The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to world food security and nutrition.
It provides independent, comprehensive and evidence-based analysis, and elaborates its studies through a scientific, transparent and inclusive process.
Background note for the Committee on World Food Security’s High-Level Forum held on 12 May 2025, in Rome, Italy
Video HLPE-FSN
Watch the video to find out who we are and how the HLPE-FSN experts work to achieve food security and improve nutrition for all.
The outlook for food security and nutrition (FSN) is worsening globally, with over 2.3 billion people moderately or severely food insecure in 2023,...
Presentation of the HLPE-FSN the background note "Tackling Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Land Degradation through the Right to Food"
These interlinked crises threaten all six dimensions of food security
How can the world finance food security and nutrition?
By Jody Harris
Deadline extended: 11 March 2025
Meet the Steering Committee
15 world-renowned experts, appointed by the Bureau of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to serve as members of the Steering Committee of the HLPE-FSN, from the closure of CFS 51 Plenary session
until the closure of the CFS Plenary session of October 2025.
