The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to sustainable commodity production practitioners from government, civil society and business on how to collaboratively assess and strengthen farmer support systems in order to achieve the broader goal of improving the lives of commodities producers and their communities, while protecting high value forest and important vulnerable ecosystems.

It is intended to:
• Facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration for systemic change leading to joint diagnosis,
investigation and agreement on systemic solutions to strengthening existing farmer support systems;
• Support the elaboration of updated collective vision, strategies and implementation plans1 for
national and sub-national farmer support systems This all facilitates collective action to support farmers and the transformation of production.