Conscious Food Systems Alliance
Overview
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Founded Since 1850
Company Description
The Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA), 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.
CoFSA does this by:​
- Convening a Community of Practice and Learning:Â CoFSA brings together an intentional community of peers, supported by a collaborative digital platform, where individuals and organizations can connect, learn and exchange knowledge, support and inspire each other, and collaborate to build conscious food systems.
- Pioneering the application of consciousness approaches and practices:Â across food systems, through a global portfolio of interventions, including the delivery of trainings, coaching and facilitation services, supported by research and learning frameworks.Â
Our Values
- Bringing our whole selves to this work: emotional, embodied, and authentic
- Willingness to undertake inner work
- Equity, inclusivity and acknowledgement of power dynamics
- Deep listening
- Valuing diverse points of view
- Embracing complexity and working with emergence
CoFSA is rooted in the understanding that overcoming barriers to food systems transformation requires investment in the cultivation of the inner capacities of stakeholders across food systems.
Since October 2020, UNDP has worked towards this aim, with a diverse range of stakeholders to design and convene the Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA).
The vision of the Alliance is anchored in the realization that the current failure of food systems to deliver food for human and planetary flourishing calls for innovative approaches that address the structural barriers to transformation and activate deeper levels of change. We have the science, technical capacity and technological tools; however, these external solutions are not delivering the impact needed.
To transform food systems, we must work not only on policy, research and project implementation, but also on the inner drivers of individual, collective and institutional behaviours. Increased connection to ourselves, each other and nature can activate the transformative qualities and skills needed to support the transition to regenerative food systems.
Integrating inner capacity building with ongoing investment in technical solutions can unlock widespread transformation towards more regenerative systems.
CoFSA’s manifesto is a call to reconnection and collaboration for all food and agriculture stakeholders who are open to the potential of consciousness approaches to support systems transformation.
CoFSA emerged from a realization that technical solutions alone are not enough to bring about systemic change, and a collective commitment by food, agriculture and consciousness practitioners to explore the role and potential of consciousness approaches for food systems transformation.
CoFSA approaches food systems transformation through collaboration with all stakeholders across food systems.
OUR WORK
CONVENING AND PIONEERING
CoFSA supports people from across food and agriculture systems to cultivate the inner capacities that activate systemic change and regeneration by:
Convening a Community of Practice and Learning
CoFSA brings together an intentional community of peers supported by a collaborative digital platform where individuals and organizations can connect, learn and exchange knowledge, support and inspire each other, and collaborate to build conscious food systems.
Pioneering the application of consciousness approaches and practices
CoFSA members apply consciousness approaches and practices across food systems, through a global portfolio of interventions supported by an incubator, including the delivery of trainings, coaching and facilitation services, supported by research and learning frameworks.
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