- Consultation is open until 4 March 2025
Shaping policies to build resilient food systems
The CFS Multi-Year Programme of Work (MYPOW 2024-2027) includes a request to its High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) to produce a report on “Building resilient food systems” to be presented at the 53rd plenary session of the CFS in October 2025.
The presentation of the HLPE-FSN report will mark the beginning of the CFS policy convergence process aimed at developing a set of focused, action-oriented policy recommendations on “Building resilient food systems”. The policy recommendations will be informed by the report’s findings and recommendations.
Contribute
The HLPE-FSN will use the results of the consultation to further develop the report. The V0 draft is open for consultation until 4 March 2025. An opportunity for all CFS actors to contribute their experiences and insights across different areas.
The CSIPM will submit a collective analysis. Join the CSIPM Working Group on Resilient Food Systems to contribute.
Read the V0 draft report on Building resilient food systems.
The HLPE-FSN welcomes suggestions or proposals, in particular addressing the following questions (Click to show more):
- Do you have examples from across the food system that illustrate the resilience spectrum (detailed in chapter 3) in practice – from bouncing back, to bouncing forward, to equitably bouncing forward interventions?
- Are the trends/variables/elements identified in the draft report the essential ones to understand and strengthen the resilience of food systems? Which other elements should be considered?
- Are there any additional trends/variables/elements that should be analyzed in the report to understand and strengthen the resilience of food systems?
- How should resilience and the process of building resilience in food systems be evaluated? Which indicators, frameworks, or methodologies do you consider most effective in capturing the ability of food systems to withstand and adapt to shocks and stresses and bounce forward? How can equitably transformative resilience be evaluated?
- Are there other references, publications, or other kinds of knowledges, which should be considered?
- Please provide additional examples that support equitably transformative resilient food systems for food security and nutrition. In particular examples of integrated participatory processes, actions and policies at multiple scales, such as household, ecosystem, community, regional, national, global and from countries and regions less represented in the current draft, including:
- Six dimensions of food security: access, availability, utilization stability, sustainability, and agency.
- Food systems: systems supporting food production (ecosystems, human, health, energy, economics); food supply chains (production, storage, processing, distribution, markets/ retail, promotion and advertising; food loss and waste); circular economies and flows of resources; private sector considerations, in particular, small and medium-sized enterprises; food environments: availability; access; affordability of healthy diets; policy; consumer behaviours and preferences.
- Governance: smallholders, harvesters, food producers, fisherfolk rights; labour and workers’ rights; natural resources, including land (access, tenure) and water; strategy and action; sustainable livelihoods; multi-scale government-led policy; funding; negotiations; action and advocacy; policy sequencing knowledge creation spaces that legitimize, value and empower experimental knowledge and the ways of knowing.
- Rights policy frameworks that recognize interdependencies between human and nature’s rights in food systems.
- Social protection programmes.
- Grassroots social innovations (that can be supported by or enhanced by state-led resourcing).
- Women’s empowerment.
- Scale-appropriate technology.
- Data: publicly available, innovative data (e.g. soil mapping; census data) for decision-making, indicators and metrics (qualitative and quantitative).
- Finance and fiscal space.
- Regionalized and localized trade, equitable global trade, and managing food price volatility.
- Supporting equitably transformative food systems resilience in the face of (protracted and emerging) conflict.
- Managing climate risks/shocks/stresses through early warning, early action systems, anticipatory actions, contingent financing, among others.
More information is available on the HLPE-FSN webpage dedicated to the consultation of the V0 draft.
