Natural resource degradation, climate change and other crises are undermining food systems’ ability to respond to growing global population's demand for nutritious food. In turn, unsustainable food systems globally continue to drive loss of biodiversity and ecosystem functions, land degradation, and GHG emissions, resulting in reduced production of nutritious food, eventually leading to malnutrition, food insecurity, and migration. This vicious cycle must be broken.

The Food Systems Integrated Programme (FSIP), led by FAO and IFAD, focuses on transforming global food systems from farm to table, so that they are sustainable, regenerative, nature-positive, resilient, inclusive, and pollution-free. Building on GEF's integrated programs from GEF-6 (Food Security in Africa and Taking Deforestation out of Commodity Supply Chains) and GEF-7 (Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program), the FSIP will address the underlying drivers of unsustainability along the whole length of the food system, by transforming and strengthening value chains, business models, incentive and finance frameworks, and policy and institutional conditions, all of which support the application of models of integrated and sustainable landscape and farm management on the ground.

FSIP is supported at global level by the Global Coordination Platform (GCP), and it incorporates 32 child projects in the following countries: Angola, Argentina, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Chad, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Grenada, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, Nauru, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Türkiye, Uganda, and the United Republic of Tanzania.