The Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA), convened by UNDP, is a movement of food, agriculture, and consciousness practitioners united around a common goal: to support people from across food and agriculture systems to cultivate the inner capacities that activate systemic change and regeneration.
The Alliance supports people from across food and agriculture systems to cultivate the inner capacities that activate systemic change and regeneration. It aims at establishing the cultivation of inner capacities as a key evidence-based approach to envision and create regenerative food systems, while building legitimacy and understanding for this approach.
Manifesto
How can we unlock food systems transformation, to nourish all people and regenerate the planet? Read the Conscious Food Systems Alliance Manifesto
Theoretical Foundations Report
Research and Evidence for the Potential of Consciousness Approaches and Practices to Unlock Sustainability and Systems Transformation
This Theoretical Foundations Report has been developed for UNDP’s Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA). It demonstrates the need for increased policy attention to the neglected inner dimension of sustainability to address today’s sustainability crises. In addition, it provides an overview of current research and evidence for the potential of consciousness approaches and practices to complement current approaches and unlock transformation towards sustainability
Cultivating Inner Capacities for Regenerative Food Systems - Action Report
Based on the latest evidence, the Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA) Action Report presents the rationale for the cultivation of inner capacities as a crucial complementary approach to activate food systems transformation. Firstly, it presents the need for a complementary approach to existing solutions to food systems transformation and role of inner barriers in achieving impact through current solutions. It then provides the evidence for the potential of consciousness approaches to unlock food systems transformation, and finally an agenda for action through the Conscious Food Systems Alliance and principles for the cultivation of inner capacities. The report also provides links to a set of case studies showcasing examples of the conscious food initiatives by the CoFSA partners, the Theoretical Foundations report on which this document builds, and a bibliography.