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Food Systems Game Changers Lab posts its Global Open Call for novel ideas at UN Food Systems Summit
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Tuesday, 30 March, 2021, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Bengaluru
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Food Systems Game Changers Lab has launched The Global Open Call. This is an invitation to individuals, teams, institutions, companies and cooperatives to bring their ideas, initiatives or innovations for food systems change forward in partnership with others.
The organisers noted that select ideas will be featured in a flagship publication, and matched with potential implementation partners or investors at the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS).
Sara Farley, managing director, The Rockefeller Foundation’s Food Initiative, said, “Today’s food system doesn’t meet the needs of people or our planet. We need an inclusive approach that transforms the global food system to be nourishing and regenerative while advancing human dignity and supporting cultures to thrive.”
The United Nations Secretary-General is hosting the 2021 Food Systems Summit to spearhead transformation of the world’s food systems to work for people, planet, and prosperity by 2030.
For the past several months, hundreds of groups have supported the UN Food Systems Summit process by developing calls for solutions around 5 key themes or Action Tracks. As the Summit approaches, these topics are being prioritised under ‘Areas for Collective Action' for which innovation, initiative, partnership, and commitments are needed. Through the Food Systems Game Changers Lab, people across the world are invited to join in this effort, to make their voices heard and ideas visible.
It is a multi-phase programme conceptualised by EAT, IDEO, Thought for Food, The Rockefeller Foundation, and other collaborators, that aims to include anyone, anywhere in formulating solutions to the calls for action that support the UNFSS organisers.
Phase 1, The Global Open Call, is hosted by IDEO, and seeks game changers who have the passion, and collaborative-spirit, to take their ideas and initiatives forward in partnership with others and share them at the 2021 UN Food System Summit.
Rebecca Chesney, director, IDEO, said, “Transforming the food system cannot be done by organizations and individuals working in silos. This call engages the global community to share all kinds of ideas and initiatives.”
Those competing to become Game Changers will be invited to continue to the second phase of the Food Systems Game Changers Lab, where they will further refine their solutions ahead of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.
It brings people into an experiential programme, hosted by Thought For Food, that fuses tailored mentorship, facilitation, expert masterclasses, and partnership formation.
In Phase 3, the ideas will be featured in a flagship publication released at the time of the Summit and they will be matched with potential implementation partners or investors. Then these new coalitions will begin the work of turning ideas into reality in Phase 4 post-Summit. Throughout the Food Systems Game Changers Lab, participants will work with diverse teams to develop and launch bold and actionable solutions to transform the way the world produces, processes, distributes, and consumes food.
“Systems change demands a new approach: new minds working together in brave ways to build the resilient and inclusive world that we need,” stated Christine Gould, Founder of the Millennial and Gen Z-focused agri-food innovation network Thought For Food and a member of the UN Food Systems Summit Advisory Committee.
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