Davos 2026: Demand, Risk and the Future of Food Systems

This year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos underscored a central message: building resilient food systems requires stronger alignment between climate action, market leadership and cross-sector collaboration.

First Movers Coalition for Food Reaches 60 Partners

The First Movers Coalition for Food is now 60 partners strong, highlighting how demand-led leadership can unlock meaningful transformation across global food systems.

During the week, coalition leaders launched “CEO Lessons for the Future of Procurement,” calling on businesses to reimagine procurement as a strategic lever for resilience, sustainability, competitiveness and long-term value, particularly at a time when food supply chains face mounting pressure from climate impacts, geopolitics and population growth.

The insight is clear: proven solutions already exist, from regenerative agriculture to water-smart and lower-methane production systems. Yet many stall at pilot stage. What remains critical is bold, credible demand signals that can accelerate scale.

For Southeast Asia, this reinforces the importance of aligning market incentives with practical implementation, ensuring innovation translates into tangible outcomes for farmers and food value chains.

Read more here: https://www.weforum.org/publications/first-movers-coalition-for-food-ceo-lessons-for-the-future-of-food-procurement/

Global Risks Report 2026: A Period of Rising Uncertainty

The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2026 highlights a period of rising uncertainty and division.

In the near term, global experts rank geoeconomic confrontation, misinformation, societal polarization, and extreme weather events as the most severe risks - factors that directly affect food systems, supply chains, and farmer livelihoods.

Over the long term, climate- and nature-related risks are predicted to dominate, with extreme weather, biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and natural resource shortages identified as the most severe global threats.

For food systems, this reinforces the urgency of building resilience across production, sourcing, and markets while uniting diverse actors to blend their expertise and finance. At Grow Asia, these insights underscore why collaborative, locally grounded and climate-resilient approaches are essential to sustaining food security and inclusive value chains in an increasingly uncertain global context.

Read more here: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2026/