This report exposes the rising threat of Multistakeholder Institutions (MSIs) and increasing corporate influence over the governance of food systems via the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS). At its core the UNFSS is geared toward moving from multilateralism – involving  processes and decision making led by States – to multistakeholderism – a practice of governance that brings multiple stakeholders including corporations, corporate platforms, business associations, donors, academics and civil society actors together to formulate and implement responses to jointly perceived problems.

Multistakeholder is allows powerful transnational corporations, their platforms and associations to direct international and national policy making, financing, narratives, and governance, while promoting corporate friendly, false solutions to food systems in crisis.

The OIE has developed this set of guidelines to help you develop impactful and sustainable PPPs in the veterinary domain, whether you operate in the public sector or the private sector.

One of OIE’s core missions is to help strengthen Veterinary Services around the world. This work reveals the huge potential offered by PPP, with benefits to the public sector in fulfilling their missions more efficiently, and also to the private sector, by creating the conditions for better, more sustainable business. This document is short, easy-to-read, and meant to be a call to action!

This open access book shares the experiences of Tropical Legumes III (TLIII) project in facilitating access to seed of improved legume varieties to smallholder farmers through innovation platforms. It highlights practices and guiding principles implemented in eight developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This book details key processes that respective teams employed to create an innovation space that delivers seed, other inputs, knowledge and financial services to agricultural communities and most importantly, the underserved farmers in remote areas of the drylands.

It offers valuable insights into the pathway to establishing, promoting and operating innovation platforms to enhance the performance and competitiveness of legume crops’ value chains, and addresses critical issues that must be considered to make innovation platforms more sustainable and attractive to beneficiaries. The book offers a wealth of practical insights for development workers, technical staff, and project managers. This publication is all about TLIII community of practice. It will definitely inspire other development workers and scientists to share their own experiences for others to learn from.

Provision of advice and other services related to farming at the village level is critical for enhancing the incomes of small and marginal farmers. Creation of an eco-system that can support the emergence of agri-entrepreneurs through delivery of these services at the village level is the only way forward if we are keen to enhance farm incomes. In this Good Practices Note, S Baskar Reddy, Rajendra Jog, Parikrama Chowdhry and Aravind Thumbur reflect on their experiences with developing and scaling up a model of agri-entrepreneurship by forging partnerships with a number of agencies.

Farmers who can differentiate their products and reliably supply agricultural produce can tap into this global marketplace, which can add both security and value to their farming income. This is as relevant to a cocoa producer from Vanuatu as it is to a beef producer from Australia.

This issue of Partners focuses on globalizing agrifood chains. Under our 10-Year Strategy 2018–27, ACIAR is increasingly working further along supply chains, particularly through our Agribusiness Program. Our focus is on being inclusive of smallholder farmers (especially women), on providing healthy, nutritious, safe food, and developing more sustainable and resilient food systems.