Fireside chat: Orchestrating Climate-Resilient Food Systems: From Fragmented Action to Systemic Change

How can we transition to climate-resilient food systems — and ensure that transformation is durable, inclusive, and self-sustaining?

This fireside session explores how to shift from siloed interventions to a harmonized, systems-level approach that aligns investment, data, business models, and multi-stakeholder collaboration. Drawing from real-world experiences, we will unpack what it takes to scale sustainable agriculture and build resilient regional value chains — especially in staple crops — while balancing food security, farmer livelihoods, and climate goals.

We’ll look at:

• What business models actually work — for smallholder farmers, agri-SMEs, and value chain actors — and how data-driven insights, inclusive approaches, and gender-transformative design can help make these models viable, scalable, and equitable.

• How to unlock investment in climate-resilient agriculture, including the role of investment readiness, pipeline development, and reduced financial risk through enhanced on-farm resilience and healthy ecosystems within production landscapes.

• Why collaboration is essential, and how Food Systems Alliances can act as a platform for collective action — aligning sourcing companies, investors, and governments — to support regional production and policy coherence, and amplify impact across entire landscapes