Myanmar is going through a period of uncertainties, similarly to its peers, in safeguarding its food security due to climate change, ideological shifts and geo-economic powerplays. Additional socio-economic meltdown is pressing historically food secured country which has no major significant issue of availability to find urgent solutions in most of the four aspects of food security: access, availability and stability. Producers are facing multi-faceted challenges to remain operational. Consumers are finding it more and more challenging to fulfill the nutritional requirements. Service providers or enablers are struggling to identify the producers with adequate resource and appetite to deal with them. Development partners are busy attempting to overcome the regulatory and operational restrictions. Financial institutions are ordered to limit the lending operations. Remaining resilient to these complex challenges urgently requires a multi-stakeholder convening at system level to collectively find solutions.

This year, the forum aims to gather all relevant stakeholders to come under one roof to understand the challenges, to urgently find collective solutions to build resilience for tomorrow’s uncertainties under this year’s theme «Building Resilience for Uncertainties». The dialogues will be structured across the three key sub-themes: Food Safety, Climate Resilience and Nutrition. These three critical sub-themes are weaved across the program agenda through different dialogues and discussions.

Full information about Food Systems Forum 2025 can be found at Forum’s official website at https://www.foodsystemsforum.com/

Food Systems Forum 2025 aims to create unique opportunities for all-inclusive dialogues and synergistic collaborations to build resilience with three objectives outlined below.

Connectedness:

To convene key stakeholders for dialogue such as

1. Private sector, humanitarian and development partners to connect for exchanging challenges and restrictions they are facing and the most urgent issues requiring immediate assistance.

2. CSOs/CBOs and private sector to connect across regions and sectors to discuss challenges and lessons learnt.

3. Development partners and CSOs/CBOs to connect on a safe platform to exchange information, perspectives and resource configurations and operational constraints.

Collaboration:

To catalyze the vibrant interactions between key stakeholders including private sector, CSOs/CBOs, humanitarian and development partners

1. To explore the current landscape of Myanmar’s agriculture and food sector including challenges and opportunities at food system level

2. To identify areas for synergistic collaborations with maximum effectiveness for beneficiaries

3. To initiate preliminary conversations to structure collaboration frameworks with further details

4. Strategically discuss ways to overcome current restrictions affecting project activities especially for conflict-sensitive areas

Capacity Building:

Through the lens of building resilience and development

1. To explore the most urgent areas for capacity building for strengthening resilience

2. To connect CSOs/CBOs who are in need to enhance their capacities and donors and technical partners

3. To enhance the understanding of modern technologies such as AI, Climate Smart Agriculture or concepts such as Carbon Credits