This graphic summarizes the systemic interaction of GA’s Areas of Activity to support farmers, foresters and their organizations as well as nature, society and rural economies.
Co-creating enabling environments to scale Agroecology and Productive Forests into a new mainstream
Co-Innovation and Training for cultivation, bio-inputs, mechanization and technology
Economic Capacity Building and Production Support for agriculture and forestry value chains.
Strengthen profitable access to private markets and public procurement
Support access to national and international blended finance from public and private sources
GA supports Co-Innovation among successful Agroecology and Agroforestry approaches that integrate positive impact with economic success, for example APCNF that already grew to 1.8 million farmers.
GA co-organizes Co-Innovation Journeys to these successful Agroecology and Agroforestry approaches to inspire co-innovation and cooperation among farmers and other stakeholders.
GA trains farmers and foresters in cultivation methods, bio-inputs, mechanization and technology and supports co-innovation with local methods. GA also helps to scale innovate extension systems.
GA supports capacity building in value addition, access to public and private markets and Blended Finance to strengthen farmer incomes and the regeneration of Food Systems.
Internationally GA co-creates with farmer organizations and other stakeholders hubs for co-innovation, cultivation training and economic capacity building.
With NOW Partners Foundation, local and international finance and investment partners, GA supports farmer organizations to access public and private sector funding.
GA contributes to public policies and systems integration to mainstream Agroecology and Productive Forests. This includes TERRA, the COP 30 Action Agenda for Agroecology and Agroforestry.
GA’s work is based on the analysis of the current food system, the opportunities of innovation and the proof to scale gap that blocks the mainstreaming of Agroecology and Productive Forest solutions.
GA’s local and international partners include farmers and their organizations, governments, multilaterals, researchers, civil society, companies, development banks and private investors.
Across the Southern Hemisphere, millions of farmers and foresters who use the most innovative Agroecology and Agroforestry methods systematically outperform chemical farming in all regards. These well researched, adaptive and scalable methods demonstrate that together we can co-create a new mainstream that achieves the following outcomes:
Increase farmer incomes by strengthening yields and reduce costs
Regenerate soil health, vitality and productivity
Increasing biodiversity, also contributes to productivity
Increase holding capacity, decrease need and irrigation
Increase resilience to droughts, floods, storms, pests
Cultivation that revives fallow farm lands, forests, deserts
Strengthen food security, nutrition and overall health
Reduce GHG emissions, sequesters carbon, methane
GA supports the adaptation and scaling of Agroecology and Agroforesty methods for a new mainstream that integrates the regeneration of nature and society with the financial success of farmers, foresters and rural economies.
GA supports farmers, their organizations and related stakeholders to develop and implement concrete business and investment plans to access markets and blended finance.
