The Global Alliance for Food Innovation (GAFI) is a groundbreaking public-private partnership designed to revolutionize food security financing and accelerate innovation in nutrition and sustainable agriculture. Led by the Mary Dinah Foundation and other global partners, GAFI mobilizes capital to scale high-impact solutions that combat hunger, improve nutrition, and strengthen global food systems.
GAFI is committed to financing and scaling transformative food security solutions by leveraging public and private sector investments. Through our innovative funding model, we aim to:
Global Food Crisis
345 million people face acute food insecurity due to conflict, economic shocks, and climate change, demanding urgent action.
Malnutrition & Child Mortality
Malnutrition remains a leading cause of child mortality, underscoring the need to scale nutrition programs and improve health outcomes.
Climate Change Threats
Climate-driven disruptions in food supply chains threaten food availability, stability, and affordability.
Inadequate Funding
Existing funding mechanisms cannot meet rising food security challenges—innovative financial solutions are essential to drive long-term impact.
To ensure sustainable funding for food security initiatives, GAFI employs a multi-layered financing approach, including:
Matching Funds: Donor contributions are matched with private-sector investments to maximise resources.
Blended Financing: A mix of grants, concessional loans, and financial investments ensures capital efficiency and sustainable impact.
Impact-Linked Financing: Offering performance-based grants or low-interest loans to agri-businesses and food innovators based on measurable sustainability outcomes. Rewards companies that reduce carbon footprint, improve food access, and enhance farmer livelihoods.
Sustainable Growth Model: GAFI reinvests a percentage of generated funds into food security initiatives, ensuring continuous funding expansion and long-term scalability.
Scaling climate-smart agriculture, food fortification, and new food technologies to ensure global food availability.
Expanding access to nutritious food in conflict zones and humanitarian crises.
Addressing malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women and strengthening early childhood nutrition programs.
Financing sustainable agriculture, food supply chains, and smallholder farmer market access.
GAFI is more than an alliance—it is a movement to end hunger and malnutrition through innovation and sustainable financing. We invite governments, corporations, donors, and impact investors to co-finance and scale solutions that ensure food equity for all.
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Together, we can transform global food security and ensure a world where no one suffers from hunger.
