Planning Sustainable Food Systems 2025

🌱 Planning Sustainable Food Systems: Building Resilient Futures

Shaping the Future of Food

Food systems across the globe are facing unprecedented pressure. Climate change, biodiversity loss, urban sprawl, and deepening social inequalities are all exposing the vulnerabilities in how we produce, distribute, and consume food. While global supply chains have delivered convenience and abundance to some, they have also driven environmental degradation, food insecurity, and economic exclusion.

At the same time, a staggering one-third of all food produced is lost or wasted, even as millions of people remain undernourished or struggle to access affordable, nutritious food. The need to reimagine and redesign our food systems is both urgent and essential.

Why Planning Matters

Food is intrinsically linked to the way we shape our cities, plan our rural landscapes, and structure our economies. Strategic planning offers a vital framework for tackling these complex challenges in a joined-up and sustainable manner. Whether it’s safeguarding agricultural land, promoting equitable access to healthy food in urban areas, or supporting circular economies, planning plays a pivotal role.

This event will explore how integrated planning—across disciplines, sectors and scales—can help build food systems that are sustainable, resilient, and inclusive. Delegates will gain insight into policies and planning strategies that balance environmental responsibility with economic opportunity, and social justice with positive health outcomes.

About the Event

Planning Sustainable Food Systems is a global gathering of leading voices from sustainability, policy, agriculture, nutrition, public health, and community development. Through keynote addresses, panel discussions and knowledge-sharing sessions, the event will delve into the tools, partnerships, and innovations shaping the future of food.

Themes will range from agroecology and local food economies, to food system data and innovation, dietary health, and indigenous food sovereignty. The event will highlight practical and policy-led approaches to transforming food systems in both rural and urban settings.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to network with peers, exchange experiences, and form collaborations that inspire real-world action.

Who Should Attend?

This event welcomes a broad spectrum of participants, including urban and regional planners, policy advisors, researchers, food producers, community leaders, health and nutrition specialists, and others with a stake in the future of food.

Whether you are working on local projects or shaping national strategy, this forum will provide the knowledge, tools, and connections needed to drive meaningful change.

Agenda

13:00-13:05 Welcome – Dr Ifeyinwa Kanu – IntelliDigest

13:05-14:00 Thoughts on Planning Sustainable Food Systems by Stakeholders across the Food System.

14:00-14:10 Break

14:10-15:00 An Introduction to Balanced Bites – Food Security Fund – Dr Ifeyinwa Kanu – IntelliDigest + Q&A

15:00-15:55 Activities on Balanced Bites – Food Security Fund

15:55-16:00 Closing remark

Join the Conversation

The challenges facing our food systems are interconnected and complex. But with thoughtful planning, collaborative dialogue, and bold innovation, we can reshape them for the better.

Join us and be part of a global movement to plan for sustainable, resilient, and equitable food systems.

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