Farmers, pastoralists, and fishers are at the core of food systems transformation. Across diverse production types and practices, landscapes and settings, sizes and geographies, they are powerful agents of change, necessary to achieve the urgently needed transition to healthy, sustainable and just diets. Tremendous progress driven by innovations in agricultural sciences has ensured that food production has kept pace over the past several decades and has guaranteed sufficient caloric production. This is nothing short of a miracle. Now our challenge is to not only feed the world’s population but to nourish it within planetary boundaries.

This Action Brief builds on the long-standing commitment by this community to lay out a clear direction forward. The 42 organisations (46 individuals) that contributed to this document represent a diversity of food systems and geographies. However, this remains a small subset of the full diversity of actors who engage in producing nourishing food. It does not speak for all farmers, pastoralists, and fishers, nor attempts to replace officially mandated organisations.

This Action Brief sets initial priorities for this community, while also inviting collaboration from other actor groups. It serves as a discussion document to spark dialogue and collaboration at the Stockholm Food Forum and beyond.