The Montpellier Process @UNFSS+4, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
27-29 July 2025
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The Montpellier Process is a learning collective, community-owned process convened and curated by an alliance of partners redefining how we model effective, more iterative, and better coordinated Science-Policy-Society Interfaces across scales (global, national and local), across sectors (environment, health, people, agriculture, food) and across knowledge systems.
Our BIG Message at UNFSS+4
The Feed-Care-Protect nexus challenges will only be addressed when agri-food systems solutions are applied.
Food systems transformation best contributes to sustainable development when local experience is connected with global knowledge and global insights are translated back to local solutions.
This takes effective and inclusive science-policy-society interfacing spaces, starting from where the implementers are, so that knowledge communities can play an authentic role.
The Montpellier Process makes this possible.
Where to find us at UNFSS+4
Across side events and plenaries, our MP Gardeners alongside Montpellier Process Community members will weave the MP narrative, vision and practice into the UNFSS+4 Summit. If you are interested in meeting up, our MP Gardeners Amanda Harding (amanda@convene.space) and Fabrice DeClerck (f.declerck@cgiar.org) will be at the forum in person. Do not hesitate do reach out to them or fill out our networking form to let us know that you will be there.
Anticipating the Future of Food: Science, Knowledge and Innovation for Just Transformations
15:00 - 16.20 EAT, in person, high-level panel
📍UNECA headquarters, Room CR1, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
ℹ️ Hosted by FAO, CFS, SAC, and CGIAR
This session brings together diverse voices including ministers sharing policy action progress, indigenous leaders providing rights-based perspectives, and science and policy leaders offering their insights on effective approaches and institutional arrangements. Such collaboration transforms fragmented expertise into collective intelligence, enabling integrated action that serves nutrition, climate, biodiversity, health and economic development goals simultaneously. Patrick Caron, co-founder of the Montpellier Process, will give the closing remarks.
This session will be livestreamed on the
UN Food Systems Coordination Hub YouTube Channel:
EAT Action Dialogue for National Policymakers
9:00 - 13.00 EAT, in person, invitation only event
📍 ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
ℹ️ Hosted by EAT with its co-convening partners Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT (CGIAR) and SUN, curated by Convene
In preparation for the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission. This EAT Action Dialogue for National Policymakers for countries engaged in food systems transformation policy action offers a dialogue space to actively contribute to the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission Summary for (and with) Policymakers, anchoring it in national realities, strategies and ambitions.
Learn more about the EAT Communities for Action here:
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