Abstract. The United Nations (UN) chose Uruguay as the first case study for implementing a new set of post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), under the Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems (SAFS) thematic network of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), and the support of the Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationals (IDDRI). In 2006, the international team in charge of the initiative issued the first report with the Agricultural Transformation Pathways (ATP) for Uruguay and the other two selected study cases:U.K. and China.