Coordinator:
Carmelo Troccoli – General Manager, Fondazione Campagna Amica

Introduction:

Cardinal Fabio Baggio – Cardinal Undersecretary DSSUI, Director of the Laudato Si’ Center

Keynote speakers:
Monsignor Arellano Cica – Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the FAO
Sara Roversi – CEO, Future Food Institute
Alex Giordano – Scientific Director, Rural Hack
Vincenzo Gesmundo – Secretary General, Coldiretti
Richard McCarthy – President of the World Farmers Markets Coalition
Ana Maria Huaita Alfaro – Peruvian local food activist
Lucy Nthenya Kivindyo – Kenyan farmer
JB Cordaro – Coordinator of the Consortium for African Orphan Crops with UN agencies and African governments
Sara Scherr – Founder of EcoAgriculture
Stefano Pisani – Mayor of Pollica
Maria Venditti – Sociologist, politician, and disability activist
Alberta Akossa – Agrihouse Foundation
Ryan Edwards – CEO, Naked Innovation
Tainà Marajoara – Activist, farmer, and food culture leader, Amazon Investor Coalition
Nosipho Nausca-Jean Jazile – South African Ambassador to Italy and Permanent Representative to the UN Agencies in Rome; Chair of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Stefano Gatti – Director General for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Qu Dongyu – Director General of the FAO

The round table dedicated to agriculture and the food system sought to rethink the food system in an era marked by ecological and digital transitions. In a context where environmental, social, and cultural crises are intertwined, food must once again become a language of relationships, an act of care, and a place of shared memory. Starting from the principles of Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti, participants explored how to integrate and harmonize different forms of intelligence—natural, artificial, spiritual, and communal—within a vision that protects our common home and promotes fraternity. Among the lines of discussion, one essential goal emerged: to guarantee at least one meal a day for every person. The overall objective was to outline a new ethos for the agri-food system, based on the value of connection and limitation, capable of orienting supply chains, policies, and innovations towards a culture of food as a relational good, a daily gift, and a universal right.