FSYS Game

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.

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

open Expansion

(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

fsysgame.org is on a Mission Quest: Co-creating playful Open Edu Resources for Whole School Food System Transformation and Planetary Health.

Latest

July 21st, 02026

Agriculture just got exciting! How would you love to voice your ideas, challenges, and dreams for the future of food in a fun and impactful way? Join us at the Youth Agroecology Corner and Action Lab — a vibrant side event of the 3rd National Agroecology Symposium.

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

Scan the QR code on the poster to register. Let’s make agroecology youthful, innovative, and action-packed!

June 16th, 02026

A Comic in a library of high level science publications? Our collaborative “Food Heroes Comic: Growing great food, seeds, trees & knowledge. No. 1. CGIAR Science Program on Multifunctional Landscapes” has been published as an Open Access Resource by CGIAR.org last month. The first Print edition is going around schools and we heard, that quite some Scientists were trying to get their hands on copies in the CGIAR centres as well 😉

Publication and Download

June 11th, 02026

The fresh fsys Germany website comes in our fresh DESIGN.md base where we redefined the visual style of fsysgame.org to feel more like being “in the Game”. We test this during our rollout in Germany, iterate and use for our international site.

fsys Deutschland NEW website

May 19th, 02026

We have been invited to join the Action week for Volunteering in Berlin at the HQ of our Germany based Fiscal Host WE Aid. A wonderful event with fellow initiatives. For visual impressions and more, check out our public post.

full post on Linkedin

May 14th, 02026 – written by CGIAR

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May, 12th 02026

The Gameplay from our DIY! Print Edition as an Online “Player vs. AI” version. You play an international organisation. You have 3 years and 3 projects to solve a Global Challenge.

Let me help and play!

May 11th 02026

Click on single Agroecology, Multifunctional Landscapes and Sustainable Development Goal Icons to explore, which cards feature the icon and how the cards are connected through other shared icons. A click on the card tells you, what is is about. Enjoy 🙂

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May 1 02026

The DIY! Do-It-Yourself Kit for Home-, School- and Club Printing, Fun and Education.

fsys DIY Kit Page and free download

April 02026

Embark on an epic food system adventure and learn to practice your Agroecology-, Multi-Functional Landscaping and Sustain Abilities! Edutaining Comics + 60 Collectible Cards and action missions to play in the Realworld + Board Game + Facilitator Guide

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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.

February 02026

Agroecology meets Future Now Agency.
22 pages + freely available for print and screen including a starter deck CGIAR MFL fsysgame cards + character and action mission sheets for fun and education.

Presented by: Alliance Bioversity-CIAT / Multifunctional Landscapes Science Program Games. For more information about the program click here

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November 02025

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

November 02025

Introducing the fsys game and narrative approach during the TJD Conference for Africa – Authentic Sustainability: African Actions Shaping Sustainable Futures – invited by the UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability.

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