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An Agri-Food Alliance
for the
21st
Century
Forging a transformative agri-food alliance for a competitive, innovative, and sustainable future.
The agri-food landscape is shifting, driven by myriad of interrelated forces from evolving business trends, consumer behaviors, and market volatility, to emerging technologies, environmental pressures, and changing workforce dynamics. To meet the needs of the 21st century, tomorrow’s agri-food systems will look different than today—integrated, efficient, transparent, resilient.
Getting there will require systems thinking and collaborative action to catalyze positive change.
Enter the Illinois Agri-Food Alliance.
Illinois An Agri-Food Epicenter
Illinois’ food and agriculture system has been a driving force of the state’s economy for centuries and is a globally recognized center of world-class production & processing, business & trade, and research & innovation.
Leveraging these unique assets via coordinated leadership and catalyzed action will advance the innovation and thought-leadership needed in the 21st century.
An Alliance for the 21st Century
Illinois Agri-Food Alliance works to connect talent, catalyze ideas, and champion solutions in a time of unprecedented change.
Through a unified, neutral platform, our partners are aligning strategic priorities, sparking innovation, improving coordination, catalyzing growth, increasing visibility, and building trust — ingredients essential to driving forward-thinking solutions that address the 21st century economic, environmental, and societal challenges of today and tomorrow.
Our Goals Connect. Catalyze. Champion.
Foster and sustain a world-class epicenter for agri-food system ideation and innovation
Provide a neutral convening point to explore complex, systemic challenges
Track trends, technologies, and developments in a rapidly changing landscape
Enhance understanding and serve as a refer- ence point for the public and professionals
Catalyze and champion actions that support economic, environmental, and societal health
Create impacts that are greater than the sum of their parts
Forging a transformative agri-food alliance for a competitive, innovative, and sustainable future.
