Commitment to Co-Creation: How to Empower and Accelerate Grassroots Solutions for Global Nutrition and Food System Transformation

With food security and malnutrition continuing to be pressing and urgent global challenges, the need for more innovative solutions that fundamentally include local voices is critical. This thought piece illustrates the need for greater co-creation in the design of food and nutrition initiatives and describes an innovative methodology for doing so: Idea Accelerators. After participating in a global Idea Accelerator themselves, the authors of this piece reflect on this opportunity and describe why such models must be expanded. By offering a unique methodology for empowering and elevating local voices, Idea Accelerators can play an important role in efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals before 2030.