| 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 nutritious school meals, food vouchers and cash transfers | Encourage innovative contract farming that provides multiple services to farmers, and enables them to provide affordable nutritious food to social protection public procurement. |
| Promote climate and nutrition awareness, including through climate information and extension services, nutrition education, social and behavioural change communication, and labelling | 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 sustainable aquaculture, livestock and poultry | 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 crop diversification, including through agroforestry and 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 the 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. |
| Invest in 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. |
| Promote home gardens (rural and urban) | 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, processing and trade infrastructure for nutrient-dense food and 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, 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 | Establish production lines to fortify staple foods (e.g., wheat flour, maize flour, edible oils, rice, or salt) with essential vitamins and minerals. |
| 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. |
