Overview:

Food Systems Initiative

June 2021
Table of Contents

01 Context and Overview

02 Workstreams
03 How to Engage and Leadership Groups
04 Annex

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01

Context and Overview

Platform for Global Public Goods
Mission

The mission of the Platform for Global Public Goods is to accelerate actions
that tackle public good challenges: climate change & environment, food
systems, sustainable development, and circular economy.

The Platform enable leaders from the public and private sectors sector civil
society, international organizations & experts to collaborate through a range of
focused partnerships.

150 50
Business International Government Communities of global civil
Partners organization Collaborators society, innovators &
Engaged collaboration entrepreneurs

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Platform for Global Public Goods
How partners interact with the Platform
LEARN about new topics
MONITOR & CONNECT
• Take part in thematic events
with a curated group of leaders
in areas of interest
• Access and participate on our
digital platform (TopLink)
• Access our world-class
research, insights and best
practices
ADVANCE defined target & strategy
ACTIVELY ENGAGE
IN PROGRAMMES
• Join existing multistakeholder
collaborations and contribute to
working groups
• Create thought leadership (e.g.
review and provide feedback on
reports, white papers)
• Share best practices and impact
case studies
• Share your expertise on the
Forum Agenda
LEAD system change
LEAD AGENDAS
AND ACTION
• Bring your existing multistakeholder,
flagship projects to the platform
• Participate in steering committees to
guide strategic direction of initiatives
• Define, build and lead multi-stakeholder
collaborations
• Champion beyond the Forum: carry
aligned vision and narrative through to
other initiatives, efforts and convenings
• Place a Fellow within the programme
team to deliver impact & gain leadership
skills
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 Food systems transformations are needed
To deliver inclusive, sustainable, efficient and nutritious & healthy food systems

The Aspiration

INCLUSIVE SUSTAINABLE EFFICIENT NUTRITIOUS & HEALTHY

Ensuring economic and social Minimizing negative environmental Ensuring that sufficient food is Promoting consumption of a
inclusion for all food system actors, impacts, conserving scarce natural produced and available for the diverse range of healthy,
especially smallholders, women resources and strengthening world’s population nutritious, and safe foods
and youth resiliency against future shocks

The Challenges
700 million people 70% of water withdrawal 60% more food 2 billion people
in the agricultural sector and 30% of greenhouse gas will be required to feed a world in the world suffer from
live below the global emissions come from agrifood population of 9.5 billion by 2050 various forms of malnutrition
poverty line sector

These aspirations are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, and achieving them will require coordinated action by all global food
system actors to address systemic and interconnected challenges
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02

Workstreams
 Food Systems Initiative
Aspires for food systems to be sustainable, inclusive, efficient and nutritious and healthy in line with the
2030 goals
Aspiration Strategy and Vehicles
Systemic issues Country & Regional Global Food
areas Platforms Systems
A Unique Multi-
stakeholder
Innovation with
Platform to enable
a Purpose Food Action UN Food Systems
 Systems Alliance Summit 2021
thinking +
Food Innovation Food Systems Summit
alignment Protein
Hubs Dialogues
 Impact-led
action for scale New Vision Transformation
100M Farmers for Agriculture Leaders Network
 Acceleration
through
innovation

Indicates initiatives supported

by Food Action Alliance More information here (link).
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The Initiative engages over 700 organizations across the food and agriculture ecosystem through Leadership Groups
Stewardship Board Steering Committees Platform partners Country and regional partnership

40 CEOs, ministers, and heads
of international organizations
provides championship in the
business, policy and social
sectors to strengthen food
systems
Workstreams engage high-
level multistakeholder groups
to provide strategic direction
Over 200 private sector partners
engage on the Platform for
Shaping the Future of Global
Public Goods
The NVA, Grow Africa, and Grow Asia, include
partnerships with 25 countries across Africa,
Asia and Latin America. The Transformation
Leaders Network engages 150 leaders to
exchange learnings and scale impact.
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Strengthening Global Food Systems
Facilitate systems thinking and leadership alignment for an inclusive transformation

UN Food Systems Summit 2021

Food Systems Summit: Five Objectives

• Ensuring access to safe and nutritious food for all • Building resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stress

• Shifting to sustainable consumption patterns • Advancing equitable livelihoods and value distribution

• Boosting nature-positive production at sufficient scale • More information on the summit Here (link)

World Economic Forum is supporting the UNFSS in the following capacities

Formalised engagement: In support of:

• Lead- Innovation Lever of Change • Support development of Gamechanger Initiatives through Food
Action Alliance, Food Innovation Hubs, Decarbonizing Food
• Member of Leadership Integration Committee comprised of Systems, and Transformation Leaders Network, Tropical
chairs of Action Tracks, Levers of Change and Committees Forest Alliance

• Represented on Champions Committee through both Forum
Food Systems Initiative and Tropical Forest Alliance
• Member of Steering Committee of the Private Sector Guiding
Group
• Bold Actions for Food (Nov 20)
• Independent Food Systems Summit Dialogues
• Leveraging extensive Forum platform, Food Systems
Stewardship Board, Friends of Ocean Action, CEO Climate
Leaders and other leadership groups and global and regional
events in support of Food Systems Summit 9 9
Food System Summit: Innovation Lever of Change

