2. Diverse knowledge sources for efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems
3. Providing actionable and timely evidence for policymaking is challenging
5. Agrifood systems: key drivers, outcomes and triggers for transformation
6. A worker carries fillets of pirarucu fish (Arapaima gigas) to be sold in Tefe city market, Brazil
7. Roles of different knowledge activities within national science advisory ecosystems
9. Potential trade-offs among principles
10. Stakeholders, scale, scope and governance of a national-level SPI
12. SPI connectivity across local, national and supranational scales
14. Checklist of activities to ensure that knowledge is actionable and relevant for policy
18. Methods employed to assess the impacts of boundary-spanning activities
1. Examples of agrifood systems-related global science–policy interface (SPI) organizations
1. The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN)
2. Science–policy interfaces related to food and nutrition in Brazil
3. The Food Systems Countdown Initiative
4. Status of SPIs in the environment and agrifood sectors in the Republic of Moldova
5. Developing a strong SPI for the global instrument on plastic pollution
6. Principles for evidence-informed policymaking
7. The Scientific Advice Mechanism to the European Commission
8. Developing country-level knowledge translation platforms (KTPs)
9. National Information Platforms for Nutrition: a multisectoral data and policy initiative
10. The national food system transformation pathway of Mexico
11. Adaptation and implementation of policies at the local level in Morocco
12. Collaborative approaches to ensuring evidence is useful and used
13. Possible nomination criteria for expert selection in an SPI
14. Data and knowledge management
15. Risk assessment policy requirements
16. A shared vision for effective governance of forest management in Noh Bec, Mexico
17. Improving community agency to engage with SPIs
18. AI to support inclusion of knowledge coming from public sector and citizen science approaches
19. Coordinating the role of evidence producer organizations
20. The FSNet-Africa early career researcher development model
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