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CSIPM contributions to the V0 Draft of the High-Level Panel of Experts Report on Building Resilient Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition

The High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) recently released the V0 draft of its report on Building Resilient Food Systems, which was open for public consultation until March 4, 2025. This report will be further developed based on the feedback received and presented at the CFS 53 Plenary Session, marking the launch of a workstream dedicated to this topic.

The CSIPM welcomed this zero draft and stressed an urgent need to transform the dominant industrial food system. Instead of reinforcing what has repeatedly proven to be non-resilient, the focus must shift toward food systems grounded in human rights and agroecological principles.

For smallholder farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, Indigenous Peoples, food workers, landless, women, youth, consumers, and urban food-insecure populations resilience is their lived reality. As rightsholders, they are the experts of resilience: peasants’ agroecological systems of production, and Indigenous Peoples’ food systems, shaped by generations of knowledge have consistently demonstrated sustainability and adaptability to the territorial specificities and ecosystems in which they are embedded.

The CSIPM’s analysis of the zero draft makes it clear: the goal should not be trying to make people and producers more resilient to the shocks and crises caused by the industrial food system. Agroecological peasant food systems and Indigenous Peoples’ food systems have been and are resilient. Research should bring evidence of why these systems work, and why they must be at the center of food system transformation.

The CSIPM highly welcomes the HLPE team’s effort to add human rights and equity to the often unprecise concept of resilience. Also recommends the report to further explore the potential dangers of how resilience is framed, and warns against policies and interventions that might place the burden of adaptation on marginalized groups without addressing the structural inequalities that make food systems un-resilient in the first place.

Read and download the CSIPM written submission to the HLPE-FSN consultation

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The CFS released the Zero Draft of the Policy Recommendations on Strengthening Urban and Peri-Urban Food Systems, which was open for written comments until mid-March 2025. The CSIPM collectively assessed the document and welcomed its recognition of the critical role that local governments play in shaping sustainable food systems. It also highlighted the rights-based approach, which is essential for building equitable and resilient food systems, and the inclusion of agroecology—a framework that, beyond being a farming practice, fosters sustainability, social equity, and climate resilience.

In its written contribution, the CSIPM emphasises the need to address urban-rural linkages, inequalities, and urban agriculture, while questioning policies that drive rural exodus and deepen food insecurity.

The CFS Open-Ended Working Group will conduct two rounds of negotiations in June and July to finalise the Policy Recommendations, which are expected to be endorsed during the CFS 53 Plenary Session in October 2025.

To be part of the process, join the CSIPM Urban and Peri-Urban Food Systems Working Group.

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The CFS Advisory Group and Bureau will meet on 18 March to address the following topics: CFS 53 Planning; Strengthening the Uptake of CFS Policy Products; Update on the Collaborative Governance workstream; CFS Resource Mobilization Strategy; CFS Communications Strategy; Update on the UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake (UNFSS+4); Update on workstreams and budget.

Background documents

•  Provisional Agenda

1. CFS 53 planning
   • CFS 53 Provisional Agenda
   • CFS 53 Draft Timetable
   • Satellite Sessions Draft Concept Note
   • CFS 53 SOFI Panel on Regional Perspectives
2. CFS 53 Guide
   • Guide to CFS 53
3. Guide to the preparation of the CFS 53 Final Report
   • Guide to the Preparation of the CFS 53 Final Report
4. Strengthening the Uptake of CFS Policy Products
   • Follow-up to the Action Plan and proposed activities for 2025
   • Intersessional dialogue – Concept note
5. Update on Collaborative governance
   • Draft Agenda for the Collaborative Governance Dialogue on Financing for Food Security and Nutrition
6. Principles for an updated CFS Resource Mobilization Strategy
7. Update on CFS Communications Strategy
8. Update on the UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake (UNFSS+4)
   • Presentation of the Preparatory Process to the 2nd United Nations Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4)
9. Workstream and budget updates
   • Workstreams and Activities Updates
   • CFS budget update
10. Any other business

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