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Amplify the farmers' voice.

Your gift enables the Global Farmer Network to continue to provide a forum for global farmers to share their stories and a from-the-field perspective with other farmers, consumers, opinion, and policy leaders.

Support the Founding Farmers Fund

Amplify a farmer's voice on the global stage.

For 25 years, the Global Farmer Network has championed one mission: to amplify farmers' authentic voices in critical conversations about food security, technology, sustainability, and innovation. Our 292 members represent 69 countries and one shared identity — they are farmers first, committed to leading change both in their fields and on the world stage. But too often, those global conversations happen without farmers in the room. That must change.

Through GFN, farmers are already showing up — at climate negotiations, food system summits, innovation forums, and platforms local to global. They bring practical expertise and lived experience that no one else can offer. And their presence is making a difference. We have more farmers ready to step forward. But for many, the cost of participation — including travel, visa fees, and time away from their farms — creates a real barrier. That's why we launched the Founding Farmers Fund.

This new fund helps ensure that no farmer's voice goes unheard simply because they can't afford the journey. With your support, we can empower more GFN members to be present, be heard, and help shape a more sustainable, secure, and farmer-centered future.

Now more than ever, it's essential that we equip farmers with the skills to share their stories.

Giving levels

Choose a level that reflects your support. Every gift — at every level — helps ensure farmers have a seat at the table.

Signature gift
$25,000

Global Farmer Network Sustainer

Ensure GFN members continue to show up in global conversations for the next 25 years.

$10,000

Sponsor One Farmer's Roundtable Experience

Covers full participation for a new member in the one-week GFN Communications Roundtable. Each new class includes 15–20 outstanding farmers from around the world — consider sponsoring multiple members.

$7,500

Fund Travel to a Global Event

Enables a GFN member to represent farmer perspectives at key international discussions.

$5,000

Co-sponsor a Travel Grant

Provides flexible support to help cover costs for global event participation.

$2,500

Partial Scholarship Contributor

Helps offset airfare or lodging for one farmer participant.

$1,000

Friend of the Network

Show your support to help a farmer show up.

Other

Every dollar helps

Every gift, at every level, helps ensure farmers have a seat at the table.

Prefer to mail your donation?

Please make checks payable to the Global Farmer Network Foundation and send to:

Mary Boote, Chief Executive Officer
Global Farmer Network
309 Court Avenue, Suite 214
Des Moines, IA 50309

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In the words of our farmers

GFN members from four continents on why investment in this network matters.

GFN is uniquely positioned to solve two of the most important problems in the world today: climate change and hunger.
Shekhar Bhadsavle · India
Learning happens when top farmers from around the world are brought together in one room.
Patience Koku · Nigeria
GFN brings farmers from around the world into a learning exchange — new ideas, new perspectives.
Javier Callegas · Nicaragua
GFN helps farmers connect, learn from each other, and together build a stronger voice for agriculture.
Jose Luis Gonzalez · Colombia

Global support

Join donors from around the world supporting the GFN.

GFN supporters span the globe — underscoring the worldwide importance of amplifying the farmers' voice. Explore the full member and regional map to see the network at work.

View the global member map
72
Countries represented
6
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Help us build global advocates.

Your gift to the Global Farmer Network Foundation is tax-deductible. Contact Mary Boote (CEO) or Kellie Bray (Director of Partnerships) to learn about becoming a GFN Impact Investor.

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