IUCN engagement in food and agricultural systems
IUCN’s 1948 founding Vision of a just world that values and conserves nature remains our Compass.
Food and agriculture will play a vital part in this future. IUCN’s 20 Year Vision to 2045 introduces 8 global transformations needed to achieve it, including Food systems and Sustainable Agriculture. Here, IUCN’s Secretariat will work with Members and Commissions to catalyse food and agricultural systems that value and conserve nature, while safeguarding human wellbeing and societal benefits.
How will we achieve this? In the next 4 years, through its 2026-2029 Programme, IUCN will advance its vision by achieving significant progress in establishing sustainable and nature-positive multifunctional agricultural landscapes, ones which sustainably and equitably use, conserve and restore biodiversity and ecosystem integrity, and safeguard food security, nutrition and local livelihoods.
Our roadmap for this journey is our Theory of Change.
We show our Theory of Change as a series of concentric circles, with each circle driving change in the next layer. At the centre (dark green), IUCN applies its catalytic roles to support the momentum for change for a wide range of stakeholders (listed at the foot of the graphic) who co-design and implement solutions and initiatives. These catalyse change in 4 interconnected solution areas (yellow) which combine together to add up to our 4-year ambition in the outer white circle. This change process will move Food and Agricultural Systems from the unsustainable and degraded state shown on the left-hand side to the positive situation shown on the right.
