The resilience of our food system is being pushed to the absolute limits,” said Corinna Hawkes, Director for food systems at FAO during the session on Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future at the Brussels Urban Summit. “And we know from our personal lives that when we’re...

Improving environment, society and health while also generating shared economic prosperity is a significant challenge in agrifood systems. Despite the immense benefits provided by agrifood systems, many, particularly the poorest and the traditionally marginalized groups, do not share in this prosperity. Trade, agribusiness, and investment in productivity are some of the...

The FAO newsroom published an interview with Dr. Corinna Hawkes, Director of the Food Systems and Food Safety Division, FAO ahead of the UNFSS + 2 summit taking place 24-27 July 2023 in FAO headquarters in Rome.  

Plenary Session 1: Food Systems Transformation in Practice – Successes, Challenges and the Way Forward will be an opportunity to share agrifood systems transformation experiences; identify best practices and showcase successes that can be replicated across countries and regions; address transformation challenges and persistent bottlenecks that can disrupt progress; and...

Agrifood systems involve complex challenges, whose scale and nature call for a systemic, multi-level and multi-stakeholder participatory approach across economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Multi-stakeholder collaboration therefore needs to form an essential pillar of initiatives intent on ensuring that agrifood systems transformation are sustainable. A multi-stakeholder collaborative initiative can be...