| Ceres2030/Hesat2030 Areas for Investment | Types of Investment Needed | Examples of Aligned Company Investment |
| Empower the Excluded | Enable participation in farmers organisations | Contract with farmers organisations to promote the cultivation of diverse, nutrient-rich crops, enhancing food security and nutrition |
| Invest in vocational programs for rural youth offering integrated training in multiple skills | Establish young or female farmer programmes that train them on a wide range of skills, including the cultivation and marketing of nutritious crops like fruits and vegetables |
| Scale up social protection programs, including school based programs, cash transfers and food vouchers | Encourage innovative contract farming that provides multiple services to farmers, and enables them to provide affordable nutritious food to social protection public procurement |
| Promote knowledge & awareness on climate resilience and nutrition, including climate information and extension services, nutrition education and behaviour change communication | Develop a mobile app that provides real-time weather forecast, climate-smart agricultural tips and nutrition guidelines and enables them to provide affordable nutritious food to social protection public procurement |
| On the Farm | Invest in extension services, especially for women, to accompany R&D spending | Support female farmer leadership programs within their value chains, focusing on the production and marketing of nutrition-rich foods like biofortified crops and diverse vegetables |
| Promote agricultural interventions to support sustainable practices that are economically viable for farmers including agroforestry, aquaculture and livestock production | Provide support to small producers to develop stronger business models for regenerative farming, ensuring the production of nutrient-dense food like fish, fruits, and vegetables |
| Support crops diversification, including the adoption of climate resilient crops | Establish demonstration plots for farmers to experiment with and observe the benefits of climate-resilient crops and nutrient-rich alternatives such as legumes |
| Enhance soil conservation and scale up farm level interventions in water scarce regions, including improved water management | Implement rainwater harvesting systems and soil moisture management techniques, such as cover cropping, to improve water retention and efficient water use for growing nutrient-dense crops |
| Improve quality and quantity of livestock feed for small and medium scale commercial farms | Support responsible sourcing and testing of livestock feed to improve animal health and productivity, leading to a greater supply of high-quality, nutrient-dense animal products |
| Promote home gardens (rural) and urban agriculture | Encourage the establishment of home gardens and urban agriculture initiatives to grow nutrient-dense foods, such as vegetables, fruits, and herbs, enhancing local food security and nutrition |
| Food on the Move | Build storage, distribution, and trade infrastructure for nutrient-dense food, to reduce post-harvest loss and spoilage | Provide a package of technologies and services, such as multi-use, circular, aggregation cool storage units that can be purchased by farmer organisations/communities, improved access to testing facilities (e.g., aflatoxin), transparent contracts and price premiums for quality produce |
| Improve market access, namely by investing in infrastructure, regulations, technical assistance (TA), including on food safety and services to support SMEs in the value chain | Develop regional food hubs that integrate storage, processing, and distribution infrastructure for nutritious crops, linking smallholder farmers to larger markets while ensuring food and quality |
| Invest in food fortification, including biofortification | Support the development and distribution of biofortified crops, such as vitamin A-rich sweet potatoes, to combat micronutrient deficiencies and improve public health nutrition |
| Provide financing to SMEs in the value chain for climate-resilient and/or nutrition-sensitive outcomes | Provide grants or equity investments to SMEs working in the food processing sector, encouraging innovation in creating affordable, nutritious, and climate-resilient food products, such as fortified snacks or locally produced plant-based protein products |
