• Agrination
Agrination is an initiative of FAO’s Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (RNE) that promotes innovative, practical solutions to transform agrifood systems and strengthen food security, resilience, and rural livelihoods across the region. By connecting innovation, partnerships, and local action, Agrination helps turn promising ideas into a measurable impact for farmers and communities.
Faten Adada, Agriculture and Rural Development Expert at FAORNE, will present the initiative and share its vision and achievements.

• Incontri a Tavola   
Incontri a Tavola is a Rome-based social dining initiative that brings people together through shared meals and meaningful conversations. Built on the idea that some of the best connections and ideas emerge around a table, it creates a welcoming space for people from different backgrounds to meet, exchange experiences, and build community through food. Riccardo Birindelli, founder of the initiative, will share food for thought (and thoughts about food), while serving a selection of delicious breakfast beverages.

EXPERIENCE  Collaboration| Food Tasting

This interactive session will showcase the application of the new IMPACT Framework and Behavioural Design Toolkit through pilot workshops conducted across the Asia and Pacific region. Drawing on experiences from collaborations with FAO country offices, participants will explore how behavioural insights can help strengthen project delivery by focusing on the behaviours that drive project outcomes. The session explores common myths about human behaviour and decision-making, introduces the IMPACT approach through practical RAP pilot case studies, and shares lessons from country-office applications. A short country-office testimonial may provide a practitioner perspective. Participants will see how behavioural insights can complement existing project design and implementation approaches and support innovation for agrifood systems transformation.
Participants gain a practical understanding of how behavioural insights can strengthen project delivery, understand the IMPACT Framework and Behavioural Design Toolkit, learn from RAP pilots, and identify ways to apply a behavioural lens to their own programme and project challenges.

FAO Office of Innovation (OIN), Nudge Team | FAO Regional Office Asia-Pacific

• Consumer views on novel foods 
Summary of findings on consumer views of novel foods, pulling out the key themes on awareness and views on benefits and risks.
Laura Broomfield, Food Standards Agency, UK

•  Berikan Protein Initiative, Indonesia    
Indonesia is one of the world’s largest maritime and fish-producing countries, yet fishing remains one of the country’s most vulnerable and low-income livelihoods, while an estimated 81% of Indonesians experience inadequate protein intake. This challenge is compounded by limited innovation in fish processing, as many consumers avoid fish due to its fishy smell, taste, and the inconvenience of eating it.
Berikan Protein Initiative transforms low-value fish into Fish Protein Hydrolysate (FPH), a high-quality protein powder that can be fortified into a wide range of functional food products with a long shelf life, enabling distribution to rural and underserved communities to address stunting and malnutrition, while creating economic opportunities for fishing communities through innovative products such as those developed under Berikanpreneur, which empowers fishermen’s wives in Indramayu to produce and market high-protein foods for Indonesia’s growing health-conscious consumer market.
Maqbulatin Nuha, CEO & Co-Founder, Berikan Protein Initiative - Global AgriInno Challenge 2026 winner

• Genesis Seeds: Empowering Communities Through Indigenous Seeds and Regenerative Agriculture
Peace Farm's Genesis Seeds Programme, a youth-led innovation that preserves and propagates Indigenous and heirloom seeds while combining traditional knowledge, regenerative agriculture and youth entrepreneurship. Through seeds, photos and stories from Lesotho, participants will explore how locally adapted crops can strengthen biodiversity, food security and climate resilience while supporting local food production and food security. Participants will be able to see and examine Indigenous seeds from Lesotho while hearing directly from Katleho about the farmers, crops and traditional knowledge behind them.
Katleho Mpopo, Founder and Managing Director, Peace Farm Group of Companies, Lesotho

• Research driven innovations from SLU: Low-methane rice and healthy crickets
The presentation will showcase to research driven innovations from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The first is low-methane rice, a more climate friendly rice with 70% reductions in methane emissions. The second is Sci Ins, turning insect science into the next generation of nutritious food.
Anna-Klara Lindeborg, Research advisor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

• Indonesia Representation 

Team 1: Sanku, Tanzania
Description: Sanku builds the technology and local supply chains that enable millers to fortify flour with essential vitamins and minerals, helping tackle hidden hunger across Eastern Africa.
Presenter: Felix Brooks-Church

Team 2: Nurture Posterity International (NutriPosh), Uganda
Description: Nurture Posterity International leverages digital systems and technology-enabled food value chains to deliver safe, fortified school meals that improve children’s nutrition, learning outcomes, and long-term well-being while strengthening sustainable food systems across Africa.
Presenter: Ibrahim Kasujja

Team 3: ESDU, American University of Beirut
Description: The Environment and Sustainable Development Unit (ESDU) is a research and development unit at the American University of Beirut dedicated to the resilience of food systems. For over 25 years, ESDU has linked academic research with field-based action to strengthen rural livelihoods across Lebanon and the region. 
Presenter: Sarah El Khechen

Team 4: Berikanpreneur / Berikan Protein Initiative, Indonesia
Description: Berikan Protein Initiative is a social enterprise with end-to-end approaches through innovative fisheries-driven solution in alleviating multidimensional malnutrition to achieve food and nutrition security in Indonesia. The initiative specializes in creating higher product value by harnessing underutilized local resources. It transforms low-economic-value fish at risk of becoming food waste into high-value, marketable products with strong nutritional and commercial potential.
Presenter: Maqbulatin Nuha

Team 5: TBC

Team 6: AgriKonnekt, Kenya
Description: AgriKonnekt is an agricultural technology initiative that connects smallholder farmers and cooperatives to verified markets, climate finance and digitally coordinated supply chains. It aims to improve farmers' access to market opportunities, financial services and climate-related data. 
Presenter: Godfrey Noel

Team 7: C-SAC, Grenada  
Description: C-SAC stands for Climate Smart Agricultural Compliance. It is a climate-smart agriculture framework designed to support compliance with sustainable agricultural practices and strengthen climate resilience in the agricultural sector.
Presenter: Keron Bascombe

Team 8: Iviani Farm, Kenya 
Description: Iviani Farm promotes climate-smart agriculture and rural agribusiness through fruit and vegetable processing, sustainable aquaculture and agricultural value addition. By processing fresh produce near farming communities, it reduces post-harvest losses, extends shelf life, creates local jobs and improves market access and incomes for smallholder farmers. 
Presenter: Faith Mumo Timona

Team 9: TBC

Team 10: TBC

• Venezuelan Flavours that Nourish Health and Care for the Planet
Showcase how better nutrition can inspire new interpretations of traditional breakfasts while preserving their cultural identity. Through dishes prepared with fresh, locally sourced and diverse ingredients, the activity will highlight the importance of healthy, tasty and safe food, food sovereignty, local production, food waste reduction, and the responsible use of natural resources. This interactive experience brings together tradition, knowledge, and creativity to nourish people while protecting the planet.

•  Indonesia Representation