A new global partnership — Tourism Food for Good — has been launched by UN Tourism, the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development (CRSD), and the TUI Care Foundation.
According to untourism.int, the initiative aims to transform how food is produced, sourced, and consumed across the tourism sector, promoting sustainability, local empowerment, and responsible consumption worldwide.
Together with key public and private stakeholders, it is co-creating an impact roadmap for sustainable food systems that strengthen local economies, cut food waste, contribute to food security through surplus redistribution, reduce carbon footprints, and support resilient development.
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Addressing both development imperatives and the urgent need for food security, the project tackles policy gaps and drives innovation by co-creating new business models. Systems mapping will guide the transformation towards sustainable food systems, starting with a pilot in Cabo Verde and scaling to other destinations with committed industry players. In doing so, Food for Good also unlocks opportunities for tourism to contribute to the bioeconomy and foster diversified growth, especially in SIDS.
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The initiative builds on UN Tourism’s Global Roadmap for Food Waste Reduction in Tourism, which was developed in collaboration with UNEP, is powered by CRSD Cambridge’s Impact Roadmapping and Policy Boot Camp methodologies, and supported by the philanthropic and practical engagement of the TUI Care Foundation.
The initiative is carried out in support of One Planet Sustainable Tourism Programme.