Overview

Twin track approach

• Supporting specific action tracks and Expected outcomes for Innovation

gamechangers Lever
Support action orientated sub working groups
•Supporting cross-cutting systemic innovation to promote systemic change
agendas Data and Knowledge +
•Develop and identify exemplary game-
Digital Technological changing and systemic solutions under the
Game-changing solutions which… Innovation Lever

•Deliver greater impact especially for smallholder •Identify and engage with “pace setter”
farmers and consumers countries, communities, institutions,
•Inclusively engaging diverse innovation companies, coalitions of action emerging out of
communities National and Societal and the Innovation Lever
•Holistically foster all forms of innovation and Regional Institutional •Facilitate Innovation Lever session during the
knowledge (traditional, indigenous, scientific)
• Systemically to address across all dimensions UN FSS 21
• At scale to accelerate and deepen reach •Articulate post Summit action and
• Address key innovation challenges engagement agenda

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Strengthening Global Food Systems
Facilitate systems thinking and leadership alignment for an inclusive transformation

Food Systems Dialogues Transition

Food System Summit Dialogues (FSD) : Initially co-convened by WBCSD, EAT, FOLU, GAIN, and the Forum, this dialogue series
aims to contribute towards an international consensus on how to pursue food systems transformations through multistakeholder
approaches with over 30 FSDs held in 6 continents by end of 2021.

In 2021, now called the Food Systems Summit Dialogues have been officially recognized as an effective mechanism to reach local
food systems and a diverse number of food actors by the UN Food Systems Summit. As part of the official Food Systems Summit
process and led by David Nabarro and the 4SD team, the FSSDs are an approach for enabling systematic, inclusive opportunities for
stakeholders to be engaged in food systems. The approach enables participants to contribute to the Summit by building on efforts
already underway, working together on pathways that lead to sustainable food systems, and setting out intentions and commitments in
the run up to the Summit. More information here

The Dialogues are moments for:

• Engaging actors in the food systems approach, in unusual ways;
• Enabling them to explore ideas together;
• Encouraging creativity, emphasizing equity;
• Emerging more powerfully through connections;
• Elaborating pathways, intentions and commitments together.

Three types of Dialogue enable people to contribute to the United Nations 2021 Food Systems Summit
• Member State Dialogues
• Independent Dialogues
• Global Summit Dialogues 11
 Strengthening Global Food Systems
Facilitate systems thinking and leadership alignment for an inclusive transformation

Transformation Leaders Network Relaunch TLN: A Community of purpose supporting the 2021 Food Summit
Key Objectives
• Promoting systems leadership
• Scaling impact of gamechanger initiatives
• Developing self-promoting local models and networks
• Unlocking Systems Influence

Proposed Design Principles

• Be the system (requisite variety, marginalized voices, who’s missing?)
• Walk the talk (embody action track objectives / systems leadership)
• Uplift what’s working (not reinventing the wheel, collaborate across the system)
• Keep it simple (nothing on top, minimum viable structure, replicable)
• Make it fun (human, playful, energizing)
Partner Organisations:
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• The Rockefeller Foundation Harvard University
• EAT • The Value Web
Three initial Impact Clusters defined to kick-start the relaunch include:
• American Farmland Trust • World Economic Forum (Platform for
• 4SD Global Public Goods and Uplink, Global 1. Food Action Alliance: Develop systems capacities for flagships under the Food
• Syngenta Foundation Shapers, Young Global Leaders) Action Alliance as they collectively work towards deliver impact at scale on food value
• UNDP chains.
2. Shift to sustainable consumption patterns and Gamechangers Lab: A community
TLN RELAUNCH in 27-28 APRIL 2021 of systems leaders working towards widely sourced solutions for sustainable
A virtual interactive workshop series, injecting the dynamism, entrepreneurism, and energy consumption.
from the next generation of leaders from the TLN to build communities of impact around the
“game changer” initiatives and dedicated outcomes for the Food Systems Summit in 2021.
3. Systems Leadership Academy: Skills, talent and knowledge collective learning
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modules, peer-to-peer exchange, mentoring and more.
 Supporting Country and Regional Platforms
Accelerating collective action for improved food systems

Food Action Alliance

The Food Action Alliance (FAA) is a coalition of organisations and initiatives who,
through collective action, aim to strengthen the impact of agricultural value chains to
produce food efficiently and sustainably, in a way that is accessible to all, supporting a
transition to healthier diets and improved environmental outcomes.

FAA empowers partner-led flagship initiatives to deliver impact at scale through the
next frontier of innovative multi-stakeholder partnerships, providing a platform
alignment and cooperation in the Decade of Action. More information here (link).

FAA will actively support the delivery of multistakeholder collaborations across all 5
Action Tracks of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021.

