Global engagement

UN One Planet Network

In addition to the country level projects where we work, the WWF Future Food Together initiative works at global and multilateral level, delivering a range of complementary interventions for the promotion and uptake of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns in food systems, agricultural and forestry value chains.

At this global level, Future Food Together particularly focuses on raising awareness and promoting the uptake of the sustainable food systems approach (see definition here), on advocating for more coherent and integrated measures that tackle production as well as consumption (and disposal); and on promoting more inclusive governance mechanisms. Future Food Together advocates these solution frameworks and approaches in multilateral and global policy processes in a range of areas that are connected through food: climate, biodiversity, all forms of inequality, desertification, poverty eradication, economic trade, among other. 

To do this, Future Food Together is engaged in the One Planet Network, providing support to WWF’s co-lead role in the Sustainable Food Systems Programme as well as Multi-stakeholder Advisory Committee member role in the Consumer Information Programme. The One Planet network is a global community of practitioners, policymakers and experts, including governments, businesses, civil society, academia and international organizations, and is the official implementation mechanism of the cross-cutting SDG 12: ensuring sustainable patterns of consumption and production.

Sustainable Food Systems Programme

The Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Programme is a multi-actor partnership focused on catalyzing urgent transformation towards sustainable food systems as a critical strategy to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Through a shared vision of inclusive, diverse, resilient, healthy and sustainable food systems, our partners collaborate on joint on-the-ground activities, research initiatives and advocacy efforts in support of more coherent and holistic policies to address complex food systems challenges. To do this, the SFS Programme promotes a systems-based approach, which tackles the food system as a whole, taking into account the interconnections between the elements and actors of our food systems and the indispensable trade-offs.

The SFS Programme has developed a suite of tools aimed at encouraging and guiding countries and other stakeholders to step up their action in addressing food system challenges. The SFS Programme also regularly convenes actors in its global conferences to discuss and set direction. The members of the SFS Programme also implement a range of initiatives aimed at transforming food systems.

Consumer Information Programme

Part of the One Planet Network is the Consumer Information Programme. The programme is a global platform supporting the provision of quality information on goods and services, to engage and assist consumers in sustainable consumption.

Consumers are becoming more mindful of how their consumption and purchasing choices can make a positive impact towards sustainable consumption. They are now more conscious of choosing more sustainable options and increasingly request more information to better understand, quantify, compare, and contrast the sustainable attribute of the products their purchase. Therefore, brands need to contribute to this shift and integrated variables that can improve their communication and marketing practices. The Consumer Information Programme developed the Consumer Information Guidelines: They constitute a guide for making effective environmental, social, and economic claims to facilitate the empowerment of consumers by enabling better consumption choices. UNEP and the Akatu Institute developed a video presenting the 10 principles of the guidelines for providing product sustainability information.

International Climate Initiative

Future Food Together is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI), which is supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV). IKI operates within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, financing climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation in developing, emerging and transitioning countries.