“Transforming urban and peri-urban food systems means prioritizing agroecology, recognizing the rural-urban continuum, investing in territorial markets, ensuring gender justice and recognizing all forms of inequalities, and ensuring that data and research is inclusive, participatory, and considers different types of knowledge as legitimate in policy-making processes.” – CSIPM Vision on urban and peri-urban food systems

Along 2025 took place the CFS policy convergence process to develop the CFS Policy Recommendations on Strengthening Urban and Peri-Urban Food Systems, which are expected to be endorsed during the CFS 53rd Plenary Session (CFS 53). In the context of this process, the CSIPM Working Group on Urban and Peri-Urban Food Systems, who facilitated the participation of civil society and Indigenous Peoples organisations, drafted a vision document that contains the policy priorities identified by CSIPM participant organisations, and a compilation of case studies that showcase how communities are leading food systems transformation from the ground up. The document was also a key tool to guide the Working Group during the policy negotiations.

“The case studies throughout the vision document showcase the innovations that communities are already implementing on the ground. They serve as evidence of transformations occurring based on our policy priorities and should be recognized as such.”

The CSIPM launched the Vision Document in the context of the CFS 53 that is taking place from 20-24 October, 2025, at FAO Headquarters.

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