A comprehensive roadmap that outlines how specific activities and interventions are expected to lead to desired sustainable outcomes. It illustrates the causal pathways from actions to short-term results, long-term outcomes, and, ultimately, impacts.
Theory of change
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Reduce by at least half the proportion of men, women, and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions. Lift at least 500 million people living in rural areas above the extreme poverty line of US $1.90 per day (2011 PPP).
Interventions being investigated in this area:
Collective action for smallholder sesame farmers
Digital sesame information systems
Clustering shrimp farming
Integrated coffee sales standard
Improved production practices and traceability
The enhancement of manufacturing or agricultural methods alongside the ability to track products throughout the supply chain.
The interventions with this outcome are specifically exploring:
Improved rules regarding food standards and dietary guidelines
Increased traceability
Improved uptake of product certification
Improved marketing efficiency
The optimization of marketing processes, strategies, and resources to achieve better results.
The interventions with this outcome are specifically exploring:
Decreased output prices
Improved market access
Improvement or increase of collective bargaining
Mechanisms for upgrading product quality
Ethiopia
Digital sesame information systems Digital information systems that efficiently target smallholder sesame farmers with information on weather and marking in Ethiopia
Work package 1: International value chains
Making globally integrated value chains inclusive, efficient, and environmentally sustainable.
End of initiative outcome
In households of farmers and the self-employed and workers in agrifood sectors, 10,000 people (at least 45% women and 20% youth) benefit from piloted Work Package 1 innovations in global value chains in three geographies.
Innovations to improve collaboration between different actors in the global value chain
Ethiopia
Collective action for smallholder sesame farmers Collective action for smallholder sesame farmers to lower transaction costs in marketing in Ethiopia
Digital innovations for tracing products and making market information accessible
Bangladesh
Clustering shrimp farming Clustering shrimp farming to promote traceability and certification in Bangladesh
Honduras
Integrated coffee sales standard Interlinking extension and coffee markets through a novel and transparent standard for coffee sales to improve smallholder coffee farm productivity, coffee quality, and price transmission in Honduras
Improved vertical coordination
The enhancement of communication, cooperation, and alignment between different levels of an organization
The interventions with this outcome are specifically exploring:
Improved farm-level use of technology or agronomic practices
Increased access to market information
Increased adoption of climate-smart farming
Improved access to digital technology
Making digital tools and devices more available, affordable, and user-friendly to a broader audience.
The interventions with this outcome are specifically exploring:
Improved access to extension services
Improved raw product quality
Increased traceability
Improved farm-level use of technology or agronomic practices
Increased farm income
Increased uptake of product certification
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Close the gender gap in rights to economic resources on, access to ownership of, and control over land and natural resources, for more than 500 million women who work in food, land, and water systems. Offer rewardable opportunities to 267 million young people who are not in employment, education, or training.
Interventions being investigated in this area:
Collective action for smallholder sesame farmers
Clustering shrimp farming
Nutrition, health & food security
End hunger for all and enable affordable healthy diets for the 3 billion people who do not currently have access to safe and nutritious food
Interventions being investigated in this area:
Collective action for smallholder sesame farmers
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Equip 500 million small-scale producers to be more resilient to climate shocks, with climate adaptation solutions available through national innovation systems.
Interventions being investigated in this area:
Clustering shrimp farming
A structured set of tasks within a project that are grouped together to address a specific area or goal. This diagram shows the Theory of Change for the Rethinking Food Markets Initiative, which has 3 work packages.
Primary impact area
Secondary impact area
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Interventions
A specific action or set of actions taken to address an identified problem or opportunity. Intervention and innovation are often used interchangeably.
Outcomes
The measurable changes or achievements that result from interventions. Outcomes tend to be longer term, whereas outputs are shorter term.
Impact Areas
A comprehensive roadmap that outlines how specific activities and interventions are expected to lead to desired sustainable outcomes. It illustrates the causal pathways from actions to short-term results, long-term outcomes, and, ultimately, impacts.
Theory of change
Rethinking Food Markets overview
Principal impact area
Significant impact area
Sustainable development goals
Work packages
A structured set of tasks within a project that are grouped together to address a specific area or goal. This diagram shows the Theory of Change for the Rethinking Food Markets Initiative, which has 3 work packages.
Outcomes
The measurable changes or achievements that result from interventions. Outcomes tend to be longer term, whereas outputs are shorter term.
Impact Areas
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In households of farmers and the self-employed and workers in agrifood sectors, 10,000 people (at least 45% women and 20% youth) benefit from piloted Work Package 1 innovations in global value chains in three geographies.
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
In households of farmers and of the self-employed and workers in agrifood sectors, 10,000 people (at least 45% women and 20% youth) benefit from piloted Work Package 2 innovatons in domestic market value chains in three geographies.
Nutrition, health & food security
Pilot innovations in digital technologies for a) logistics and b) finance, benefitting at least 3,000 workers in agrifood micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) jobs in Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Uganda. At least 45% of the pilot beneficiaries are women, and 20% youth.