Update on Strategy
 35 + members organizations from public, private and civil society sectors
 15 + flagships supported in Africa, Latin America, India, and Southeast Asia, with
Europe and North America in the pipeline
 Finance Working Group Latin America established
 Engagement plan in major upcoming global and regional milestones
 Global and regional hubs resource strategy for coordinating Secretariat to ensure
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FAA and the UN Food Systems Summit
The FAA will serve as a key platform for the long-term continuation, growth, and success
of FSS gamechangers
Flagships must deliver a sizeable impact across the FAA’s impact areas;
This impact must also be clearly linked to advancing the SDGs and in line with the UN FSS objectives

FAA Impact Areas Related SDGs UN Food Systems Summit 5 Tracks

• Ensuring access to safe and nutritious
food for all

• Shifting to sustainable consumption

Economic & patterns
Nutritious & social
healthy inclusivity • Boosting nature-positive production at
sufficient scale

Efficient Sustainable • Advancing equitable livelihoods and value

distribution

• Building resilience to vulnerabilities,

shocks and stress

FAA as a key platform for the long-term continuation, growth, and success of FSS gamechangers
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 Building a Flagship Portfolio
Flagships are transformative, investable initiatives focused on delivering foods systems
that are efficient, sustainable, inclusive, nutritious & healthy

Overview of Flagship geography

The FAA Portfolio consists of 13 flagships with flagship portfolio
a robust pipeline of other initiatives, following
a set of guiding principles

• Locally-owned and aligned with country goals

• Multi-stakeholder, with open and inclusive

engagement from the beginning

• Market-driven, with projects led by the private sector

and rooted in viable business cases

• Globally supported by an international network

providing solidarity and support

• Holistic, integrating full value chains that benefit all

actors in the agricultural system

Note: Select flagships are operating in numerous countries

Denotes flagship Denotes pipeline initiative
 Addressing Systemic Issue Areas
Generate insights, catalyze collaboration, innovation and action to unlock systemic bottlenecks

Innovation with a Purpose: Food Innovation Hubs Developed as a portfolio of gamechanger initiatives in support of the Food Systems
Summit objectives, including the Innovation Lever for Change, and will enable
continuous innovation and adoption to empower stakeholders across food systems,
from farmers to consumers at country and regional levels.

CONTEXT APPROACH GOALS

The rise of technological The Food Innovation Hubs are
innovations present a significant envisioned as  Equitable access of  Enable use of 4IR to
opportunity to shape and  Promote collaboration that is multistakeholder, technology innovations improve resiliency of
positively impact food systems. precompetitive and market based focusing on local, for farmers and food systems
However, food systems are country, and regional opportunities and challenges consumers
behind in adoption and scaling of  Unlock institutional
such solutions due to lack of  A partnership platform that connects across various  Increased investments bottlenecks in support
robust innovation ecosystems at ecosystem players to foster partnerships and in inclusive and scalable of systemic change
the country and regional level networks that unlock investments and institutional technology solutions and
bottlenecks enabling policy  Mitigate unintended
incentives consequences
PROGRESS PARTNERS GROUP
• The Food Innovation Hubs was officially launched (link to press release)
on Jan 27 during the Davos Agenda week. More than 20 organizations
committed to leading the work in Colombia, India, Europe, ASEAN and
Africa.
• The Government of Netherlands has committed to supporting a Global
Coordinating Secretariat based in the Netherlands.
• Bill & Melinda Gates supporting the development of a Food Innovation
Hub in India.
• A multistakeholder Partners Group guiding the development and
implementation of the Food Innovation Hubs.

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 Addressing Systemic Issue Areas
Generate insights, catalyze collaboration, innovation and action to unlock systemic bottlenecks
REGIONAL DEEP DIVES: UPDATES
LATIN AMERICA
Geographic Focus:
Initially, Colombia
Emerging Partners: PepsiCo,
CIAT, Sociedad de
Agricultores de Colombia –
SAC, Unilever, Resonance,
WEF
Progress: The Hub in Colombia will operate as a
cross-cutting lever and will build off the existing
initiatives supported by the Food Action Alliance in
Colombia to strengthen the innovation ecosystems
across the three initial opportunity areas:
1) Food Optimization for Healthy &
Sustainable Consumption
2) Smart Logistics for Market
Integration
3) Information access across the
value chain
AFRICA ASIA PACIFIC EUROPE
Geographic Focus: Zambia
and scoping Kenya and/or Geographic Geographic
Ethiopia Focus: Focus:
India and Under
Emerging Partners: AGRA,
scoping scoping
ABinBev, Unilever, Syngenta
ASEAN
Group, Farm to Market
Alliance, IBM, Mastercard,
Microsoft, World Bank, Progress (for India): The Hub will Progress: Food Valley NL has
PepsiCo, Rabobank, WFP, support the objective of strengthening the joined the emerging network of Food
WEF enabling environment and leveraging Innovation Hubs as the first
well-targeted investments in technology European Hub. Key objectives
Progress: Key interventions identified
and innovation for integrated value chain include: Connecting innovation
1) Digital innovation: Developing an
development in 2-3 states, while actors and clusters within Europe, as
interoperable data and analytics
improving access of technology and well as supporting the global network
ecosystem to offer technology
innovations for smallholder farmers, of hubs
solutions in financing, advisory
especially women
services, and capacity building to
incentivize farmers towards adopting Progress (for ASEAN): Currently
more sustainable agriculture practices scoping a Hub focused on enhancing
in Zambia digital capacities for smallholders
2) Future Foods: Developing end to end
value chain from farm to fork by using
maximum possible innovation
GLOBALLY, a core team along with a transition task force is facilitating the
opportunities to drive large scale
development of the Global Coordinating Secretariat (based in The
progress on Future 50 Foods
Netherlands) to coordinate and scale the efforts across the regional Hubs,
ingredients through the food systems
align with global processes and initiatives such as the UN Food Systems
Summit; and enable sharing of learnings and capacity development across
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 Addressing Systemic Issue Areas
Generate insights, catalyze collaboration, innovation and action to unlock systemic bottlenecks
Future of Protein Universally accessible and affordable, healthy and sustainable protein for a population of 9.7 billion
CONTEXT
By 2050, the demand for meat and protein is
projected to double. There is critical need to
address protein at a systemic level, so that we
don’t fail to deliver a sustainable future across
multiple fronts.
1.
Business as usual is not an option:
Transformation of the $1.8 trillion global meat
industry and demand shifts are critical.
2.
2021 PROJECT ACTIVITY
Objective
Shape and champion the global
agenda for universally accessible,
healthy and sustainable protein for
ten billion:
 Shared vision
 Leadership
engagement
 Accelerated ambition
Leverage the Forum’s platform
model to accelerate transition
pathways and multistakeholder
collaborations:
 Alternative proteins
 Current production
 Consumer behavior
Approach
The initiative will support a multi-stakeholder Protein Champions
Group to accelerate ambition for protein transformation:
• Provide strategic guidance on vision, aligning under a common
objective but attuned to the different approaches necessary for
different geographies and cultures
• Feed into critical agenda-linkages throughout 2020 (biodiversity,
oceans, nutrition), leading to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
• Champion flagship collaborations and movement building
• Disseminate shared narratives and stories
The initiative will support a broad-based network of stakeholders
and initiatives to accelerate Flagship Collaborations:
• Amplify existing flagship collaborations through alignment, new
partners, etc.
• Mobilize new coalitions for action, where gaps are identified
• Mobilize knowledge exchange through sharing of ideas, new
research, best practices
• Catalyze additional investments, creating a scaling effect
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More information here (link)
Place-based action
Accelerating Transition Pathways through Flagship Collaborations translating protein narratives to action on the ground

