Core partners

Established in 2006, AGRA is an African-led and Africa-based institution that puts smallholder farmers at the center of the continent’s growing economy. Together with its partners, AGRA is working to sustainably grow Africa’s food systems in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. 

AGRA strengthens seed systems, develops, and promotes sustainable farming practices, helps unlock trade and markets, and supports governments who lead their countries’ development. The organization works with farmers to adapt to climate change, increase soil health, and protect the environment.  AGRA believes deeply in the urgency of reducing the inequality that women face in agriculture, and to unlocking the power and innovation of youth. 

Founded in 2013, EAT is a global, non-profit organization dedicated to transforming the global food system through cutting-edge science, impatient disruption, novel partnerships, and movement building.  EAT connects and partners across science, policy, business, and civil society to achieve a fair and sustainable global food system for healthy people and planet – leaving no one behind.  

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) works with governments, businesses and civil society to ensure nutritious and safe foods are available to all people – especially those most vulnerable to malnutrition – and that they are delivered in a sustainable way. GAIN’s focus countries include Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Tanzania. 

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an independent international scientific institute that researches some of this century’s most pressing environmental, economic, technological, and social challenges. The institute’s findings provide valuable insights for policymakers to shape the future of our changing world.   

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) is a global organization working closely with UN agencies, multilateral financing institutions, the private sector, and civil society to support countries with integrated approaches for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement. The network comprises over 1,600 member-institutions globally that mobilize scientific, technological and local policy expertise to promote practical solutions through education, research, policy analysis and global cooperation.    

SDSN has been a FOLU core partner from the beginning, leading two of its strategic initiatives: the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use and Bio-Energy (FABLE) Consortium, and the Food, Environment, Land and Development (FELD) Action Tracker.  

SYSTEMIQ was founded in 2016 to drive the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement by transforming markets and business models in five key systems: nature and food, materials and circularity, energy, urban areas and sustainable finance. A certified B Corp, SYSTEMIQ combines strategic advisory with high-impact, on-the-ground work, and partners with business, finance, policymakers and civil society to deliver system change. SYSTEMIQ has offices in Brazil, France, Germany, Indonesia, the Netherlands and the UK.    

SYSTEMIQ coordinated the FOLU Secretariat from inception in 2017 to 2020.  

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) consists of a global community of over 200 businesses working collectively to accelerate the system transformations needed for a net zero, nature positive, and equitable future.  

WBCSD engages executives and sustainability leaders to share practical insights, develop guides and tools, and provide science-based standards and protocols to help businesses drive integrated actions on climate, nature and equality across sectors and geographical regions.  

The World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) is a member-based association bringing together 80 farmers’ organizations and agricultural cooperatives from 59 countries worldwide. WFO is dedicated to bringing the farmers’ voice into global political dialogues and advocating for the interests of the worldwide farming community in international processes impacting the present and future of agriculture.

World Resources Institute (WRI) is a global research organization with more than 1,600 experts and spans more than 60 countries. With deep expertise in policy, research and data analysis, economics and more, WRI turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human well-being.  

WRI is the acting secretariat as well as a founding member of FOLU.