INA was founded in November 2018 on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and is coordinated by a team from GIZ. The goal of INA is to achieve more sustainability in global agricultural supply chains and to improve the living conditions of smallholder farmers. To this end, the initiative offers an open platform for actors from the private sector, civil society and politics. INA works independently of individual commodities and focuses on the development of sustainable regions in which a cross-commodity approach is applied.