We support the EU global commitment to end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition through a dedicated, reinforced science-policy interface and a fostered inter-policy dialogue.
EC - 2025
In October 2015, at the Milan World Expo Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life, the European Commission called for a more ambitious role for R&I and announced an intention to launch a ‘Food Research Area’. Ten years into the deployment of this Food 2030 initiative, European Commission has appointed independent experts to evaluate the impact of Food 2030, assess its structure and underlying rationale, and provide detailed recommendations on the design and format for a future initiative that builds upon and improves the current model.
CIRAD - 2025
In the face of climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, food insecurity and hidden hunger, there is an urgent need to reverse the unsustainable trajectory of food production, processing, distribution and consumption in the EU and globally. Making sustainable and healthy diets accessible to all, improving equity, building resilience and transforming governance of food systems are four critical and interlinked areas of intervention. These areas offer important opportunities for the EU to lead targeted support for research and innovation (R&I) and effectively accelerate the transformation towards sustainable food systems in Europe and globally.
EC - 2023
The Food 2030 pathways are being deployed via Horizon Europe, the EU’s framework programme for R&I (2021–2027), which provides funding to support a diversity of projects and initiatives, in Europe and beyond. The Pathway # 9 is dedicated to food systems in Africa. The report provides the state of play of the implementation of the pathways.
EC - 2022
The Knowledge Review aims to inform policymakers and practitioners about the capacity of digital technologies and digital hubs to transform agricultural and food value chains to achieve sustainable food systems (SFS). The primary focus is on smallholder farmers, fisherfolk and pastoralists in food-insecure and low- and middle-income countries. To highlight the opportunities for and barriers to digitalisation in the agricultural sector, the review shares opportunities, key challenges and lessons learned, and recommendations gleaned from a synthesis of 34 publications.
HLPE - 2020
The report calls for a robust research agenda across all dimensions of food systems in order to build understanding and knowledge and to inform policy initiatives that are most likely to result in meaningful progress in meeting Agenda 2030, especially SDG 2. The report identifies areas where more research is needed.
HLPE - 2019
A report by The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition, July 2019The High Level Panel of Experts calls for strengthening support for research and reconfiguring knowledge generation and sharing to foster co-learning.
EC - 2019
Research and Innovation (R&I) policy framework developed under the current Horizon 2020 programme that advocates a food system approach to structure, connect and scale up food system transformation. Its four priorities (nutrition & health, climate and sustainability, circularity and resource efficiency, innovation & communities) provide direction for open science, research breakthroughs, innovation, investments and international cooperation.
EC - 2016
This document sets out how EU Research and Innovation (R&I) policy contributes to the major global challenge of ensuring food and nutrition security (FNS).1 It is a first step in the further development of a more coherent approach to European R&I which aims at mobilising resources and stakeholders to set out aligned R&I agendas in response to recent international political drivers such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the COP 21 climate commitments.
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