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Alison Blay-Palmer leads the HLPE-FNS drafting committee for Building Resilient Food Systems Report

 

The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) has been requested by The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to produce a report on “Building resilient food systems” to be presented at the 53rd plenary session of the CFS in October 2025.

The drafting team to work on the report was selected based on a rigorous selection process, which includes general principles of scientific and technical relevance and regional expertise. Alison Blay-Palmer was selected to lead the team bringing her expertise on sustainable food systems, biodiversity, community resilience, civil society engagement and innovative governance. 

The drafting team includes 10 experts from all over the globe with expertise in different disciplines. 

  • Colin Anderson
  • Philip Antwi-Agyei
  • Garima Bhalla
  • Lídia Cabral
  • Francisco Javier Espinosa Garcia
  • Tomaso Ferrando
  • Isabel Madzorera
  • Tammara Soma
  • Monika Zurek
  • Paola Termine (Secretariat) 
  • Johanna Wilkes (research assistant)

The Waterloo Region Record published an article WLU prof. part of team looking at resilient food systems  quoting Blay-Palmer on the importance of the report:

“One of the big goals is to consider questions of equity as part of resilience and transformation because one of the challenges that we have in the global food system is that more than three billion people can’t afford a healthy diet, including people in Canada."

As the committee leader, Blay-Palmer faces the task of ensuring that the report is coherent, doesn’t have any huge gaps and addresses all of the key issues.

 

Public Consultation on the first draft of the report is open until March 4, 2025

As part of the report development process, the HLPE-FSN invites the public to provide inputs, suggestions, and comments through an e-consultation on version 0 (V0 draft) of the report. E-consultations are a key part of the inclusive and knowledge-based dialogue between the HLPE-FSN Steering Committee, the drafting team, and the scientific and knowledge community at large.

Questions to guide the e-consultation are available on the CFS-HLPE website. 

Comments can be submitted through an online form. 

 

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