Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030

Kate R. Schneider; Roseline Remans; Tesfaye Hailu Bekele; Destan Aytekin; Piero Conforti; Shouro Dasgupta; Fabrice DeClerck; Deviana Dewi; Carola Fabi; Jessica A. Gephart; Yuta J. Masuda; Rebecca McLaren; Michaela Saisana; Nancy Aburto; Ramya Ambikapathi; Mariana Arellano Rodriguez; Simon Barquera; Jane Battersby; Ty Beal; Christophe Béné; Carlo Cafiero; Christine Campeau; Patrick Caron; Andrea Cattaneo; Jeroen Candel; Namukolo Covic; Inmaculada del Pino Alvarez; Ana Paula Dominguez Barreto; Ismahane Elouafi; Tyler J. Frazier; Alexander Fremier; Pat Foley; Christopher D. Golden; Carlos Gonzalez Fischer; Alejandro Guarin; Sheryl Hendriks; Anna Herforth; Maddalena Honorati; Jikun Huang; Yonas Getaneh; Gina Kennedy; Amos Laar; Rattan Lal; Preetmoninder Lidder; Getachew Legese Feye; Brent Loken; Hazel Malapit; Quinn Marshall; Kalkidan A. Mulatu; Ana Munguia; Stella Nordhagen; Danielle Resnick; Diana Suhardiman; U. Rashid Sumaila; Bangyao Sun; Belay Terefe Mengesha; Maximo Torero Cullen; Francesco N. Tubiello; Corné van Dooren; Isabel Valero Morales; Jose Luis Vivero-Pol; Patrick Webb; Keith Wiebe; Lawrence Haddad; Mario Herrero; Jose Rosero Moncayo; Jessica Fanzo

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Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030

Kate R. Schneider, Roseline Remans, Tesfaye Hailu Bekele, Destan Aytekin, Piero Conforti, Shouro Dasgupta, Fabrice DeClerck, Deviana Dewi, Carola Fabi, Jessica A. Gephart, Yuta J. Masuda, Rebecca McLaren, Michaela Saisana, Nancy Aburto, Ramya Ambikapathi, Mariana Arellano Rodriguez, Simon Barquera, Jane Battersby, Ty Beal, Christophe BénéCarlo Cafiero, Christine Campeau, Patrick Caron, Andrea Cattaneo, Jeroen Candel, Namukolo Covic, Inmaculada del Pino Alvarez, Ana Paula Dominguez Barreto, Ismahane Elouafi, Tyler J. Frazier, Alexander Fremier, Pat Foley, Christopher D. Golden, Carlos Gonzalez Fischer, Alejandro Guarin, Sheryl Hendriks, Anna Herforth, Maddalena Honorati, Jikun Huang, Yonas Getaneh, Gina Kennedy, Amos Laar, Rattan Lal, Preetmoninder Lidder, Getachew Legese Feye, Brent Loken, Hazel Malapit, Quinn Marshall, Kalkidan A. Mulatu, Ana Munguia, Stella Nordhagen, Danielle Resnick, Diana Suhardiman, U. Rashid Sumaila, Bangyao Sun, Belay Terefe Mengesha, Maximo Torero Cullen, Francesco N. Tubiello, Corné van Dooren, Isabel Valero Morales, Jose Luis Vivero-Pol, Patrick Webb, Keith Wiebe, Lawrence Haddad, Mario Herrero, Jose Rosero Moncayo, Jessica Fanzo

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Due to complex interactions, changes in any one area of food systems are likely to impact—and possibly depend on—changes in other areas. Here we present the first annual monitoring update of the indicator framework proposed by the Food Systems Countdown Initiative, with new qualitative analysis elucidating interactions across indicators. Since 2000, we find that 20 of 42 indicators with time series have been trending in a desirable direction, indicating modest positive change. Qualitative expert elicitation assessed governance and resilience indicators to be most connected to other indicators across themes, highlighting entry points for action—particularly governance action. Literature review and country case studies add context to the assessed interactions across diets, environment, livelihoods, governance and resilience indicators, helping different actors understand and navigate food systems towards desirable change.

Original language	English
Article number	102163
Pages (from-to)	105-116
Number of pages	12
Journal	Nature Food
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01109-4
State	Published - Jan 2025

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We acknowledge all the participants of the expert elicitation workshops in Ethiopia, Mexico and the Netherlands. The full list of participants is available in . We also thank I. Vlad of the World Cancer Research Fund for her collaboration and conceptual validation in the revision to the health-related food environment policies indicator. Funding from GAIN Nourishing Food Pathways program, jointly funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; the European Union; the government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada; Irish Aid through the Development Cooperation and Africa Division; and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs was awarded to K.R.S., S.N., T.B., R.M., D.A., D.D. and B.S. Joint funding from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Cornell University and Columbia University was awarded to R.R. and T.H.B.

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Schneider, K. R., Remans, R., Bekele, T. H., Aytekin, D., Conforti, P., Dasgupta, S., DeClerck, F., Dewi, D., Fabi, C., Gephart, J. A., Masuda, Y. J., McLaren, R., Saisana, M., Aburto, N., Ambikapathi, R., Arellano Rodriguez, M., Barquera, S., Battersby, J., Beal, T., ... Fanzo, J. (2025). Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030. Nature Food, 6(1), 105-116. Article 102163. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01109-4

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