FABLE Serious Game: Exploring Pathways for Sustainable Food and Land Use is a collaborative strategy game where players step into the roles of government ministers to shape the future of their country’s food and land-use systems. Inspired by real-world challenges and data, the game explores the complex trade-offs and synergies involved in designing sustainable policies.

It is the year 2025, and your country stands at a crossroads. Population is growing, natural ecosystems are under pressure, diets are evolving, and the planet is warming. As decision-makers, your task is to guide your country toward a resilient, equitable, and sustainable 2050.

Each player takes on the role of a minister within a national cabinet. While each minister advocates for their sector’s priorities, you must collaborate to design integrated policy packages. Your decisions will shape outcomes across land use, food security, biodiversity, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and public health.

Over multiple rounds, your team will implement policies, striving to meet national sustainability targets while managing trade-offs. Promoting a crop may reduce hunger, but it may emit higher GHG emissions. Reforesting land may boost biodiversity but limit agricultural production. Every action has consequences.

You will play using a simplified version of the FABLE Calculator, which simulates the impact of your choices and shows whether your policies bring the country closer to its long-term goals.

Will your team lead the country to sustainability, or fall short under pressure? The future is in your hands.

This game has been developed by the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land Use and Energy (FABLE) Consortium. For questions, please reach out to: info.fable@unsdsn.org

Speaker : Davide Cozza, Junior Analyst, FABLE

Registration is mandatory and subject to availability.