CSIPM contributions to the V0 Draft of the High-Level Panel of Experts Report on Building Resilient Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition
The High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) recently released the V0 draft of its report on Building Resilient Food Systems, which was open for public consultation until March 4, 2025. This report will be further developed based on the feedback received and presented at the CFS 53 Plenary Session, marking the launch of a workstream dedicated to this topic.
The CSIPM welcomed this zero draft and stressed an urgent need to transform the dominant industrial food system. Instead of reinforcing what has repeatedly proven to be non-resilient, the focus must shift toward food systems grounded in human rights and agroecological principles.
For smallholder farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, Indigenous Peoples, food workers, landless, women, youth, consumers, and urban food-insecure populations resilience is their lived reality. As rightsholders, they are the experts of resilience: peasants’ agroecological systems of production, and Indigenous Peoples’ food systems, shaped by generations of knowledge have consistently demonstrated sustainability and adaptability to the territorial specificities and ecosystems in which they are embedded.
The CSIPM’s analysis of the zero draft makes it clear: the goal should not be trying to make people and producers more resilient to the shocks and crises caused by the industrial food system. Agroecological peasant food systems and Indigenous Peoples’ food systems have been and are resilient. Research should bring evidence of why these systems work, and why they must be at the center of food system transformation.
The CSIPM highly welcomes the HLPE team’s effort to add human rights and equity to the often unprecise concept of resilience. Also recommends the report to further explore the potential dangers of how resilience is framed, and warns against policies and interventions that might place the burden of adaptation on marginalized groups without addressing the structural inequalities that make food systems un-resilient in the first place.
Read and download the CSIPM written submission to the HLPE-FSN consultation