Given complexity of the protein ecosystem calls for different approaches in different regional contexts,
the initiative will support a broad-based network of stakeholders and initiatives to accelerate Flagship
Collaborations that are aimed at enabling transition pathways

Pathway Flagship Collaborations

Sustainable Landscapes BRA+CO:

Advancing Current
Production Systems
Driving Consumer
Behaviour / Demand Change
Accelerating
Protein Diversification
Carry aligned protein vision, narrative, and stakeholders to cross-house initiatives
SACAU Poultry Solution: (TFA, Nature Action Agenda) and pilots; linked through the Food Action Alliance.
To promote the growth and development of poultry value
chains in southern Africa -from a food system approach;
linked through the Food Action Alliance. * Cool Food
Pledge: diminish
Alternative Proteins Innovation Challenge for the
food-related GHG
ASEAN region (UpLink) (25% by 2030) by
Digital platform to crowdsource innovation and build a helping dinning
regionally focused community to accelerate production facilities offer
Future Foods for and from Africa and consumption of plant-based protein; links Food consumers a variety
Maximum possible innovation opportunities across end-to- Innovation Hubs of plant-based food
end value chain to drive large scale progress on Future 50 that meet their needs
Foods ingredients. and preferences

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Addressing Systemic Issue Areas
Generate insights, catalyze collaboration, innovation and action to unlock systemic bottlenecks

100 Million Farmers, 1 Billion Consumers: Transitioning towards Net-Zero, Nature-Positive Food Systems
The food systems urgently need to adapt to and fight climate change, while protecting, restoring, and sustainably managing the natural capital assets upon which these
systems depend. Food systems are uniquely positioned to do this, delivering significant carbon mitigation and sequestration opportunities while creating multiple co-
benefits, such as increased economic and environmental resilience, improved livelihoods, soil health, enhanced biodiversity and improved water quality: net-zero,
nature-positive.

The key to unlock this potential requires new economics and value models – including, but not limited to, the carbon markets: to be designed, tested, and iterated upon,
thereby enabling critical tipping points for the necessary market shifts. 100M Farmers is a new platform-based initiative seeking to catalyze momentum in support of
specific public-private transition pathways towards net-zero and nature-positive food systems.

Strategic Framework:
Key Objectives:
• Demonstrate the food system’s ability to shift from one of
significant emissions and natural resource utilization towards
one which is one which can mitigate and adapt to climate
change and restore nature.
• Catalyze a global, scalable effort towards incentivizing 100
million farmers to adopt practices which sustainably manage
and restore the land and natural environment, while
empowering 1 billion consumers with visibility, understanding
and access to the end products of these efforts.
• Facilitate collective action amongst stakeholders to deliver on
net-zero commitments and deliver related co-benefits
(“carbon+” ) that support food systems outcomes for healthy
people and a healthy planet.

