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Fsys is a real-world action game in the Collectible Card Game (CCG) genre. It serves as an open-source educational platform for Food System Transformation, Agroecology, whole-school approaches to food and practising the Sustainable Development Goals.

Every card is an action. Save seeds 🌾. Build compost ♻️. Restore biodiversity 🐝. Shorten food chains 🚜. Advocate for your land 📣. Players don’t just learn the concepts they practice them in the real world.

Our first Expansion Kit has been co-created with and published under the CGIAR Science Program on Multifunctional Landscapes, led by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and features Agroecology principles, Multifunctional Landscape themes and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Cooperative Development as an OER

fsys has been cooperatively developed since June 2025 as a ‘Collective Card Game’ and Open Educational Resource (OER). This narrative gamification ecosystem is cultivated within a living lab—a shared commons driven by a value-aligned, multi-stakeholder network of contributors, including youth participants from co-design playshops across the African and European continents.

Kenya Series: MFSN School Expansion 1
The current MFSN Game Comic & fsys Card Game series + open educational resource program features 13 Agroecology principles, 12 Multifunctional Landscape themes and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It has been developed with the Multifunctional Schools Network in Kenya, established with CSHEP and DNRC in Kiambu, Kajiado, and Makueni Counties, under the CGIAR Science Program on Multifunctional Landscapes, led by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, in collaboration with The Grass Company and fsysgame.org
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(c)Alliance Bioversity-CIAT / Multifunctional Landscapes Science Program Games

photographies taken during our pilot playshops in youth clubs and schools in Kenya and Germany

Our path towards 02030.. > 02050

Our next Expansion development is dedicated to the delicious part and culinary art of food systems: Cooking, Nutrition and Planetary Health. If your Organisation resonates and you might want to join the collaboration and/or fund, drop us a mail hello@fsysgame.org

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August 5th, 02026

Call for Partnerships. For the fresh development start of our food‑system cooking‑transformer game expansion we are scouting for potential partners. Cooking techniques, nutrition, and planetary health are the next three value sets we are passionate about translating into an engaging, open, collective card game for fun, real‑world action and education. 

Agroecology principles, multi-fun-ctional landscape themes, and the Sustainable Development Goals build the three value sets we have explored in our collaboration with the Alliance Biodiversity International & CIAT, and our recently Open‑Access published *Food Heroes* Expansion Set. 

Now we want to focus on the delicious part and the culinary art of food‑system transformation and expand our 60‑card collection with another analogue 60‑plus‑card set, including comics, digital add‑ons, and facilitator guides centered around cooking, nutrition, and planetary health for schools, homes, and clubs.

For this fresh development quest we are currently scouting the potential “mycelium network” of science, game‑design, education, and funding partners.  If you resonate or might know/tag fitting connections, we are happy to get to know you and explore our possibility space.

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July 21st, 02026

Are you planning to participate in the 🪴 🌴 🦋 🐝 3rd National Agroecology Symposium 🌾 🍉 🫚 🎈 tomorrow, Wednesday 22, and Thursday 23 July?

Together with WingFarm and ISFAAKenya, we from the CGIAR Multifunctional Landscapes at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT have organised a #Youth in #Agroecology #Action lab. In the session, we will introduce our #FoodHeroes comic and game that we co-developed with fsysgame.org and The Grass Company Limited in collaboration with DRYLANDS NATURAL RESOURCES CENTRE (DNRC) and Community Sustainable Agriculture and Healthy Environmental Program (CSHEP).

✅ Play interactive games & learn
✅ Engage in powerful dialogues
✅ Co-create real agroecological solutions
✅ Build networks, make commitments & take action! 

Find out more about our Food Heroes educational package here:

open access package
May 14th, 02026 – written by CGIAR
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February – March 02026

We reached 250 students aged 8–16 across 9 primary schools in Kajiado, Kiambu, and Makueni with our 2-Day Playshop Pilots.

November 02025

André introduces the Genre of Trade Card Games / Collectible Card Games (TCG/CCG) and the fsys game.