Informing food system transformation with foresight: Partners adopting the use of foresight and metrics tools

Mohan, A.; Anisimova, E.; Wolday, T. (2024) Informing food system transformation with foresight: Partners adopting the use of foresight and metrics tools. [Video] CGIAR. Published online April 2024. Duration: 2:30. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpBVdyjTA7Q&list=PLM2nmulYUUvm7VLVC_HokLfsdpGDawtu5&index=4

Better-informed national policy choices – Governments and other decision makers in at least five countries contribute to and use foresight analysis to better reflect climate and other risks in policy dialogues and decision-making, including policies and investments designed to make food, land, and water systems more resilient, while recognizing synergies and trade-offs with other goals relating to nutrition, livelihoods, equity, and the environment.

The videos are the result of three years established partnership with technical partners in three regions and six countries. The videos showcase on how the partnership established over the years have yielded the outcome expected.

Together with these partners we have co-created and scaled our tools that are now widely used by the partners.

In April 2024, the CGIAR Initiative on Foresight and the Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS, Nepal) held the Foresight Partnership Forum and Training in Kathmandu, Nepal. The four-day event brought together key Initiative partners from across Asia, Africa, and Latin America to share insights on the multifaceted challenges affecting food, land, and water systems and strengthen local foresight and policy modeling capacity. During the event, we interviewed the Foresight Initiative partners from Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and South Africa and asked them to answer two questions: “Why did you join the Foresight Initiative and how is this partnership helping you in addressing the food systems issues in your countries?” and “How is the use of Foresight models helping you in advancing/informing strategies in your country?”

*The letter of agreements with our partners can be available upon request.