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How to Engage and

Leadership Groups
 How We Engage Our Partners

100M Farmers Food Action Alliance Innovation with a Purpose

How to engage How to engage How to engage

As a new initiative, we are seeking to engage organizations
who wish to take a leadership role in co-building this
ambitious agenda.
• Join one of the regional lighthouse initiatives emerging:
European Union, India, United States
• Indicate you wish to lead a new lighthouse collaboration
in a new region
• Provide technical expertise and insight on cross-cutting
thematic areas: data and innovation, finance, co-
benefits
• If you wish to monitor the progress of this initiative,
kindly follow us on our TopLink page.
• Join FAA Steering Committee, which is a decision-
making body leading the strategy for multistakeholder
action at a country and regional level, based on shared
priorities and collective championship of FAA members, to
provide strategic and operational oversight of FAA.
• Join the following flagship initiatives currently being built to
demonstrate impact at scale, delivering the next frontier of
innovative multistakeholder partnerships, addressing all
functions of the food system. Regions of focus: Latin America
(Colombia, Brazil, Central America), Africa (East, West and
Southern Africa), India (Food Value Chain National Platform),
Southeast Asia (Grow Asia).
• Thematic working groups will be developed, such as a
finance working group, at request from members to
address specific challenges and developing solutions to
support the work of the Regional hubs.
• Become a partner and join the Food Innovation
Hubs Partners Group to development and
implementation of the hubs.
• Bring internal expertise and external networks to
take a lead role in developing regional Hubs as
well as the global agenda. The flagships are
currently being built and scoped in Latin
America, Africa, India and ASEAN.
• Provide technology and consultancy resource
(including facilities etc.) to support delivery on the
ground.
• Funding support towards a pooled fund that will
support local consultants, technical assessments,
mapping exercises & workshops at the
global/regional level.

Time & engagement commitment Time & engagement commitment

• FAA Steering Committee meets twice virtually, and one
in-person meeting. This community consists of senior
representatives reporting directly to the CEO.
• Partner commitments vary per flagship, required
contribution to the community would likely be on a
monthly basis.
• The partners group consists of senior executives
(ideally reporting directly to the CEO) and experts
that will convene on a quarterly basis, in addition to
specific meetings and touchpoints throughout the
year.

• Partner commitments vary per region and flagship.

The execution teams of the committed
organizations are likely to engage on a bi-weekly -
monthly basis. More information here.
 How We Engage Our Partners
Future of Protein
How to engage
 Join the Future of Protein Champions Group, a
nonmember-based community at principal level or C-1
leaders providing strategic guidance on vision and
disseminating shared narratives and stories. This group
will convene three time per year.
 Get involved in the leadership, development and
delivery of the proposed flagships, or nominate a
promising one (resource dependent)
- UpLink/Alternative Protein;
- SACAU Poultry Solution;
- Sustainable Intensification of Animal-Based
Production in Colombia and Brazil
 Knowledge pieces: the FoP engage inhouse or external
efforts to build out research or white papers to further
inform the actors across the protein ecosystem.
Time & engagement commitment
 Nominations to join the Future of Protein Champions
Group are welcome year long.
 Annual and quarterly virtual meetings: to be held in
addition to specific meetings and touchpoints
throughout the year.
Transformation Leaders Network re-launch
Partners working to redesign this community of purpose to
both support the objectives of 2021 Food Systems Summit
and a dynamic network of systems leaders in support of food
transformation. Specific goals include:
- Promote systems leadership and networks of
collective action
- Enhance scaling-up positive impact of game-changer
initiatives in countries and regions
- Create a dynamic nexus of networks to self-organize,
foster dialogue and harness collective systems change
globally; More information 2016 workshop and TLN
Workshop Video 2.
Update on Strategy: Convene consultative group around
key themes to support 2021 Food Systems Summit; hold
annual workshop of practitioners and networks in early
2021.
UN Food Systems Summit 2021
The UN Secretary-General will host a Food Systems
Summit in 2021, as a turning point in the world’s journey
to achieve all the SDGs. The Food Systems Summit is
coordinating a wide-reaching effort informed by evidence,
ideas, initiatives, and alliances from around the world,
building on existing global events, agreements, and
collaborations already supporting a food transformation.
Key workstreams include 1) Action Tracks, 2) Food
Systems Dialogues, 3) Advocacy, Communications,
and mobilization, 4) Knowledge and Policy and 5) A
powerful digital platform. More information on the
summit Here (link)
The World Economic Forum supports the action tracks
through:
 Identification of flagship or game changers
initiatives through the Food Action Alliance,
 Participating and supporting the CEO Consultations
to a) provide feedback on big, direction-setting goals
for each of the Food Systems Summit Action Tracks
and b) gather input to the terms of engagement for a
Food Systems Business Leaders Network.
 Champions the Innovation Crosscutting Lever for
Change.
 Convening and driving the leadership agenda through
an arc of engagement through major event.
 Food Systems Initiative – Board of Stewards
A multistakeholder champions group in the business, policy and social sectors to strengthen
food systems, linking global-level insight and collaboration to country-led action
● Qu Dongyu, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO), Co-Chair
● Ramon Laguarta, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo Inc., Co-Chair
● David Nabarro, Director, 4SD
● Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, President, African Development Bank (AfDB)
● Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer, AUDA-NEPAD Planning and
Coordinating Agency
● Liam Condon, Member of the Board of Management; President, Crop Science
Division, Bayer Crop Science
● Ajay Vir Jakhar, Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj (Farmers' Forum India)
● David W. MacLennan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cargill
● Tim Benton, Director, Energy, Environment and Resources Programme, Chatham
House
● Gunhild Anker Stordalen, Founder and President, EAT
● Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
(GAIN)
● Narendra Singh Tomar, Federal Minister of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare of
India, Government of India
● Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister of Punjab, Government of Punjab, India
● Jane Nelson, Director, Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy
School of Government
● Johan Swinnen, Director-General, International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI)
● Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD)
● Michael Gelchie, Chief Executive Officer, Louis Dreyfus Company
● Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board, Nestlé SA.
● Mayo Schmidt, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nutrien
● Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Managing Board, Rabobank Group
● Geraldine Matchett, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Royal DSM NV
● Gerda Verburg, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General; Coordinator, Scaling Up
Nutrition (SUN) Movement
● Ishmael Sunga, Chief Executive Officer, Southern African Confederation of Agricultural
Unions (SACAU)
● Patricia Danzi, Director-General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
● J. Erik Fyrwald, Chief Executive Officer, Syngenta Group
● Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation
● Jennifer Morris, Chief Executive Officer, The Nature Conservancy
● Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Global Director, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, The
World Bank
● Hanneke Faber, President, Foods and Refreshment Division, Unilever
● Agnes Matilda Kalibata, UN Special Envoy, United Nations Food Systems Summit;
President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
● David Beasley, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
● Jai Shroff, Global Chief Executive Officer, UPL Ltd
● Peter Bakker, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Business Council for
Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
● Theo de Jager, President, World Farmers’ Organisation
● Marco Lambertini, Director-General, WWF International
● Svein Tore Holsether, President and Chief Executive Officer, Yara International ASA
 Food Systems Initiative
Key Milestones 2021

