| Ceres2030 Areas for Investment | Types of Investment Needed | Examples of Aligned Company Investment |
| Empower the Excluded | Enable participation in farmers organisations | Contract with farmers organisations |
| Investment 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 |
| Scale up social protection programmes | Encourage innovative contract farming that provides multiple services to farmers, and enables them to provide affordable nutritious food to social protection public procurement |
| On the Farm | Investment in extension services, especially for women, to accompany R&D spending | Support female farmer leadership programs within their value chains |
| Agricultural interventions to support sustainable practices that are economically viable for farmers | Provide support to small producers to develop stronger business models for regenerative farming |
| Support adoption of climate resilient crops | Provide access to climate resilient crops at lower prices through PPPs |
| Scale up farm level interventions in water scarce regions | Support SMEs with innovation services to supply clean irrigation |
| Improve quality and quantity of livestock feed for small and medium scale commercial farms | Support responsible sourcing and testing of livestock feed |
| Food on the Move | Reduce post-harvest loss by focusing beyond cereals to fruits & vegetables, and other parts of the value chain | 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 |
| Invest in infrastructure, regulations, technical assistance (TA) and services to support SMEs in the value chain | Provide innovation support to SMEs in the value chain and workforce nutrition programmes |
