CGIAR Food Frontiers and Security Program

This program will focus on three food systems of growing importance: fragile and conflict-affected food systems, urban and peri-urban food systems and island food systems. These systems are highly vulnerable to shocks and crises, marked by large youth populations, isolation with limited and resource-scarce food value chains, significant food and water insecurity, widespread malnutrition, and severe environmental threats and degradation. There is weak governance across these systems, and new solutions and investments must be catalyzed to support the world’s most vulnerable communities.

Our work will help with creating 20 new policies or investments, building capacity for food systems actors in 25 countries and encouraging adoption of 50 new food systems innovations. The challenges that will be addressed are;

• 1.5 billion individuals from fragile and conflict-affected areas are disproportionately impacted by poverty and food insecurity
• Rapidly growing urban areas struggle with high unemployment, dietary shifts, climate risks and environmental pollution
• Island nations face rising sea levels, limited resources, malnutritio, and non-communicable diseases