Food Innovation Annual Meeting

Protein Sustainable
Hubs Steering of New
FAA Action Development
Co Meeting Champions
Steering Group Mtg FoP Action Impact Summit
28 Jun 9-11 Nov Tianjin
Committee 9 Jul Group 20-22 Sep Annual
Meeting Meeting Meeting
FoP Action Board of
22 Jun 27 Aug FAA 17-21 Jan,
Group Stewards
Steering FAA 2022
Meeting FAA Country Mtg
Nature Committee Steering
24 Jun Leadership Sep
Dialogues Meeting Committee
Roundtable
Jun 15 Sep Meeting
1 Jul
9 Dec

G7 Leaders UN Food
Summit 11- Systems Nutrition for
14 Jun Summit Growth Summit
Sep Dec
UN Climate
Forum-led Change
UN Food Systems
Events Summit Pre-event Conference
19-21 Jul COP 26
Board of 1-12 Nov
External Stewards
Rome
Events Meeting
 Food Systems Initiative Team
Engagement Contacts

Sean de Cleene Tania Strauss Serpil Tascioglu

Member of the Executive Committee, Head of Strategy and Global Projects Project Collaborator,
Head of Food Systems Initiative • 2021 Food Systems Summit Secondee, Unilever, Food
Sean.decleene@weforum.org • Food Systems Dialogues;Transformation Innovation Hubs
Leaders Network

Secondments
Serpil.Tascioglu@weforum.org
Tania.strauss@weforum.org
Lisa Sweet Maria Elena Varas

New York
Head of Future of Protein, COVID Response, Lead, Regional Partnerships Jay Shah
and Food-Health • Food Action Alliance Secondee Bain & Company,
• 100M Farmers MariaElena.varas@weforum.org Food Action Alliance
• Future of Protein Jay.Shah@Bain.com
Lisa.sweet@weforum.org
Geneva

Noopur Desai Laura O’Sullivan

Community Specialist Community Coordinator
• Innovation with a Purpose, Food Laura.Osullivan@weforum.org
Innovation Hubs; Transformation
Leaders Network
Noopur.desai@weforum.org

Natalia Suescun Pozas Bianca Bertaccini Federico Ronca

Geneva

Project Lead Events and Programme Coordinator Project Specialist

• Future of Protein • Transformation Leaders Network • Transformation Leaders Network
Natalia.SuescunPozas@weforum.org Bianca.Bertaccini@weforum.org • 2021 Food Systems Summit
Federico.Ronca@weforum.org

Guillaume Saunier Jaskiran Warrik Aanchal Saxena

Operations Specialist (50%)
India

Project Lead Project Specialist

• Transformation Leaders Network • Food Innovation Hub • Food Innovation Hub
Guillaume.Saunier@weforum.org Jaskiran.Warrik@weforum.org Aanchal.Saxena@weforum.org
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ANNEX
 The Davos Agenda 2021: Food Systems
January 25-29, 2021 Summary and Highlights

The Davos Agenda with the theme of ‘A Crucial Year to Rebuild Trust’ virtually convened more than 1500 business, government and civil
society leaders from over 70 countries. The Food Systems was featured prominently alongside economic, environmental, social and
technological challenges following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Key Highlights on Food Systems during Davos Agenda week:

