Uncertainty and crisis periods generate ideas and opportunities to diversify funding sources, technologies, accelerating innovation to enable agricultural and food processing entrepreneurs to increase their performance and achieve their development goals. The difficulties of the agricultural and food processing sector during this period are due to the crises triggered in recent years, the lack of capital necessary for investments, limited access to the market, unfavourable environmental conditions, etc. The paper examines the sources of financing and new opportunities for development of the agricultural and food processing sector in the Republic of Moldova. At the same time, the directions of policies and strategies targeting the agricultural and food processing sector of the Republic of Moldova are highlighted.