Our activities

Our innovation support framework covers a broad portfolio of activities, structured across vertical and horizontal dimensions. These areas of work reinforce each other and converge in the co-creation of national innovation pathways, enabling countries to navigate complexity and drive resilient, sustainable and inclusive agrifood system transformations. 

Vertical dimensions 

• Integrated, co-created policy, governance and decision-making – developing future-informed, evidence-based frameworks and innovative governance approaches. 
• Mission-oriented Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) – anticipating and addressing emerging policy areas such as agroecology, nature-based solutions and urban/peri-urban agriculture. 
• Holistic agrifood innovation capacities – building technical, functional and institutional capacities at all levels, including novel innovation services and multistakeholder approaches. 

Horizontal dimensions 

• Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) – creating feedback loops that guide innovation, adaptation and impact. 
• Multistakeholder innovation approaches – engaging diverse actors across agrifood systems to co-create effective and inclusive solutions. 
• Strategic foresight – anticipating trends, drivers and scenarios to inform anticipatory governance and future-proof policies and planning.