Nepal Summit 2026: Cultivating Inner Capacities & Facilitating Networks for Just and Equitable Food Systems
Imagine this: it’s almost the end of a long year. You’ve spent months working to transform food systems, building partnerships, responding to challenges, and pushing for change. The work has been meaningful, but now you find yourself needing a moment to reconnect with yourself, your purpose, and a community of people committed to the same journey.
The Social Gastronomy Movement (SGM) Nepal Summit 2026 might just be the space you need.
Taking place this November, the Summit will bring together chefs, educators, farmers, researchers, community leaders, and changemakers for shared learning, collaboration, and meaningful exchange with local communities and food networks in Nepal.
More than a conference, the Summit is an immersive learning journey that invites participants to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with the values that guide food systems transformation.
The Summit is structured around two complementary journeys: the Consciousness Journey and the Sensing Journey. Together, they create a holistic space for learning, noticing, and beginning to act grounded in relationships and guided by a shared understanding of food as a common good rather than a commodity.
By the end of these journeys, participants will leave with a deeper understanding of themselves, stronger connections with fellow changemakers, and renewed inspiration to carry these insights into their work and communities, cultivating relationships that support care, collaboration, and meaningful food systems transformation.
A glimpse of the programme
Day 1: Connecting Day, where participants meet one another and align around the goals and outcomes of the Summit.
Day 2: A day packed with farm visits, on-the-go learning sessions, foraging and exploration of perennials, followed by dinner.
Day 3: An immersive Sarvaguna learning journey.
Day 4: Glocal Food Fair and Banquet, with space to celebrate friendship, creativity, collaboration, and shared learning.
Day 5: On-the-go SGM team sessions, followed by an evening exploring Nepal's political and cultural uniqueness through dinner with friends.
Day 6: The day begins with an inner journey session, followed by an exploration of Nepal's food culture, political change, and wider social context, ending with the development of actions for both global and local networks.
Day 7: Reflection and partnership day.
Whether you are already part of the Social Gastronomy Movement community or are discovering our work for the first time, we warmly invite you to join us on this unique learning journey.
For more information or to express your interest in participating, contact us at community@socialgastronomy.org.