5th Collaborative Governance Dialogue on Affordability of Healthy Diets.
The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) aims at eliminating hunger and malnutrition through improved policy convergence at the global level. The CFS workstream on Collaborative Governance for Coordinated Policy Responses to Emerging Global Food Crises towards Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Transformation foresees regular biannual meetings to review the evolving food security and nutrition situation.
According to the CFS Multi Year Programme of Work 2024-2027 and in line with the CFS platform function, the CFS workstream on Collaborative Governance for Coordinated Policy Responses to Emerging Global Food Crises towards Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Transformation foresees regular biannual meetings to review the evolving food security and nutrition situation, share experiences, data and information on ongoing initiatives, and exchange on key issues related to enhanced policy coordination and collaborative governance, with particular attention to the perspectives of the most affected countries and constituencies.
At its meeting on 8 December 2025, the CFS Bureau selected two topics for the 2026 Collaborative Governance Dialogues: Affordability of Healthy Diets and Data Gaps on Food Security and Nutrition. Following a meeting of the Technical Task Team supporting this workstream, it was agreed that the first Dialogue in 2026 would focus on the affordability of healthy diets.
Addressing the affordability of healthy diets is a critical dimension of access to food and a core element of food security and nutrition. This Dialogue aims to frame the affordability of healthy diets in a way that is actionable, relevant, and grounded in equity and the fundamental right of all people to adequate food. It draws on existing CFS normative frameworks and guidelines, including the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition (VGFSyN), which identify affordability as a key dimension of access to healthy diets. It also reflects the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security, which emphasize that ensuring access to nutritious foods requires addressing economic barriers that hinder progress toward realizing this human right.
The session will examine how collaborative governance can support system-wide transformations that make healthy diets affordable to all and all-year round, while respecting planetary boundaries and fair remuneration for food systems actors. The session will bring together speakers from across CFS stakeholder groups to highlight successes, identify gaps, and discuss policy and governance challenges in ensuring access to affordable and culturally appropriate, healthy diets in diverse contexts. Special attention will be given to country-level experiences and to the voices of the most vulnerable groups.
The meeting will take place on 7 May 2026 in a hybrid format, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, at the World Food Programme headquarters in Rome, and online. Interpretation will be available in all FAO languages (AR, ZH, EN, FR, RU, ES).
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