About Us

Who We Are

AGree drives positive change in the food and agriculture system by connecting and challenging leaders from diverse communities to catalyze action and elevate food and agriculture as a national priority. Through our work, AGree will develop a broad framework for action to support policy innovation that addresses AGree’s four challenges in a comprehensive and interconnected way and overcomes the barriers that have traditionally inhibited transformative change. AGree anticipates constructive roles for the private sector and civil society as well as for policymakers.

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The Challenges

AGree has developed the foundation for its work by articulating four interconnected challenges facing the global food and agriculture system and a set of strategies that will be needed for successfully addressing these challenges. Meeting these challenges will require transformative policy changes and bold, new action from the private sector and civil society in order to achieve lasting and meaningful change.

These challenges include:

• Meet future demand for food;
• Conserve and enhance water, soil, and habitat;
• Improve nutrition and public health; and
• Strengthen farms, workers, and communities.

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Our Vision

AGree envisions a world in 2030 in which people everywhere have access to affordable food that is nutritious and safe and promotes their health and well-being. Food and farming systems meet the nutritional needs of a growing global population, conserve the natural resources that sustain us, and diversify the supply of renewable energy feed stocks. Both rural and urban communities are food secure and economically robust. Farmers, ranchers, and workers throughout the food and agriculture supply chain are able to sustain the health of their families, the land, and animals, and benefit from improved access to high quality education, health care, and career opportunities.

Yields, harvests, and technological disparities between countries have narrowed markedly. Adverse human and environmental health impacts of agricultural inputs and practices are dramatically reduced. Efficient mechanisms are in place in both the public and private sectors to scale up innovative practices and technologies, and manage and overcome new challenges.

The public and private sectors are aligned in promoting access to both domestic and export markets. There is widespread agreement on, and support for the roles of government, the private sector, and civil society in establishing research priorities and building strong food and agriculture institutions; ensuring food safety; enhancing environmental conservation; supporting producers in the face of catastrophic crop losses; promoting public health; and providing food security and economic opportunity.

The food and agriculture system connects the global community with a shared sense of purpose and the system is recognized as vital to the stability, health, and well-being of our global community. A diverse cross section of society is actively engaged in forging consensus on continued food and agriculture system change and adaptation, informed by a sophisticated understanding of changing market needs, environmental conditions, and global and local opportunities.

Our Approach

The AGree initiative brings together a cross-section of the food and agriculture system, including conventional and organic farmers, rural experts, nutritionists, food manufacturers, economists, and nine of the world’s leading foundations. AGree is led by four Co-Chairs, each of whom represents a different experience and point-of-view on food and agriculture. We have created a diverse Advisory Committee that includes people from different disciplines who advise us on a variety of aspects of domestic and global agriculture issues. And our Research Committee of distinguished scientists helps ensure that our work is rooted in science and robust analysis as we seek to answer the tough questions and address the critical challenges.