The PepsiCo Foundation invested $18.2 million to scale CARE’s She Feeds the World (SFtW) initiative and impact millions of small-scale women producers and their families over ten years (2018–2028). With their initial investment in 2019, The PepsiCo Foundation became CARE’s largest private-sector partner for SFtW.
The CARE-PepsiCo Foundation partnership is scaling up the SFtW approach in communities where the company operates by working with small-scale producers in Uganda, Peru, Egypt, Vietnam, Thailand, Pakistan, Colombia, and Türkiye.
SFtW Uganda, SFtW Peru, SFtW Raks Thai (Thailand), and SFtW Pakistan concluded in 2022, 2023, and 2025, respectively. As of March 2025, the program has reached more than 3.9M small-scale producers, their families, and communities with education, resources, and economic support to help them increase their crop yields and incomes and improve family nutrition. SFtW helps women producers gain access to land rights, financing, and markets; acquire quality inputs and equipment; and implement sustainable agriculture practices. The program is also designed to help improve family nutrition and engage men and boys to address cultural and societal barriers to equality for women and girls.
The partnership also contributes to PepsiCo’s Positive Agricultural goal to improve 250,000 livelihoods: of the 57,000 lives improved through 2023, 32,104 (56%) of them were SFtW program participants.
