The 7th Edition of World Food Day took place on October 16th in The Hague, the Netherlands, hosted by the Netherlands Food Partnership in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security & Nature. Under this year’s theme, “Partnerships that Feed the Future,” more than 500 participants from NGOs, businesses, government, and civil society engaged in insightful conversations exploring how collaboration can drive sustainable change and ensure long-term food security, healthy ecosystems, and resilient economies.

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Partnering with Nature: insights from biodiversity & food systems at NFP’s World Food Day 2025 Event Report

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Food systems and agriculture in the global climate negotiations (COP30)

These grants are awarded as part of the NL-CGIAR Water-Food Nexus call. The transdisciplinary consortia will study the scaling of soil moisture retention practices for smallholder farmers in rainfed agri-food systems. With the increased severity of dry spells, increasing the moisture holding capacity of the soil works as a buffer against agricultural production losses. The research focuses specifically on socio-economic and governance aspects of scaling soil water retention practices. The research projects take place in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali en Nigeria.

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Six international consortia receive funding to improve soil moisture retention in Sub-Saharan Africa

From 15–17 October 2025, ten representatives from leading Egyptian agri-food companies took part in a study tour to the Netherlands. The visit was co-organised by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Cairo, the Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP), and HollandDoor, and forms part of a broader ambition to strengthen Egypt’s agricultural technical and vocational education and training (TVET) landscape through international cooperation.

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Egyptian Agribusiness Leaders Explore Dutch Agri-Education Models in Study Tour

World Food Day 2025 featured the Pitch Your Partnership final, spotlighting scalable ideas that accelerate sustainable and inclusive food systems. From 29 entries, five finalists pitched live to a jury and audience. Two winners were selected: a Jury Prize and an Audience Prize.

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Meet the Pitch Your Partnership Winners

The Saline Water & Food Systems partnership has been launched to unite Dutch organizations with expertise in addressing salinity (ranging from prevention, mitigation and adaptation expertise) as well as project implementation experiences. The SWFS partnership aims for the development of collective projects, programmes and transnational partnerships to address salinity challenges. In this article we highlight a number of institutions, networks and expertise centers, who are working on this topic on a global level.

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Get to know the international partners of the Saline Water & Food Systems partnership

World Food Day 2025 has concluded. For those who could not join us in The Hague, a free selection of session replays is now available. Explore the limited streaming programme to watch key talks and panels on demand and while you're there, subscribe to our channel.

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This new e-course on Food Systems Finance explains the concepts and practice of food systems and the relevance this has for the public and private financial sector. It will help you to think through how food system challenges and finance are intimately related with each other, and how finance professionals can make a positive contribution to the food system. The first edition of the e-course will start on 10 November 2025. Join us !

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E-Course Food Systems Finance

On 18 September in The Hague, the NL-IPBES Day brought together policy makers, researchers and practitioners for a robust exchange on the newly released Nexus and Transformative Change assessment reports from IPBES, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

Event Report: Biodiversity is foundational to food, water, climate and health agendas

The Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) is a partnership led by FAO that supports countries in adapting agriculture to mounting water stress. WASAG is currently formulated its multiannual Strategy (2025-2031). Its work is organized around thematic working groups - one of which is the Saline Agriculture Working Group- that produce guidelines, technical briefs, and training to help farmers manage salt-affected soils and water.

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FAO WASAG:  Working on Saline Agriculture & Leadership of Meike van Ginneken

The 2025 edition of the AFS forum was dedicated to Africa’s Youth, very much needed to “lead and implement Agri‑Food Systems Transformation”. NFP co-hosted two side sessions and a lively exhibition booth with eight partners from the Netherlands.

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NFP at the African Food System Forum 2025 in Dakar

In the lead-up to World Food Day 2025, Netherlands Food Partnership is launching Pitch Your Partnership; an invitation to showcase your most compelling ideas for strengthening partnerships that drive food system transformation.
The contest is part of NFP’s commitment to building Partnerships that Feed the Future. Pitch Your Partnership provides a stage to highlight creative and impactful approaches to collaboration that can help deliver sustainable, healthy, safe, and affordable diets for all.

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E-course on Food Systems 2025

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FORQLAB Food Losses Kenya

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Food Systems Innovation Challenge

Global Partnership for the True Price of Food

Dialogues and Partnerships with FAO, IFAD, WFP and CGIAR

Coalition on smallholder farmers digital ecosystems

Food Systems : UN Stocktaking Moment

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