Action Briefs

The Action Briefs set priorities for each community and propose targeted actions that actors can adopt, scale, and adapt to advance healthy, sustainable, and just food systems. They underline shared responsibilities across communities and focus on overcoming lock-ins and institutional barriers. The Action Briefs are grounded in the scientific evidence of the EAT-Lancet Commissions. 

The briefs were developed with—and for—community representatives through a six-month process curated by EAT, Convene, and global partners. Each Community for Action brought together key leaders with a representative mix of expertise, experience, background, and geographies.  

The Action Briefs reflect their voices and serve as discussion documents to spark dialogue and collaboration at the Stockholm Food Forum and beyond.

All food system actors are encouraged to engage with and act on these briefs in their own contexts, scaling their reach and amplifying their impact in transforming food systems for increased health, sustainability, and justice.

Looking across the Action Briefs: The emerging Action Map

As we begin to pull together the pieces of the ‘CfAs puzzle’, we take a step back to look at the bigger picture emerging from the collection of Action Briefs: what are the synergies and interconnections between calls to action, stops and unlocks? Who needs what from whom? What are the common themes? What is the potential for collaboration? 

Below are the results of an initial mapping of the dependencies between CfAs (figure 1) based on the indicated unlocks, with thicker lines where links are stronger and larger circles around the communities that were most ‘pointed at’ by other CfAs. A few new groups emerge as key players in addition to the CfAs, such as youth, financiers and general private sector. Input is welcome from the CfAs on how to incorporate these groups going forward.

Complementing this map is a list of fifteen Common Action Areas (figure 2) that thematically cluster all of the calls to action, actions to stop and unlocks across all briefs. These will be a starting point for our discussion on Action Day, aiming at exploring the potential for collaborative action on emerging priority breakthrough solutions.