Fatuma Abdi is Gender Inclusion & Advocacy Officer at CARE International in Kenya. She is the gender lead for the Resilient Arid land Partnership for Integrated Development Program (RAPID+). Participant of the 2025 food systems e-course, Fatuma - in this blog - brings a unique perspective to food systems transformation – a religious lens.

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Dortea Nakandjibi, a Namibian Agricultural Economist with a strong passion for food systems transformation, is founder and director of Youth Agripreneurs Development Initiative. She is currently a market research assistant at the Livestock and Livestock Products Board of Namibia.  Participant of the 2025 food systems e-course, Dortea reflects in this blog how the food systems e-course reshaped her understanding of agriculture, governance, and equity – and why small, local shifts can create ripples of lasting change.

Small Shifts, Big Ripples: Food Systems Transformation from the Ground Up

Victor Bill Kamadi is a Technical Resilience Livelihoods Advisor at Save the Children International (SCI) in Kenya. His work uses data-driven, context-relevant, and community-driven solutions to design and implement food security and livelihoods projects in fragile contexts. Kamadi participated in the 2025 food systems e-course and wrote this blog to share how food system governance can connect knowledge, policy, and practice.

Kenya’s Food Insecurity: The Disconnect Between Knowledge, Governance, and Practice

Franklin Ondego is a food systems enthusiast with commitment towards consumer food safety. He works at Kenya’s Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) as Regulations and Compliance intern, enforcing horticulture standards. Franklin participated in the 2025 food systems e-course. He writes this blog to tell us why agroecology might just be the path back to resilience.

Rooted in Resilience: Agroecology as Pathway to Sustainable Food Systems

Balance Phala is a sustainable food systems officer and Co-lead for ICLEI global CityFood program. In her work she collaborates with ICLEI regional offices across the globe to accelerate local and regional government action towards urban food systems transformation for healthy people, healthy landscapes and healthy climate. She participated in the 2025 food systems e-course. Balance wrote a blog about food markets as essential parts of urban food environments.

Local Markets: The Beating Heart of Healthy Cities

Jeremiah Akoyere is an agricultural value chain finance advisor currently working with GIZ Nigeria. He participated in the 2025 food systems e-course. In this insightful blog, Jeremiah reflects on the roadside grain dryers of Kaduna State, along the Zaria–Damau Road — a route he often travels to support smallholder farmers. Out in the open yet largely unnoticed, these grain dryers sustain millions.

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Overlooked Grain Dryers Feeding a Nation

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The NFP supported coalition Global Partnership for the True Price of Food among the global leaders who rallied around mainstreaming True Cost Accounting enhancing collective efforts to transform food systems.

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Global leaders gathered at the True Cost Accounting Summit in Rome, April 2025

CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food-secure future dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis. The science week brings together scientists and decision-makers from around the world to advance research and innovation, inspire action, and establish critical partnerships. We hosted a side session that introduces the True Price methodology and showcases examples of true pricing applications through our co-hosts ILRI and GAIN.

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Dr. Chris Béné and Dr. Debisi Araba were the guest speakers of the fourth plenary session of the 2025 food systems e-course. Their presentations and subsequent discussion on governance of food systems transformation are presented below.

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Governance of Food Systems Transformation: Presentations and Discussion (Video)

The NFP Biodiversity & Food Systems Community is a collaborative space that brings together diverse actors to strengthen connections, share knowledge, and drive meaningful change at the intersection of biodiversity and food systems. Through co-creation, dialogue, and shared action, we work toward a more sustainable and resilient future.

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As Ms Wilma van Esch, Head of Food & Nutrition Security at the Department of Inclusive Green Growth of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, highlighted during her opening remarks at the first plenary session, the Food Systems e-course has evolved over the past six years, continuously integrating new elements and formats. What is new in 2025?

The 2025 food systems e-course: introducing new elements and formats

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A working group of 15 experts from Dutch financial service providers, NGOs and knowledge institutes will explore opportunities and barriers to leveraging carbon credits to increase access to financial services for climate resilient investment by smallholders.
The kick-off meeting, for CoP members only, will take place on 14 December 2022.  
The Challenge is co-organised by NFP, Fair Climate Fund, ACORN/Rabobank, Fair and Sustainable Consulting.

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