Food Security and Systems
Creating resilient food systems and providing food security to tackle climate change and secure livelihoods
Food security and food systems are under strain globally as a consequence of climate change.
How can we promote more sustainable and resilient food systems that provide food and water security while also preventing issues like biodiversity loss.
Our Working Group
Co-Chairs
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Sue Pritchard is Chief Executive of the Food, Farming, and Countryside Commission (FFCC), an independent, commission providing policy and practice expertise to government, industry, and communities. FFCC brings people, businesses, and organisations together to tackle the difficult issues, stretching the debate with bold ideas and seldom-heard voices. Before FFCC, Sue worked in leadership, strategy, culture, and change, as a consultant and board coach, a researcher, and writer, and non-executive, including non-executive director and then chair of a Local Health Board in Wales. Sue has held Visiting and Honorary Fellowships at The Revans Institute, Salford University, Leeds University, Ashridge Business School, and The Bartlett, University College, London, typically working with consortia of public and private sector organisations on large scale systems change. Sue sits on the UK government's Net Zero Council, is a governor of the Royal Agricultural University and a trustee of St George's House, Windsor.
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Andrea is Senior Advisor for Coalitions and Emerging Global Partnerships at World Vision International (WVI). She has spent more than 30 years turning science into action, working to end hunger and malnutrition across continents. Her career bridges academia, the United Nations, and global advocacy, making her one of the most versatile voices in food security and nutrition today. As a former Professor of Nutrition, she shaped the next generation of specialists.
As President of the Brazilian Nutrition Association (ASBRAN) for eight years and a lead researcher for Brazil's landmark National School Feeding Programme (PNAE), she drove policy change at a national scale. Over 15 years with UN agencies took her work across Latin America, Africa, and Asia, building food systems and nutrition policies where they are needed most. Now at World Vision International, she channels that experience into strategic partnerships and global advocacy to end child hunger
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José Luis serves as Senior Advisor on Global Food Systems for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He is also a member of the team of experts that is developing the report on strengthening urban food systems for the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN). He has been a consultant on food systems for international organizations, such as the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Inter-American Development Bank.
José Luis served as Minister of Production (2020-2021) and Vice Minister of Micro and Small Enterprises and Industry (2009-2010) of the Republic of Peru. From 2012 to 2020, he was Executive Director of Ethos, a Mexican think tank that promotes development and sustainable food systems. The prestigious Peruvian weekly Semana Económica named him one of the 25 people under age 45 likely to change the country’s economy. He has lectured in various universities and has contributed to magazines and newspapers such as Project Syndicate, Letras Libres, PODER, América Economía and Animal Político. In 2023, he was the Guest Editor of a special issue on Foreign Affairs Latin America on food and power. José Luis is a Bellagio Resident in 2024 working on a project on biodiversity and food. He was a Maurice R. Greenberg Word Fellow at Yale University in 2017 and a Draper Hills Summer Fellow at Stanford University in 2018.
Latest work
WORKING PAPER
Food in the UK: Addressing Food Insecurity in the 21st Century
The UK is facing multiple interconnected crises, including supply chain disruptions, insecure livelihoods, climate change, and biodiversity loss (Green et al., 2024:3). This working paper examines how UBS, with food as a central pillar, can address the root causes of the broader livelihood crisis by fostering a citizen-led, rather than profit-driven, food system. It amplifies citizen voices and highlights community-led initiatives that are pioneering alternative pathways toward more resilient, sustainable, and just food systems (Feiteira and Pantzer, 2024; Neumann and Sharpe, 2023:3).