The Continental Alliance for Food Security and Sustainable Development in the Americas focuses on promoting collective action by the countries of the region to promote and implement a new generation of policies and strengthen capacities that allow achieving more resilient agriculture and agri-food systems. inclusive, sustainable, profitable and competitive.

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Collective action implies that countries work together based on their interests and needs, to find joint solutions to common problems, generate supranational public goods, develop state technical-political capacities in strategic areas and consolidate regional agri-food positioning on a global scale.

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The ministries and secretariats of agriculture of the Americas, with the support of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and with the collaboration of other international agencies, have been building a process to agree on positions and define joint actions that strengthen the transition of the agri-food systems of the Americas, as a contribution to global and continental food security and as a solution to the global climate crisis. This political-institutional process has been evolving within the framework of the following mandates of the Member States.