Read the CSIPM collective input to the consultation
Artificial intelligence and digital technologies are already transforming food systems and daily lives. For peasants, smallholder farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists, Indigenous Peoples, women and youth, the stakes are high: these technologies can deepen power concentration, land and resource grabbing and the erosion of sovereignty, excluding the peoples whose knowledge and labour sustain food systems. At the same time, community-led initiatives show how these technologies can support self-determination, peasant and Indigenous knowledge and innovation. Rights-holders must be at the centre of any decision-making on the use of these technologies, and this open consultation is an opportunity to engage.
The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN), the independent science–policy body of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), has published a draft background note on AI, digitalization and data governance for open consultation until 15 June 2026. The note will inform the CFS High-Level Forum (HLF) on 30 June, whose outcomes can contribute to identifying key messages and policy considerations for future discussions or potential workstreams of the CFS.
Read the HLPE-FSN draft note
How to participate in the HLPE e-consultation
Deadline for submissions: 15 June 2026 (23:59 CEST)
The HLPE-FSN is inviting written inputs in English, French and Spanish, regarding the overall orientation of the note and experiences on AI, digitalization and data governance in food systems.
Questions to guide the e-consultation
– Share your feedback on the overall orientation of the note:
- Are the issues identified by the HLPE-FSN the most important issues related to Artificial Intelligence, digitalization and data governance affecting food security and nutrition, globally and in specific contexts?
- Are there any other key issues that should be added and elaborated? If yes, please provide a justification of why they are important, together with relevant literature and data.
– Share your inputs and experience on Artificial Intelligence, digitalization and data governance in food systems:
- Are the issues identified fully capturing the links with food security and nutrition (FSN) outcomes?
- Is there any aspect of direct or indirect FSN outcome that should be further elaborated?
- Is there any example or case study that deserves to be mentioned?
- In particular, do you have examples of effective policies to improve FSN outcomes of the use of Artificial Intelligence, digitalization and data governance in food systems?
- Is there any missing reference to key literature and data?
Submit your contribution directly through the HLPE form before 15 June 2026 (23:59 CEST).
Contribute through the CSIPM
Deadline: 10 June 2026.
The CSIPM Data Working Group is coordinating a collective input to this consultation. Join the Working Group and share your inputs by 10 June (five days before the official deadline) so the CSIPM can consolidate a contribution.