Partnering with APNI

Partnerships and Pathways to Scale

APNI strengthens agricultural systems by equipping core actors—farmers, researchers, extension services, private‑sector partners, and policymakers—with the data, tools, and analytical capacity needed to generate and validate practical, profitable, and scalable agronomic solutions. As these innovations gain traction, wider networks of smallholder farmers, women, and youth benefit through improved market access, more resilient institutions, and evidence‑based policies.

Impact is scaled through strategic partnerships with NARES, universities, training institutions, private firms, farmer organizations, development partners, and policy bodies. Field pilots provide proof of concept, while existing institutional and market mechanisms ensure sustained adoption and long‑term relevance.

A Co‑Creation Delivery Model

APNI embeds innovation directly into national and private‑sector structures. We co‑create scientific contributions and minimum viable products with partners, ensuring solutions are locally owned and operationally integrated from the start.

APNI works with five complementary types of partners, each playing a distinct but coordinated role in value creation:

1. Strategic Partnerships: Co-creating long-term value aligned with APNI2030 through shared vision, scientific leadership, and the co-development of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) that drive system-level change.
2. Scaling Partnerships: Possessing the mandate, networks, and market position to take validated MVPs and institutional solutions beyond their original development domain, translating them into policy uptake, investment instruments, market integration, and multi-country or regional programs.
3. Resource & Investment Partnerships: Industry, governments, development agencies, foundations and financiers who provide the core funding and investment that enable our R&D, some of whom may also collaborate with us to convert research evidence and MVPs into actionable policy instruments, investment cases, and blended-finance models.
4. Functional Development Partnerships: Delivering project-level execution and early-stage innovation, supporting on-the-ground research activities and learning processes.
5. Operational Partnerships: Providing the essential services, inputs, technologies, and infrastructure required for day-to-day office and research operations and efficient execution, ranging from specialized scientific tools and digital platforms to standard operational supplies and logistics that keep the organization running smoothly.