The advent of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals has refocused global attention on the roles of business and other nonstate actors in achieving global goals. Often, business involvement takes the form of collaborations with the more traditional actors—governments and non‐governmental organizations. Although such partnerships for development have been seen before, the scale and expectations are new. This paper explores how and why these cross‐sector collaborations are evolving, and what steps can or should be taken to ensure that partnerships create public and private value. The arguments are illustrated with reference to cases of market‐driven partnerships for agriculture in Southeast Asia that are intended to engage marginalized smallholder farmers in global value chains in agriculture. The aims of these cross‐sector collaborations coincide with several targets of the Sustainable Development Goals such as poverty alleviation, decreasing environmental impact, and achieving food security. This is a hard case for mechanisms intended to protect public interests, given that the target beneficiaries (low‐income smallholder farmers and the environment) are unable to speak effectively for themselves. We find that structures and processes to align interests in ways that protect the public interest are both necessary and feasible, though not easy to achieve.

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可持续发展目标的合作治理

联合国《可持续发展目标》的问世将全球注意力重新集中在企业和其他非国家行为体在实现全球目标中的作用上。通常，业务参与采取与更传统的参与者（政府和非政府组织）合作的形式。尽管以前已经看到过这样的发展伙伴关系，但是规模和期望是新的。本文探讨了这些跨部门合作的发展方式和原因，以及可以或应该采取哪些步骤来确保合作关系创造公共和私人价值。以东南亚市场驱动型农业伙伴关系为例说明了这些论点，这些案例旨在使边缘化的小农户参与农业全球价值链。这些跨部门合作的目标与可持续发展目标的若干目标相吻合，例如减轻贫困，减少环境影响和实现粮食安全。鉴于目标受益人（低收入小农户和环境）无法有效表达自己的意见，对于旨在保护公共利益的机制而言，这是一个艰难的案例。我们发现，以保护公共利益的方式调整利益的结构和过程既必要且可行，尽管不容易实现。鉴于目标受益人（低收入小农户和环境）无法自己发表有效讲话。我们发现，以保护公共利益的方式调整利益的结构和过程既必要且可行，尽管不容易实现。鉴于目标受益人（低收入小农户和环境）无法自己发表有效讲话。我们发现，以保护公共利益的方式调整利益的结构和过程既必要且可行，尽管不容易实现。