• Global leaders committed to bold mindsets and joint action rethinking food as a driver for green recovery, food security for millions
impacted by COVID, and better nutrition for all with concrete game-changing solutions on carbon incentives, sustainable
production, waste free and nutritious consumption at the very first solution and people-oriented Food Systems Summit
announced by the UN Secretary-General in September 2021.
• In 2021, we need to move to a phase of healing people and the planet so we come out of this on the right side of history, opened
Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the UN. With a renewed leadership mindset and innovative partnerships, we have
CONNECT
a blueprint for food systems transformation which offers gains on gender, nutrition, biodiversity, and climate. Davos Agenda Sessions (Recordings)
• Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands launched the Food Innovation Hubs led by 20 public and private sector partners, a
key multistakeholder partnership platform that will leverage technology and broader solutions to strengthen local innovation ecosystems  Transforming Food Systems and Land Use Panels:
and meet needs of healthy people and planet. Option 1 and Option 2
• Governments of India, Brazil and Costa Rica stressed the urgency to support smallholder farmers and women to help us all make  Unlocking Innovation in Food
 Boosting Europe’s Green Transition
transitions to sustainable practices and healthier diets and invited collaboration on bold policy measures, equitable and fair access to
knowledge reducing the digital divide, innovative cross-sectoral partnerships and courageous leadership from all countries to take
action on food, climate, biodiversity, and health, and put people first. MEDIA
• The UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Food Systems Summit, Agnes Kalibata reminded that 7.7 billion people must  Davos Agenda Closing Press Release
connect to what is at stake, we make a decision to eat 3 times a day, and each time we can make an impact. For every $1 spent on  Over 60 million followed on digital platforms
food systems, we save $6 of the damage that will happen. The Food Systems Summit can drive greater awareness and trust in (Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram
addressing real needs, game-changing solutions from all corners of the globe, many of which exist and when scaled unlock system- and more), 130 million views of our TikTok
wide impact. campaign, with 10 million livestream viewers and
Live Clips on Twitter here
• Tjada McKenna, CEO of Mercy Corps stressed that innovation includes and must go beyond technological advances to take an
ecosystems approach and address wider systemic issues of societal inclusion, new business and partnership models, and F o r u m Ag e n d a B l o g s :
• 3 urgent actions to redesign food . (WEF)
policymaking.
• CEOs raised the level of ambition towards investible and scalable solutions to support farmers and consumers alike and • How to sustain a global surge in innovation.(UNDP)
expressed optimism for the speed of joint action to address urgent challenges.
• New Reports The Supply Chain Opportunity (link) Nature and Net Zero report (link) More information on Platform for Global
• Earning a Living Wage in Supply Chains. (Unilever)
Public Goods highlights here
• Rethink carbon to deliver natural climate solutions.
(Nutrien)
ENGAG E | Food Innovation Hubs | Food Action Alliance | Decarbonizing Food Systems
 Bold Actions for Food as Force for Good
To mobilize multistakeholder action in support of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021
23-24 November 2020 – Summary and Highlights
This pre-event in support of the UN Food Systems Summit focused on Action Tracks and levers of
change, engaging a wide-range of diverse sectors, voices and views. Leaders stressed a shared
need for a holistic ‘systems’ approaches to address interlinked challenges across climate, nature,
food, health and economy, with an emphasis on trade-offs and local food systems priorities.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS: Cross cutting ideas and opportunity areas of action emerging from the event:
• Bold landscape approach on three forces, 1) protect natural ecosystems, 2) manage land
and water, and 3) restore degradation at unprecedented scale;
• Empower and inspire consumers habits and behaviors change towards healthier and more
nutritious and diverse diets;
KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
• Work to eliminate food loss and waste which offers enormous gains and quick wins
• Leverage technology, innovations and finance solutions and sectors as transformative
enablers of change;
• Involve the younger generation to make food systems attractive for youth
• Role of women critical and building gender-equitable food systems will be imperative;
• A reset of investment and reallocation of public and private capital to smart incentives that Bold Action Event Scale and Reach:
enable transition shifts to healthier and sustainable practices and more equitable distribution of
true value, especially for farmers; • 13 co-hosts and participation from ~340 organizations and
• Trust will be at the center of the ambitious joint coordination with dedicated focus and 1000+ individuals from various stakeholder groups
leadership to forge new forms of partnerships and openness to work in precompetitive, risk-
sharing, and inclusive approaches; • Over 50 sessions, with participation from nearly 80 countries
• All sectors can act now with a solutions mind-set, and private sector has ability to make
significant shifts with commitment to regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, water and • Social media outreach of over 2.1 million viewers
waste management, and consumer empowerment;
• The UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 can deliver a common framing to unleash joint • Surfaced over 100 bold actions
ambition and action, based on a science and evidence led agenda.

Co-led by: World Economic Forum, Unilever, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD), World Farmers Organization, World Business Council for Sustainable Development,
PepsiCo, Royal DSM, Rabobank, One Young World, Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,
Wageningen University & Research, and the Government of The Netherlands.
 Platform for Shaping the Future of Global Public Goods
A Partnering Organizations

The Platform for Shaping the Future of Global Public Goods works across close to 30 projects that are helping to secure the global commons and build sustainable markets

• A.T. Kearney • Bertelsmann Stiftung • Dow / Dupont • HP Inc.

