In the fight against food insecurity, the agricultural and food systems of today face major environmental, climate, biodiversity, and health challenges. Food systems are also increasingly impacted by climate change, while simultaneously contributing a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and certain agricultural practices contribute significantly to the erosion of biodiversity, environmental pollution, soil and land degradation and water scarcity. The precarious livelihoods and social inequities faced by many farmers and food system workers exacerbate the difficulties of ensuring adequate nutrition for all.

The multiple intersecting crises in food, climate, and biodiversity present both an urgent problem and an opportunity to bring together diverse actors in support of a bold proposition: transforming food systems through agroecology.

Agroecology is a science, a set of practices and a social movement1 recognised by scientists, farmers, policymakers and civil society.