How can agricultural and food systems be transformed in a sustainable way?
A big question, an ambitious goal. And yet, transformation can succeed. This website brings different actors together who are working towards this goal.
How can the transformation of agricultural and food systems succeed? And what are the building blocks of a sustainable redesign of the sector? Texts, graphics and videos provide answers to these questions in the interactive Agri-Food Map - for fair incomes, healthy nutrition and an intact environment.
In this podcast series we shine light on the urgent need to transform our agricultural and food systems. Together, we seek to unearth innovative solutions that make agricultural and food systems more sustainable, create meaningful employment opportunities, and foster prosperity for all.
Climate adaptation, youth empowerment, and food systems intersect with challenging social and political conditions. Lucky Andrianirina illustrates how young people in Madagascar navigate structural barriers, translate global agendas into local action, and understand agriculture as a space of agency and hope.
Food systems shape social realities. Whether legal claims can be enforced also depends on access to legal institutions. Camara Castro from the Amka Africa Justice Initiative shows how legal work in Kenya helps reduce the gap between law and lived reality and contributes to making agri-food systems more just.
Disruption or transformation? With the new Strategic Foresight Report for Agriculture and Food Systems, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) looks into future scenarios of the post 2030 era.
More than one billion people worldwide fear losing access to their land. Although large areas are managed under customary tenure systems, most communities still lack formal legal recognition. Rising inequality, concentrated land ownership, and the continued marginalization of women and Indigenous peoples illustrate how closely land is tied to power. At the same time, collective initiatives from Cameroon to Kenya show that laws and lived realities can change. The International Land Coalition (ILC) provides an overview.
A growing number of youth in Africa are landless or possess only informal land rights. However, a new generation is helping to shape change. They are demanding a say, advocating for justice and opportunities, and demonstrating that land rights mean more than just ownership. They open up prospects, secure livelihoods and strengthen scope for action. John World Bonoua, member of the Youth Initiative for Land in Africa (YILAA), talks about how young people's perspectives are changing the debate on land policy.
Faith Alubbe, CEO of the Kenya Land Alliance, has long been advocating for land justice and community rights in Kenya and beyond. In this interview, she shares lessons on inclusive land governance, the role of women, and why true ownership goes far beyond land titles. Her message: communities must be at the center of decision-making.
In this podcast series we shine light on the urgent need to transform our agricultural and food systems. Talking to diverse guests and experts, our host Katie Gallus seeks to unearth innovative solutions that can make agricultural and food systems more sustainable, create meaningful employment opportunities, and foster prosperity for all.
The Nyayo Tea Zones Development Corporation is committed to the preservation of forests in Kenya: The establishment of so-called buffer zones counteracts deforestation by planting trees and tea. In addition to the production of environmentally friendly tea, the project benefits the resources of the forests and the livelihoods of the communities living near the forests, says project manager Wallace Gichunge.
What do chocolate, carrots and tequila have in common? What sounds like the ingredients for an experimental cocktail are foods that would not exist without certain animal species. They are examples of how nature works for us every day, often behind the scenes.
VR glasses are hardly a conventional tool in agriculture: for the past three years, they have been used in rural areas of Burkina Faso and Cameroon as a training tool for sustainable cotton cultivation.
Recycling organic waste into soil amendments and animal feed through a transdisciplinary approach – this is what the RUNRES project, launched in four sub-Saharan African countries four years ago, seeks to achieve. Three of the project's scientists report.
In southern Benin, Julienne processes soybeans into tofu. Rather than relying on subsidies, she has built her own business step by step. Her path shows how local financing, shared risk assessment, and entrepreneurial skills contribute to transforming agrifood systems.
How can food systems be made more resilient? Dietitian and nutrition expert Stacia Nordin talks about diversification, collaboration, and the role of different actors in driving sustainable change – and about what sustains hope in times of ongoing crises.
Development cooperation doesn't resonate in Germany? The Bavarian rural women have a different story to tell. A visit to a training session with female smallholder farmers from Kenya, Zambia and Uganda in Bavarian Herrsching am Ammersee.
In a new study, the international humanitarian agency CARE analyses how the economic and social barriers faced by women significantly reduces the global gross domestic product (GDP). At the current rate, it will take 152 years to close the economic gap between women and men – although closing this gap would be extremely profitable from an economic perspective.
Nutrition rarely fails for lack of knowledge, but for lack of structure. In conversation with Dr. Sachin Gupte from PATH, attention turns to the often unseen foundations of food systems – where climate pressures, political frameworks, and economic realities shape what can endure, and what cannot.
How can food systems be made more resilient? Dietitian and nutrition expert Stacia Nordin talks about diversification, collaboration, and the role of different actors in driving sustainable change – and about what sustains hope in times of ongoing crises.
The International Year of the Woman Farmer (IYWF), launched by the United Nations for 2026, is more than a symbolic moment. It is a political opportunity – and responsibility – for German development cooperation. This is what the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) emphasised during Grüne Woche trade fair in Berlin.
The rural population and vulnerable groups should be involved in the implementation of the African Union's Kampala Declaration on the transformation of agricultural and food systems. This is the demand of sociologist Lawani Arouna, Vice President of the Regional umbrella organisation of farmers' associations in West Africa (ROPPA).
Food systems are often reduced to production and trade. Mary Karanu of Welthungerhilfe in Kenya shows that they also reflect social and political orders, shaping power relations, the recognition of labor, and structural vulnerability across smallholder contexts in Africa and global supply chains.
A Contribution by Carlos Castellanos & Yvonne Bielfeld
The shoe manufacturer Cueros Vélez as a good example of private sector responsibility: the photo gallery shows how the bark of the rubber tree becomes a reliable yet deforestation free companion on our roads.
The battle against hunger can only be won if civil society, science, business, and politics are willing to augment their expertise and learn mutually from experience. There are different approaches and ideas on how to achieve the aim of 2030 Agenda to end hunger – we report on these.
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