The global Plantwise programme has been operating since 2011 and is currently implemented in 30 countries, working with more than 200 partner organisations across Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Plantwise has been demonstrated to be a working concept for the effective delivery of plant health information to smallholder farmers. However, it is critically important that CABI interventions contribute to lasting positive change beyond the end of direct Plantwise funding, hence the need to assess the sustainability1 of activities across the 30 Plantwise countries. At this advanced stage of Plantwise, it was therefore felt that Plantwise sustainability needed to be viewed from a broader and country-specific perspective to gain a deeper understanding of what elements of Plantwise are operating within the country, whether these are likely to continue and why or why not (beyond the ‘who is going to pay’ question).

This synthesis report draws on the country reports of the sustainability assessment carried out in 2020, as well as other recent reports and evaluation studies, to present the key findings as to where indications of sustainability or risk/challenges to Plantwise activities have been highlighted. These findings are presented within the overarching five Plantwise themes: 1) stakeholder linkages, 2) plant clinics and complementary activities, 3) data management and use, 4) information exchange and Knowledge Bank, and 5) monitoring and evaluation (M&E).