• AB Volvo • Bloomberg • Dubai Cares • HSBC
• ABB Ltd • Boston Consulting Group • East Capital • HTC-VIA
• ABN AMRO BP Plc • EAT Foundation • Iberdrola SA
• Accenture • BT • Ecolab Inc. • Iberostar Group
• Acciona SA • Bühler SA • Ecopetrol SA • illycaffè SpA
• Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone • Cadenza Innovation (Tech Pioneers) • Enel SpA • Indian Oil Corporation Ltd
Limited (APSEZ) • Cantor Fitzgerald LP • ENGIE • Indorama Ventures Public Company
• AECOM • Capricorn Investment Group • Ericsson Limited
• African Development Bank (AfDB) • Cargill • Eurasian Resources Group Sàrl • Infosys
• Allianz • Carlsberg A/S • European Bank for Reconstruction and • ING Group
• Alphabet • Charoen Pokpand Group Company Limited Development (EBRD) • Ingka Group (the largest IKEA franchisee)
• Amara Raja Group (CP Group) • European Investment Bank • Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy (Group) Co.
• Anheuser-Busch InBev NV • Chevron Corporation • Everledger Ltd
• AP Moller-Maersk A/S • China Energy Investment Corporation • FEMSA • Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
• Apical Group Limited • Ford Foundation • International Finance Corporation (IFC)
• Apple • China Huaneng Group (CHNG) • Gates Foundation • International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
• ArcelorMittal • CIFF • GITI Group (IFF)
• Aroundtown SA • Citi • Glencore International AG • Intesa Sanpaolo
• Arup Group Ltd • Clariant International Ltd • GMR Group • J. Safra Group
• Asia Pacific Resources International • ClimateWorks Foundation • Goldcorp Inc. • Jerónimo Martins SGPS SA
Holdings Ltd (APRIL) • COFCO Corporation • Golden Agri-Resources Ltd • Jindal Steel & Power
• Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) • Conrad Hilton Foundation • Grupo Balbo • Jinko Solar
• Asian Agri • Covestro AG • Guggenheim Partners LCC • Johnson Controls
• AUDI AG • Dana Gas PJSC • Hewlett Packard Enterprise • JSW Steel
• Avaada Group • Danfoss A/S • HCC Ltd • Jubilant Bhartia Group
• Averda • Dell Technologies • HEINEKEN NV • Kcap Holdings
• AXA • Deutsche Bank • Henkel AG & Co. KGaA • King Khalid Foundation
• BASF SE • Deutsche Post DHL Group • Hilton Foundation
• Bayer Crop Science • Development Bank of Southern Africa • Hindustan Powerprojects Private Limited
• Bertarelli Foundation (DBSA) (Hindustan Power)
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 Platform for Shaping the Future of Global Public Goods
A Partnering Organizations

The Platform for Shaping the Future of Global Public Goods works across close to 30 projects that are helping to secure the global commons and build sustainable markets

• Kirin Holdings Company Limited • Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency • Rabobank Group • Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited
• KIRKBI A/S (MIGA) • REMA 1000 • The Coca-Cola Company
• Kokusai Kyogo • Munich Re • Rio Tinto Plc • The Dow Chemical Company
• LafargeHolcim • Natixis Investment Managers • Royal DSM NV • The Kuwaiti Danish Dairy Company KCSC
• LANXESS AG • NEC Corporation • Royal Dutch Shell Plc • The Rise Fund
• LeasePlan Corporation N.V. • Nestlé SA • Royal Philips • The Rockefeller Foundation
• Lego Foundation • Newmont Mining Corporation • Royal Realty Corp. • Trafigura Group Pte Ltd
• Lenzing AG • Norilsk Nickel • Saft • TriCiclos
• LGT Group • Novo Nordisk Foundation • Salesforce • Trina Solar
• Link Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) • Nutrien Ltd • SAP SE • Tyson Foods Inc.
• Lloyds Register • Oando Plc • Schneider Electric • UBS AG
• Louis Dreyfus Group • Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd • SICPA SA • Umicore
• Lulu Group International LLC (ONGC) • Siemens • UN Foundation
• Mahindra Group • Omidyar Network Fund • Signify • Unilever
• Majid Al Futtaim Holding • Ørsted • Silver Lake Technology Management LLC • UPL Ltd
• Manpower Group • OVG Real Estate B.V. • SOHO China • Vedanta Limited
• Maple Leaf Foods • PACT • Standard Bank • Veolia
• Maxar Technologies • Pan American Silver Corp. • Standard Chartered Bank • Vestas
• Merck KGaA • PensionDanmark • Stanley Black & Decker Inc. • Virgin Unite
• Meridiam • Pensionskassernes Administration (PKA) • Stena • Volkswagen AG
• Microsoft • PepsiCo Inc. • Suez • Vulcan Inc.
• Misk • PJSC PhosAgro • Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation • Walmart Inc.
• Mitsubishi Corporation • PJSC SIBUR Holding (SMBC) • WanaArtha Life
• Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) • PJSC Smart-Holding • Suncor Energy Inc. • Wellcome Trust
• Mitsui & Co. Ltd • PricewaterhouseCoopers International • Suntory Holdings • Wesfarmers Limited
• Moore Foundation Limited • Suzlon • White & Case LLP
• Mori Building Co., Ltd. • Procter & Gamble • Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd • Wilmar
• Mountain Philanthrophy Partners • Prudential • Syngenta International AG • Wipro Limited
• PTT Public Company Limited • Tata Sons Ltd • Wipro
• Quexco Inc. • Teck Resources Limited • Yara International ASA

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