraints that limit agrifood systems transformation. These solutions are built around four interconnected features that enable sustainable and scalable change:
1. Partnerships create alignment and help coordinate action across public and private actors.
2. Innovation introduces new business models, technologies and institutional arrangements that improve how agrifood systems function.
3. Blended finance mobilizes and de-risks investment to accelerate implementation and long-term sustainability.
4. Scaling and learning ensure that solutions generate spillover effects, adapt over time, and enable replication across value chains, territories and countries.
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