Global Alliance for the Future of Food
Strategy
Web
Content
Video
Social
Design
The Global Alliance for the Future of Food set out to publish a new Beacons of Hope series focused on the Land-Water Nexus. The brief required more than strong storytelling. It needed a campaign approach that could carry multiple stories across countries, speak to different audiences and support use in outreach and advocacy settings.
A key requirement was to hold attention in a crowded communications landscape while staying true to values-led, community-centred storytelling. The campaign needed a consistent structure and visual language, a clear publishing rhythm, and a set of assets that Global Alliance staff, members and partners could use to share the stories with confidence.
We began with a strategic communications plan to set direction for the series and guide delivery. This included goals, target audiences, messaging, communication pathways, a publishing roadmap and an evaluation framework, so the campaign could be rolled out with clarity and consistency.
From there, we moved into implementation, building a repeatable campaign system that packages each story in multiple formats. The core publishing format is an immersive, scroll-based story experience, supported by a central landing page that acts as the campaign hub and visual index for all stories.
To support consistency across the rollout, we created a set of campaign components designed to work across all stories, including design templates, story modules and a suite of content formats for distribution. Once story material was complete, we selected the strongest options for each story and refined them for release, ensuring every asset felt tailored while still sitting within a coherent campaign system. This included custom illustrations, design templates and story components that can be reused across web pages, newsletters and social media.
To broaden reach and make the stories easy to share, we produced a set of multimedia deliverables for each release, including short story films, photography-led assets, soundscape and audio elements, plus toolkits for partners. We also set up campaign coordination tools, including a Trello-based toolkit system and supporting content calendar materials, to streamline sharing across networks.
The campaign is now live with stories from South Africa and Uganda, each published through the same campaign system while allowing space for the distinct context, voices and visuals of each place. The next set of stories will be launching soon, including Australia, Canada, India and Colombia.
- Story and landing page performance, including page views and time on page
- Social performance across priority channels, including clicks and shares
- Newsletter engagement, including open rates and click rates
- Video performance, including views and watch time
- Qualitative feedback on usefulness for members, partners and advocacy settings
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