The Office of Agriculture Research and Policy (ARP) within BFS recently developed a new, internal strategic framework for crop innovation, which provides an integrated approach to support the development and scaling of improved crop varieties to function as drivers of productivity, growth, resilience, and nutrition. Though no one activity can span the entire pipeline of Research and Development (R&D), seed systems, dissemination, extension, and farmer adoption across the GFSS target geography, the crop innovation strategic framework provides a broad foundation to align and coordinate diverse USAID investments, across multiple operating units, for enhanced food and nutrition security impact. Together, activities implemented under this strategic framework tie downstream market demand to a continuously responsive, upstream breeding system; link improved crop varieties to the seed systems that take them to scale; and support seed systems to deliver improved varieties.