Across side events and plenaries, our MP Gardeners alongside Montpellier Process Community members weaved the MP narrative, vision and practice into the UNFSS+4 Summit. The Montpellier Process also co-hosted the EAT Action Dialogue for National Policymakers: Towards a 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission Summary for and with Policymakers.
Our message
The Feed-Care-Protect nexus challenges will only be addressed when agri-food systems solutions are applied.
Food systems transformation best contributes to sustainable development when aligned to global nutrition frameworks and targets just as nutrition targets will only be met if they are incorporated into Food Systems strategies and pathways.
This takes effective and inclusive science-policy-society interfacing spaces, starting from where the implementers are, so that knowledge communities can play an authentic role.
The Montpellier Process makes this possible.
Our engagement at UNFSS+4
Anticipating the Future of Food: Science, Knowledge and Innovation for Just Transformations
Tuesday, 29. July, 15:00 - 16.20 EAT, in person, high-level panel | UNECA headquarters, Room CR1, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Hosted by FAO, CFS, SAC, and CGIAR
This session brought together diverse voices including ministers sharing policy action progress, indigenous leaders providing rights-based perspectives, and science and policy leaders offering their insights on effective approaches and institutional arrangements. Such collaboration transforms fragmented expertise into collective intelligence, enabling integrated action that serves nutrition, climate, biodiversity, health and economic development goals simultaneously. Patrick Caron, co-founder of the Montpellier Process, will give the closing remarks.
EAT Action Dialogue for National Policymakers
Wednesday, 30 July, 9:00 - 13.00 EAT, in person, invitation only event | ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Hosted by EAT with its co-convening partners Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT (CGIAR) and SUN, curated by Convene
In preparation for the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission, this EAT Action Dialogue for national policymakers from countries engaged in food systems transformation policy action provided a space for dialogue and active contribution to the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission Summary for (and with) Policymakers, grounding it in national realities, strategies, and ambitions.
Outcomes
The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission Summary for and with Policymakers
This summary translates the latest 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission evidence into practical guidance for policymakers. Co-developed by scientists, policymakers, and practitioners from over 30 countries through the Policymakers Community for Action, it outlines 35 priority actions to help build healthier, more sustainable, equitable, and resilient food systems.