This report addresses the urgent need to enhance food system resilience amidst escalating environmental, political and economic challenges. It provides focused and action-oriented policy recommendations to build resilient food systems capable of withstanding shocks and stresses. It emphasizes the importance of equitably transformative resilience, which involves enabling capacities and agency, and strengthening socioecological interdependencies to ensure food security and nutrition for all, while respecting planetary boundaries.
The report highlights the need to shift from traditional resilience approaches, which focus on bouncing back to predisturbance conditions, to approaches aimed at “bouncing forward” by means of transformative changes that address structural and systemic vulnerabilities. The report underscores the importance of diverse and equitable food systems in improving livelihoods and food security, particularly for those most affected by shocks and stresses. The report also provides evidence-based pathways to ensure that food systems can adapt and transform in the face of uncertainties.
The main policy recommendations of the report include strengthening governance and policy coherence; fostering diverse food systems; enhancing knowledge systems and processes; science-based decision making; and improving emergency preparedness, contingency planning and foresight. The report advocates for inclusive and participatory decision-making processes, the protection of vulnerable and marginalized groups, and the integration of agroecology and circular food systems. It also emphasizes the role of social protection, public procurement and market mechanisms in building resilient food systems – all these efforts being at the very core of the CFS and HLPE-FSN mission and mandate.
In sum, the report calls for immediate and sustained action to build food system resilience and ensure the right to food for all and the well-being of the planet for future generations.
Read about the launch of the report on 4 September 2025
The contribution of current donors of the HLPE-FSN - the European Union, the Swiss Confederation, the French Republic, and the Principality of Monaco - is gratefully acknowledged.
