This event starts with a fireside chat between a farmer and a policymaker, highlighting the benefits of investments in agricultural development and innovation in terms of improving food and nutrition security, reducing poverty, and mitigating climate impacts. An expert panel follows, giving leaders across multiple sectors an opportunity to announce progress against various initiatives focused on smallholder farmers. The panel takes stock of how recent global and bilateral initiatives catalyze investment in climate-smart agriculture and food systems innovation. It also discusses programmatic examples of solutions that have scaled among small-scale producers to help them build more resilient local food systems. Finally, the panel highlights how these investments leverage local partners and have an impact across multiple priority areas, including climate, gender, and nutrition, providing a template for future programming opportunities.