Session Overview

This session addresses the critical Science-Policy-Society interfacing gap in food systems research and practice. By mobilizing knowledge co-creation across actors, sectors and scales, it demonstrates how inclusive collaboration accelerates evidence-based food systems transformation by connecting local experience with global knowledge and translating global insights back to local solutions. The session brings together diverse voices including ministers sharing policy action, Indigenous leaders providing rights-based perspectives, and science and policy leaders offering insights on effective approaches and institutional arrangements. Such collaboration transforms fragmented expertise into collective intelligence, enabling integrated action serving nutrition, climate, biodiversity, health and economic development goals simultaneously. Drawing from stories of progress, the session showcases how evidence-based interventions achieve multiple outcomes and demonstrates how diverse knowledge systems drive multi-sector partnerships, establishing pathways for sustained engagement towards SDG achievement while ensuring locally appropriate, rights-based solutions.