Who we are 

For almost 60 years, the FAO Investment Centre has helped countries make more and better agrifood investments to reduce poverty, hunger and malnutrition, improve rural livelihoods and protect the environment.

Working in over 130 countries, the Centre provides a full suite of investment support solutions.

Partnerships 

Creating a world where all people have regular access to enough nourishing food to lead active, healthy lives cannot be done alone.

We partner with governments, international financing institutions, national and international organizations, the private sector, research institutions, academia and producer organizations to improve the quality and quantity of agrifood investment.

More and better investment

We apply the best of FAO’s technical and policy expertise, knowledge and innovations to increase public and private agrifood investment flows.

In 2021, we helped design 42 public investment projects in 37 countries approved by financing partners for around USD 7.2 billion – up from the previous year’s USD 6.6 billion.

More resilient and greener agrifood systems

We continue to evolve with the investment landscape to build more sustainable agrifood systems. That means expanding our work in areas such as agrifood logistics and food distribution, climate, green and blue finance, impact investing, dedicated de-risking and blended financing instruments, and financial technologies (fintechs).