Strategic Investment Planning and Policy

Transforming the world’s agrifood systems calls for greater public and private investment shaped by strategic and innovative thinking. It calls for good analysis, a shared vision and sound policies.
Linking conducive policies with sizeable investments is one of the best ways to achieve impact at scale. The FAO Investment Centre works with countries and partners to develop agricultural investment strategies and plans, including through FAO’s flagship Hand-in-Hand initiative.
The Centre leads and contributes to policy, analytical and sector studies to improve the quality and quantity of agrifood investments. And it brings together public and private sector stakeholders – including producer organizations, governments, financing partners and others – to discuss policy issues and resolve bottlenecks along supply chains.
In 2023 alone, the Centre contributed to 40 agricultural strategies, 49 sector studies, 15 policy studies and 16 policy dialogues in 67 countries.
Initiatives
Latest stories

Launch of the Ghana Cocoa Monitor (GCM): Guiding policies and interventions for sustainable cocoa production
15/07/2025
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), working in collaboration with private sector actors, civil society and with financial support from the European Union...
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Beyond the canopy: Mapping cocoa fields in Cameroon’s agroforestry systems for a deforestation-free cocoa
19/05/2025
Cameroon’s cocoa thrives in rich agroforestry systems, where cocoa trees coexist with towering forests, fruit trees like mango and avocado, and non-timber...

Cocoa & Coffee festival: Cameroonian farmers better prepared to adapt to new EU regulation on deforestation
16/04/2025
Partners of the European Union (EU) Sustainable Cocoa Programme (SCP) seized the opportunity of the Cocoa & Coffee festival organized in Yaoundé...

Promoting sustainable agrifood systems in Sierra Leone through behavioural science
16/04/2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Union (EU) partnered with students from top ranked universities...
Latest publications

FAO Investment Centre - 2017 at a glance
09/2018
This brochure is a summary of the FAO Investment Centre activities during 2017.

1964-2014 FAO Investment Centre: 50 years of development support
01/2015
To celebrate the Investment Centre’s 50th anniversary, we at FAO reflected on half a century’s worth of experiences in facilitating...