Food systems play a key role in many of today’s global challenges – from rising food insecurity and climate instability, to biodiversity loss and socio-economic inequality. Transforming these systems is therefore also imperative to addressing these other issues. Achieving such transformation requires more than technical solutions; it demands long-term thinking, inclusive dialogue, and strategic coordination across sectors and scales.
To meet this need, Foresight4Food is proud to launch the Foresight4Food Process Guide & Toolkit for Food Systems Change—an important resource designed to equip stakeholders with the tools, methods, and frameworks needed to imagine, explore and shape alternative food futures. This toolkit enables governments, researchers, civil society, and private actors to engage in evidence-based foresight, assess future risks and opportunities, and develop shared visions for just and resilient food systems.
Rooted in real-world experience and developed through the Foresight for Food Systems Transformation (FoSTr) Programme—a country-led, multi-stakeholder foresight process that assists national food systems transformation in Bangladesh, Jordan, Kenya and Uganda—the guide provides a clear, structured process that helps stakeholders move from understanding the system, to shaping future scenarios, to mobilising action.
The process is organised into four strategic phases, each of which contains a selection of tried and tested practical, participatory tools and methods to guide stakeholders in better understanding the current situation and collectively shaping a different future for food.
- Scope the process
- Map the food system
- Explore future scenarios
- Mobilise for systems change
The Foresight4Food Initiative also provides access to technical support, peer learning opportunities, and a vibrant global community working toward more sustainable, equitable and future-fit food systems.
Download the Foresight4Food Systems Change Process Guide here.