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  • Publication | 2021

Using Agrobiodiversity to Transform Food Systems: The 2021 Rome Manifesto

Bioeconomy

Statement of Intent

The 2021 Rome Manifesto: Using Agrobiodiversity to Transform Food Systems (the Rome Manifesto) sets out three urgently needed commitments to help tackle global challenges including climate change, malnutrition, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation:

  1. Consume diverse foods in diets that are nutritious, sustainable, affordable, acceptable, safe, and accessible to all
  2. Produce food in diverse, resilient, and sustainable food systems
  3. Conserve agrobiodiversity to give people the options they need to sustainably and inclusively transform food systems and improve lives, both now and in the future.

Process

The Rome Manifesto builds on the Delhi Declaration on Agrobiodiversity Management adopted at the 1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress in 2016. It is the result of several months of discussion and inputs from partners to the 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress and designed to align with actions arising from the UN Food Systems Summit and the Convention on Biological Diversity COP15.