Coalition on Sustainable Productivity Growth for Food Security and Resource Conservation (SPG Coalition)

The goal of the SPG Coalition is to accelerate the transition to more sustainable food systems through productivity growth that optimizes agricultural sustainability across social, economic, and environmental dimensions. The SPG Coalition is intended to advance a holistic approach to productivity growth that considers impacts and tradeoffs among multiple objectives, including, but not limited to, food security and nutrition, food safety, food affordability, food access, diet quality, farmer and farmworker incomes and wellbeing, equity and inclusion, food loss and waste, animal welfare, resource conservation, biodiversity, soil health, water quality, resilience, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Thematic Areas: Food Security, Sustainable Productivity Growth, Resource Conservation
Leading Entities:

United States of America

UN AFPs & IGOs

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), International Potato Center (CIP)

Member Countries

Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Dominican Republic, European Union (EU), Georgia, Ghana, Honduras, Israel, Jordan, Liberia, Mauritania, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Paraguay, Philippines, Türkiye, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Viet Nam

Other Members

Global Plant Council

Think Tanks/Research Centers

Akademiya2063, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU), Benin’s Research and Action Group for Sustainable Development, Breakthrough Institute, Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI), Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), Global Institute for Food Security, International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation, University of Puerto Rico at Utuado, Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, World Resources Institute (WRI)

Website & Focal Points
https://www.usda.gov/oce/sustainability/spg-coalition

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