Food Forever Initiative

In September 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, containing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved over the next 15 years. The main objectives of the SDGs are to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change. The UN Resolution states, “this Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity.”

The Crop Trust recognizes that agriculture underpins these objectives.  Crop diversity in particular is the key to transform our food systems to become more sustainable and resilient despite the challenges imposed by climate change and a growing population.

Target 2.5 of the SDGs specifically recognizes the importance of agricultural biodiversity for this purpose:

But there is one major problem with this vision: the world is losing agricultural biodiversity every day, and once lost it cannot be recovered. This is why the Crop Trust launched The Food Forever Initiative: Biodiversity for Resilient Food Systems, a public awareness campaign. The Crop Trust, in collaboration with the Government of the Netherlands, provides the secretariat function and operational support to the initiative.

Food Forever brings together prominent individuals and organizations contributing to the implementation of SDG Target 2.5 to raise awareness on the fundamental importance of crop and livestock diversity. Food Forever Champions include leaders from governments, businesses, civil society and academia. Her Excellency Mercedes Aráoz, Vice-President of Peru, has graciously agreed to chair this Initiative.

Food Forever seeks to communicate the urgency of conserving and using agricultural biodiversity to new audiences.

Have you seen our Biodiversity for Resilience micro-video series?

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Campaigns

The Food Forever Experiences

The Food Forever Experience is an international event series that gives a glimpse of the future of food. By working with innovative chefs to cook up lesser-known ingredients, we plant the seed for a more diverse, sustainable, and delicious future. Since the first Experience in New York in September 2018, world-renowned chefs and eaters have gathered in cities such as Chicago, London, Stockholm and Abu Dhabi to taste the future of food.

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Chefs: 2030 for 2030

Chefs: 2030 for 2030 is a global campaign in partnership with the Chefs’ Manifesto that calls on chefs to advocate for the amazing wealth of diversity within our food system and to put it to use in their kitchens and beyond. The campaign’s aim is to inspire over 2,030 chefs to champion biodiversity by 2030 – the target year for achieving UN SDG 2 - Zero Hunger.

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