The Alliance at the SFS Conference 2025

The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT has contributed to the development of the following sessions: 

Conclusions highlighted

Food systems transformation holds the solutions to major interlinked challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition, diet-related diseases, inequality and poverty. Moving towards sustainable, resilient and equitable food systems requires:

• Fostering convergence and coherence across all public policy areas that are related to food security and nutrition as well as other food systems outcomes.
• Tackling political economy dynamics, in particular power asymmetries and structural inequalities, including through transparent rules of engagement and by actively managing trade-offs and co-benefits in policy processes related to food systems.
• Putting people at the centre through the application of a human-rights based approach to food systems transformation.
• The effective and meaningful participation of all relevant stakeholders in policy processes related to food systems, where groups that are often underrepresented, marginalized and disadvantaged such as smallholders, women, youth, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and people of African Descent, are empowered to play a leading role.
• Promoting equity-sensitive measures that link environmental, economic and social dimensions, such as facilitating access to land and finance, promoting approaches such as agroecology and regenerative agriculture, and public policies such as sustainable public food procurement and school meal programs.