The Food & Agricultural Commodity Systems Community serves first and foremost the learning needs of its members. Every year, the focus topics and themes of the annual programme are selected through one-to-one calls, capacity needs assessments and an all-members consultation process.

Current online learning events include:

• Awareness Raising & Discovery: Webinar (or series of webinars) presenting well documented and tested approaches, frameworks, solutions and tools that can be applied at different stages of a food systems project life cycle.
   
• South-South Knowledge Exchanges & Lessons Learnt: Workshops designed around documented food systems case studies or a lessons-learnt report privileging south-south and cross-commodities knowledge sharing.
   
• Learning, Training & Capacity Development: An expert-led programme consisting of several training/courses to teach practitioners a specific skill to contribute to their food systems project or conduct their job. The programme includes learning materials and references and can combine webinars, workshops and sessions to achieve pre-set learning outcomes which are agreed between participants and trainers.
   
• Micropractises: Short, very focused, and practice-based small group sessions to help practitioners apply tools and solutions (often previously presented in a learning event) to food system projects.
   
• Problem Solving Local Dialogue: Several mini-workshops designed around the need to boost systems leadership and collaborative stakeholder engagement to solve an important “local” issue/s.
   
• Collaborative Inquiry: Series of action research events, taking place over several months and up to one year, providing an agile structure for a group of stakeholders to make sense and collaboratively generate knowledge while investigating problems of practice directly relevant to food systems. The inquiry concludes with disseminating findings to a wider audience to help trigger change.
   
• Coaching: One-on-one sessions helping practitioners build and use more effectively their skills & capabilities applied to food and agricultural commodity systems.
   

• Others based on the specific learning needs of our members.

   

Good Growth Conference 

The Good Growth Conference, celebrated every 18 months in a strategically selected location, is an immersive learning experience that aims to inspire new understanding and foster meaningful global connections at the frontiers of agriculture and deforestation. This one-of-a-kind gathering equips global change makers, local leaders and practitioners with the network and tools needed to transform food and agricultural commodity systems.   

The scope and nature of the next conference will heavily depend on new resources being mobilized and finding a host country. Stay tuned for more information!