This support should extend beyond formal value chains to include informal vendors and market actors. Inclusive measures—such as microfinance, hygiene and storage infrastructure, and capacity-building programmes—can strengthen informal food economies while improving food safety, livelihoods, and resilience. 

Strengthening the mandates of districts and municipalities will be essential for addressing entrenched power asymmetries and delivering equitable and contextually relevant outcomes.

Support the development and accessibility of machinery, equipment, and digital technologies adapted for smallholder and family farming to reduce labor burden and advance the agroecological transition. These tools should be affordable and avoid causing significant debt for farmers. Simultaneously, public procurement can be used as a strategic instrument to guarantee and democratize access to healthy, culturally appropriate food, while promoting the transition to agroecological practices.

Create enabling spaces for young people to reimagine food culture and resist unhealthy food marketing. At the same time, targeted policy actions should be undertaken to ensure returns from farming are attractive and grant decent livelihoods and prosperity for young generations. 

Brazil advances this policy action through agrarian reform and family farming programs that secure land rights and market access for smallholders. Policies like the National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture (PRONAF) provide credit, training, and extension services, while the PAA and PNAE guarantee markets for family farm products. These measures strengthen producers’ governance, improve livelihoods, and promote sustainable, inclusive rural development.

Brazil’s Productive Home Gardens program promotes diversified, year-round food production, agroecological practices, and rural women’s economic empowerment. Coordinated by the Ministries of Agrarian and Social Development, it provides training, inputs, water infrastructure, and market access. Primarily supporting household consumption and local markets, the program aims to establish 90,000 gardens by 2026, enhancing food security, climate resilience, and inclusive rural development.

As announced in the Vision for Agriculture and Food, the European Commission will work towards launching an EU Observatory on Farmland, with the aim to enhance transparency and cooperation in domains such as land transactions and transfers of land use rights, price trends and market behaviour, changes in land use, as well as loss of agricultural and natural land. The observatory will also help the Member States take informed decisions on the regulation of their farmland markets.

In Andhra Pradesh, India’s Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) program supports farmers by strengthening farmers’ governance over land and production systems. It promotes chemical-free farming, provides access to training and peer-learning networks, and links producers to markets through farmer-led cooperatives. By enhancing skills, reducing input dependency, and improving market access, APCNF empowers smallholders while fostering sustainable, resilient livelihoods.

National nutrition coordination platforms have been formally embedded in government through presidential or prime ministerial directives in Malawi and Uganda. Parliamentary caucuses are engaging across sectors to track SDG2 progress through cross-committee dialogue in Tanzania.

Mexico has institutionalized agroecology through national programs, university training, and farmer support initiatives. Programs like SIVAP provide extension services and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, while universities such as UAAAN train future agricultural professionals in sustainable practices. Financial incentives, including programs like PROCAMPO, encourage farmers to adopt agroecological methods. Farmer organizations, such as ANEC, strengthen governance, reduce input dependency, and promote collective decision-making, supporting resilient, sustainable production systems and rural livelihoods nationwide.