From August 2nd to 3rd, 2025, the " Three foci for food to leverage SDGs and beyond " workshop was held at the School of Environmental Ecology and Resources of Guangzhou University of Technology. More than 60 scholars from over 20 institutions worldwide participated in the forum. Dr Sun Mingxing and Dr Xu Xiangbo, UNEP-IEMP senior researchers, attended the workshop and participated in discussions and speeches. 

The workshop was divided into 5 sections, discussing issues such as the environmental and health impacts, trends in data modeling, and resilience of the agrifood system. During the workshop, experts expressed their viewpoints on multiple aspects of agrifood system, extensively discussing research progress and gaps in the areas of environment, health, and resilience, and pooling different perspectives to effectively promote the research process in the field of food system modeling. Dr Sun Mingxing and Dr Xu Xiangbo made a summary speech on the resilience dimension of the food system, stressing that improving the resilience of the food system requires firstly building an assessment framework for the food system, and secondly, conducting systematic and dynamic evaluations of the food system's nutrition, health, and environment dimensions. They also emphasized the relationship between food system transformation and residents' livelihoods and inequality. Finally, they stressed the impact of policy and market measures on the resilience of the food system. 

The participants also raised many issues that were rarely addressed or ignored in previous studies, such as the impact of personal or family dietary habits outside of main meals on health, the potential impact of increasingly sweet fruits, and the applicability of current measures to future problems. The discussion results provided new research inspiration and cooperation opportunities for the participants.