Register Now! Nigeria Chefs’ Manifesto Action Hub
Join us in Lagos for an exciting workshop bringing together food systems champions to explore how we can build a healthier, more resilient food future for Nigeria.
From the challenges facing rapidly growing food systems to the opportunities already emerging across the country, this Chefs’ Manifesto Action Hub will offer peer to peer learning, examining how culinary leadership can connect culture, agriculture, nutrition, and local markets. Together, we’ll explore the potential of indigenous crops, stronger producer–chef connections, and innovations that can create more diverse and resilient food systems.
Come ready to share ideas, connect with others, and leave with practical commitments for Lagos’ food future.
Register Now! Ghana Chefs’ Manifesto Action Hub
Join us in Accra for a day of celebrating the people, ingredients and culinary traditions shaping Ghana’s food future.
Bringing together chefs, farmers, food entrepreneurs and policy makers, this Action Hub will explore the rich diversity of Ghana’s indigenous, local, seasonal and forgotten crops, and the opportunities we have to bring them back to the centre of everyday food culture.
Through conversations, research showcases, farm to plate stories and chef-led discussion, we’ll explore how stronger connections between producers and kitchens can build demand for local ingredients, support farmer livelihoods, and contribute to more diverse and nutritious diets.
We’ll share practical ideas and commitments for putting biodiversity back on the plate, strengthening Ghana’s Food System and connecting local action with a global community of chefs.
Register Now! Senegal Chefs’ Manifesto Action Hub
Join us in Dakar for a day bringing together chefs and food champions to explore how a new generation can bring Senegal’s ancient and underutilised crops into the future.
From fonio, millet, and sorghum to the knowledge and communities that have sustained them, this Action Hub will celebrate the ingredients at the heart of Senegalese food culture and explore how chefs can help create new demand for them. Bringing together voices from Dakar, the diaspora, and across Senegal’s food system, we’ll connect culinary heritage with opportunities for stronger markets, livelihoods, and biodiversity.
Together, we will turn food heritage into action for a more diverse, resilient food future in Senegal.
Action Hub du Chefs’ Manifesto au Sénégal | 9 Octobre 2026 | Dakar
Rejoignez-nous à Dakar pour une journée réunissant chefs et champions de l’alimentation afin d’explorer comment une nouvelle génération peut faire des cultures anciennes et sous-exploitées du Sénégal les cultures de demain.
Du fonio, du mil et du sorgho aux savoirs et aux communautés qui les ont fait vivre au fil des générations, cet Action Hub mettra à l’honneur les ingrédients au cœur de la culture alimentaire sénégalaise et explorera comment les chefs peuvent contribuer à créer une nouvelle demande pour ces produits. En réunissant des voix de Dakar, de la diaspora et de l’ensemble du système alimentaire sénégalais, nous ferons le lien entre patrimoine culinaire et opportunités pour renforcer les marchés, les moyens de subsistance et la biodiversité.
Ensemble, nous transformerons le patrimoine alimentaire en actions concrètes pour un avenir alimentaire plus diversifié et plus résilient au Sénégal.
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Culinary Village | Kigali Food Festival 2026
Food brings people together and it can also tell the story of how Africa’s food systems are changing.
As part of the Africa Food Systems Forum, the Culinary Village at the Kigali Food Festival will bring the continent’s food story to life through cooking, conversation, culture and collaboration. Across three days, chefs, farmers, food entrepreneurs, scientists, young leaders and food systems champions will come together to celebrate Africa’s rich culinary heritage while showcasing the innovations and solutions that can shape a healthier, more resilient and prosperous food future.
The Culinary Village will connect what is grown in Africa with what is cooked, eaten and celebrated.
Menus of Change Leadership Summit
The 2026 Menus of Change Leadership Summit features over 60 presenters, including nutrition and environmental scientists, consumer insight experts, chefs and culinary entrepreneurs, Culinary Institute of America faculty, business leaders and investment analysts, industry sector innovators, and other food systems change makers.
The topics addressed are critically relevant to chefs and operators working to secure the financial viability of their restaurants and foodservice operations while also advancing healthy, sustainable, delicious foods and menus.
In addition to high impact general sessions, attendees have an opportunity to participate in a variety of in-depth breakout sessions to see Menus of Change principles in action and to exchange questions and insights with general session speakers and fellow attendees. Download the full 2026 program schedule for an idea of what to expect at this year’s summit!
Register Now: https://www.menusofchange.org/registration
More Info: https://www.menusofchange.org/program
Spring Meetings: Water, Innovation and Finance in Focus
Good Life Show Africa 2026
Chefs’ Manifesto London Action Hub
Capacity Reached: Wait List Registrations Only.
Please register, and if a place becomes available, we will contact you as soon as possible. Thank you.
