Possible partners and relevant networks (food systems)

Global level

• The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and improve nutrition for all. It produces valuable guidelines and policy recommendations on various food system aspects.
• The UN Food Systems Coordination Hub supports countries in transforming their food systems by providing systemic, country-driven, and customised assistance to achieve sustainable food systems.
• The Sustainable Food Systems Programme of the One Planet Network aims to accelerate the shift towards sustainable food systems by fostering collaboration, providing resources, and promoting best practices among stakeholders.
• The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is a multilateral fund for transforming agriculture, rural economies and food systems. It finances programmes and supports governments in measuring results, innovating and working with rural people themselves.
• The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement is a global initiative that unites governments, civil society, businesses, and other stakeholders to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030.
• The Global Alliance for the Future of Food is a strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations working together to transform food systems to be more sustainable, equitable, and resilient.
• The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation to tackle malnutrition by improving the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially the most vulnerable.
• The Agroecology Coalition is a global alliance of countries, CSOs and other stakeholders dedicated to transforming food systems through agroecology.
• The Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) is a global community of change-makers working to transform food and land use systems for people, nature, and climate.
• The Just Rural Transition initiative is a global effort to transform food, land use, and natural resources systems by enhancing resilient livelihoods and rural communities, focusing on equitable solutions for food systems challenges.

Regional and national level

• La Via Campesina is an international movement that brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-scale farmers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities to advocate for food sovereignty, agrarian reform, and sustainable agriculture.
• The Asia-Pacific Network on Food Sovereignty (APNFS) is a regional alliance that promotes and asserts people’s basic right to adequate, nutritious, and safe food, as well as their right to sustainable livelihoods.
• The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is a Pan-African platform that unites small-scale food producers, farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, and civil society organisations to advocate for food sovereignty and agroecology across Africa.
• The AFS Forum - Africa Food Systems Forum is a forum for African agriculture and food systems, bringing together stakeholders to take practical action and share lessons to advance food systems across the continent.
• AfriFOODlinks is an EU-funded initiative that aims to transform urban food systems in Africa and beyond by strengthening the links between food systems stakeholders in cities, promoting food and nutrition security, and fostering environmentally regenerative practices.
• The Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F) is an innovative blended finance initiative aimed at supporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa to scale up the production and sale of nutritious, safe foods.
• The Scaling Up Nutrition Movement operates SUN regional hubs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean as well as national focal points in its SUN member countries.