launch of the note on “Critical, emerging and enduring issues for food security and nutrition”

The note looks beyond immediate pressures to the structural forces shaping food systems and identifies ten interconnected issues that demand attention, coordinated action and forward-looking policy responses:

1. The post-2030 development agenda and food systems transformation
2. Food security and nutrition in climate crises
3. The links between food security and nutrition and the three Rio Conventions: Biodiversity, Desertification and Climate
4. Geopolitical uncertainty and polycrises
5. International trade
6. Corporate concentration in food systems
7. Digital innovations and Artificial Intelligence
8. One Health
9. The affordability of healthy diets
10. Agency for food security and nutrition

Rather than treating these issues in isolation, the note brings them together to show how they interact and reinforce one another. Power asymmetries, gender inequalities, human rights, governance fragmentation and agency cut across all ten issues, underscoring the need to move beyond siloed approaches towards more systemic policy responses.

The ten issues are not ranked. Together, they point to where the consequences of inaction may be greatest, where vulnerable populations face disproportionate impacts, where international governance gaps persist, and where CFS can add distinctive value through evidence-based, inclusive and cross-sectoral policy convergence.

Developed through discussions by two successive HLPE-FSN Steering Committees and informed by public consultation, the note is the fourth edition in a series first launched in 2014. It will serve as a key input to discussions at 54th plenary session of the Committee on World Food Security, supporting the development of the Committee’s next Multiyear Programme of Work (MYPoW).

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