We’re back in 2026 for a day of peer-to-peer learning, dialogue, demonstration, and community-led action for a more resilient food future.
Join a powerful gathering of chefs, policymakers, innovators, and community leaders shaping the future of food. From global insights through the eyes of Máximo Torero (Chief Economist at the FAO) to UK perspectives from Anna Taylor(Executive Director of The Food Foundation), the day brings together leading voices working at the forefront of food systems change.
Through dynamic panels, live cooking demonstrations, and interactive discussions, contributors including Jozef Youssef, Isobel Bruce, Conor Spacey and Danny McCubbin will explore the big questions shaping what we eat: resilience in times of crisis, the forces influencing food choice, and how communities are driving solutions from the ground up.
Together we will spark collaboration, surface practical ideas, and commit to meaningful actions for a more resilient, equitable food system.
Register Now: Catalysing urgent action to address food and malnutrition crises
Start 2026 on an informed and action-oriented note by joining the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) and the SDG2 Advocacy Hub for a timely discussion on the state of food security and nutrition around the world.
In a context marked by increasing complexity, overstretched humanitarian and development actors, and mounting pressure on data and analytical systems, there is an urgent need for a shared, evidence-based understanding of the evolving state of acute food insecurity and malnutrition and the solutions that can break the cycle of crises
Building on the data and analysis produced by the GNAFC and its partners, this dialogue will support policymakers, advocacy experts, and other key stakeholders in identifying shared priorities and shaping evidence-based actions to prevent and address food crises.
With planned speakers from across UN agencies, civil society, international institutions and Hunger hotspot and donor governments, we hope this event will help mobilise the international community to take urgent action to avert further deterioration in 2026 and beyond, by pairing emergency response with long-term resilience-building efforts that break the cycle of crises and prevent famine.
Event details
🗓️ 2 February 2026
🕣 14:00 CEST
Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/e7piRB5uR8unPZwXNGR2NA
Community Kitchens Action Hub
Community Kitchens Action Hub | 28 October 2025 | OmVed Gardens, London
Strengthening Chefs, Strengthening Kitchens, Strengthening Communities
Community kitchens are integral right around the world, for bringing together community members, creating connections, and sharing over meals. The Community Kitchens Action Hub brings together the Chefs’ Manifesto community, OmVed Gardens, and The Good Kitchen for a full-day of collaboration and action. Participants will exchange ideas, share a collective meal, and hear directly from young chefs shaping the future of food. Together, we will spotlight the vital role of community kitchens and co-create strategies to sustain and strengthen these spaces for the years ahead.
Keen to be involved? Register your interest for the 28 October Community Kitchens Action Hub!
Connect with chefs, young leaders, community organisers, educators, and change-makers working towards resilient community kitchens and stronger food systems to share, learn, and be inspired to collaborate towards a stronger future for community kitchens.
Photo: Will Hearle
Driving Change with Policy, Narratives and #BeansOnTheMenu
Beans, alongside other pulses, peas and lentils, offer a simple, scalable and culturally resonant solution, advancing almost all the Sustainable Development Goals. Rich in protein, fibre and essential micronutrients, they are climate-resilient, affordable, and embedded in diets around the world. Yet despite their promise, beans remain undervalued in policy frameworks, underrepresented in public procurement, and not adopted enough as a key solution for nutritious diets.
This event by the Beans is How Campaign builds on new evidence and global momentum to explore how beans can be positioned more powerfully in both behaviour change strategies and structural policy frameworks. Featuring actors from across food policy, food service and the culinary world, it will demonstrate and inspire action to drive food systems and consumer behaviour change using beans, peas and lentils.
Speakers:
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Asma Lateef Chief of Policy and Advocacy at SDG2 Advocacy Hub
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Bill Telepan Executive Chef, Wellness in the Schools
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Gesina Beckert Director of Programs at Food for Climate League
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Grace Ramirez Chef, TV Personality, Author and Activist
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Paul Newnham CEO at SDG 2 Advocacy Hub
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Rachel Atcheson Executive Director at Food Policy Pathways
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Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg Africa Managing Director for the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT.
Regen Gathering 2025
A free two-day food and farming festival. If you care about the future of food, farming & health – this is for you!
Jersey, world renowned for its famous produce and rich agricultural heritage is showcasing the best of the island at a free 2 day festival exploring the future of food and farming.
Held in the picturesque Jersey countryside at Le Tacheron, a family farm inTrinity on 5–6 September, the event will bring together over 30 speakers from the UK and Jersey.
Representatives from the worlds of agriculture, hospitality, health, and food policy will be sharing ideas about how to produce good food whilst caring for the land and strengthening local communities.
The festival will include workshops, screenings, demonstrations and hedgerow safaris as well covering pressing topics including:
