In this piece, FCRN member Marcel Beukeboom takes up where Emile Frison’s blog-post on the SDGs left off, introducing nuances in partnership development and cross-sectoral collaboration. This piece can also be read as a continuation of the first pass the parcel post by Corinna Hawkes. Marcel Beukeboom heads the Food & Nutrition Security cluster at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands and is currently co-chair of the Steering Committee of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), alternate member of the Global Agenda Council for Food Security and member of the Transformation Leaders Network of the World Economic Forum, and member of the Steering Committee of the Food & Business Knowledge Platform.You can contact Marcel via member messaging here (note you will need to be logged in as a member on the FCRN website). We also welcome comments below this post– again; you’ll need to be logged in.