Current partners

ISF Advisors

  • Global
  • Research
  • 2016; 2019-20; 2024-25

ISF Advisors is a strategic and financial advisory group dedicated to scaling finance for a more sustainable, equitable, and productive global food system. Its research and advisory work explore topics around smallholder finance such as climate change, technology, and rural enterprise development, providing insights to inform investment strategies and sector initiatives. Active in 50+, ISF Advisors collaborates with investors, donors, companies, NGOs, and foundations to support practical approaches to food system transformation.

Small Foundation has provided unrestricted funding to ISF to help build core staff capacity of the ISF team, made a financial contribution to the ISF and Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab’s State of the Sector report 2019/20 and is supporting the State of the Sector report to be launched in Q3 2025.

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