Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy Consortium

What Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy Consortium does

The FABLE (Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy) Consortium is a global research network launched in December 2017 by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), with EAT Foundation and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) as core coordinating partners. It brings together 29 country teams representing 102 national institutes and more than 200 researchers to develop national-scale pathways for sustainable food and land-use systems aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement and the SDGs, addressing the gap between top-down global models that ignore national policy diversity and purely national assessments that cannot articulate contributions to global goals.

The consortium's product surface is an open-access modeling suite: the FABLE Calculator (decision-support tool for computing national pathway trade-offs across agriculture, biodiversity, climate, and diets), the Scenathon platform (participatory scenario-marathon integrating models, stakeholders, and technology for multi-objective problem solving), the Linker Tool (proportionally reconciles country exports to global imports to ensure trade consistency), the Maps / Zonal Statistics Extractor (spatially-explicit analysis), and FABLE Targets (quantifiable global benchmarks for diets, GHG, biodiversity, deforestation, freshwater, and nutrients). Underlying modeling is built on IIASA's GLOBIOM and PIK's MAgPIE partial-equilibrium models.

FABLE is not a commercial enterprise. Membership is free and open to qualified research institutions; the consortium is funded through institutional grants and partner contributions (e.g., Norway's NICFI support for FOLU Ethiopia) and operates inside the broader Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU). Primary users are national research organizations and government policymakers, with auxiliary engagement from FAO, the European Economic and Social Committee, the NDC Partnership, WBCSD, and WRI. Distribution relies on scientific publications, policy briefs, annual consortium meetings, Scenathon events, the public Scenathon Dashboard, and UN/international forums.

Name

Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy Consortium

Legal name

Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy Consortium

Website

https://fableconsortium.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The FABLE Consortium is a non-commercial global research network of 29 country teams and 102 national institutes that develops national-scale food and land-use pathways aligned with the SDGs and Paris Agreement using open-access modeling tools (FABLE Calculator, Scenathon, Linker Tool, FABLE Targets), coordinated by IIASA, SDSN, EAT, and PIK.

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Environmental Modeling Software

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Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Business Associations (813910), Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Other Similar Organizations (except Business, Professional, Labor, and Political Organizations) (813990)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Environment, Climate & Sustainable Development IGOs (BPADAAAI)

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Nutrition & Food Security (Global Health) NGOs (HLAJAKAH), Environmental, Climate & Sustainability Standards & Reporting Cooperation (BPADANAI), Climate Risk & Scenario Analysis (TCFD/IFRS S2) (EUAHAJAD), Global Supply Chain, Procurement & Market-Shaping Partnerships (Medicines/Diagnostics/Vaccines) (HLAJAOAK)

Keywords

• Sustainable land use modeling
• Food systems research
• National pathway analysis
• Climate-agriculture modeling
• Open-access decision support

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Research Consortium Operations: FABLE Consortium operates as a free membership organization for research teams. The consortium is supported by partner organizations including SDSN, IIASA, EAT, and PIK. Membership is free and open to teams with requisite technical skills and engagement capacity.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The FABLE Consortium operates a global network of national research organizations that develop national-scale food and land-use pathways aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. It provides an open-access modeling infrastructure (FABLE Calculator, Scenathon Platform, Linker Tool, Maps, and FABLE Targets) that integrates global models (GLOBIOM, MAgPIE) with country-level policy modeling, enabling national research teams to produce globally consistent, science-based strategies for sustainable food and land-use systems.

Product overview

The FABLE Consortium is a global network of national research organizations offering an integrated suite of open-access modeling tools for developing national-scale food and land-use strategies aligned with global sustainability goals. The core offerings include the FABLE Calculator (a decision support tool for modeling national pathways), the FABLE Scenathon (a participatory scenario-marathon exercise), the Scenathon Dashboard (for visualizing results across targets), the Maps/Zonal Statistics Extractor (for spatial analysis), FABLE Targets (for quantifiable sustainability benchmarks), and the Linker Tool (for balancing international trade). All tools operate on principles of open-access science, with data, models, and analytical tools openly and transparently available. The consortium also produces reports, policy briefs, and scientific publications, and facilitates stakeholder engagement workshops.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FABLE Calculator: Open-access decision support tool to calculate trade-offs of different strategies to achieve sustainability of food and land use systems
• FABLE Scenathon
• FABLE Targets
• FABLE Maps

Products and services

• FABLE Calculator An open-access decision support tool used by country teams to calculate national pathways for sustainable food and land-use systems, modeling trade-offs across agriculture, biodiversity, climate, and diets. Country teams use it to set assumptions on the evolution of imports and exports for each commodity.
• FABLE Scenathon A participatory decision-making exercise integrating models, stakeholders, and technology to collectively solve complex large-scale multi-objective problems related to sustainable transformation of food and land-use systems at national and global scales.
• Scenathon Dashboard An online visualization platform showing results covering all FABLE targets and the contribution of each country pathway to each global target, highlighting national and global results and gaps between achievement and global targets.
• Maps (Zonal Statistics Extractor) A tool for spatially-explicit analysis of food and land-use systems, supporting zonal statistics extraction for geographic data analysis.
• FABLE Targets A framework for establishing quantifiable global benchmarks for sustainability targets drawing from the best evidence available, covering diets, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, deforestation, freshwater flows, and nutrient release.
• Linker Tool A tool used by the FABLE Secretariat to balance trade by proportionally adjusting export quantities from each exporter to match global imports for each product and time step, ensuring consistency across national pathways and offering a visualization and discussion platform for trade imbalances.

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Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

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Feature5 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• SOLVE Project (Belmont Forum)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2025FABLE-led Belmont Forum project coordinated by SDSN involving partners across nine countries. Co-creates adaptation strategies with local actors using participatory modeling over three years.
• FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025FAO organized training on the FABLE Calculator for 33 staff members from 9 divisions. FABLE contributes to FAO's Global Roadmap for achieving SDG 2.
• CHOICE ConsortiummajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 February 2024FABLE leads in evaluating climate pathways and their impacts on biodiversity, health, and SDGs within this Horizon Europe project uniting 16 partners from 5 European countries, Colombia, and South Africa.
• CGIAR/NEXUS GainsmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 July 2023Featured at NEXUS Gains Talks on country-driven nexus food and land use system pathways. Used hydrological models and FABLE Calculator for Ganges Basin analysis.
• WBCSD (World Business Council on Sustainable Development)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 September 2020Collaboration to develop protein transformation pathways showing how the protein sector could drive agricultural sector to reach net-zero by 2050 and play a positive role in biodiversity restoration.
• IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 December 2017One of three core coordinating organizations for FABLE Consortium. Provides technical support and modeling tools including GLOBIOM model. Hosted inaugural meeting in Vienna in December 2017.
• SDSN (Sustainable Development Solutions Network)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 December 2017One of three core coordinating organizations. Leads secretariat operations and outreach. Based at UN headquarters in New York.
• EAT FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 December 2017One of three core coordinating organizations. Contributes to science-policy interface and dietary recommendations research.
• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)coreTechnology or Integration · 6 December 2017Supports consortium with MAgPIE model and technical expertise in climate and land-use modeling.
• Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 December 2017FABLE operates as part of the broader Food and Land Use Coalition, which provides integrated analysis supporting deep transformations for sustainable land-use and food systems.
• World Resources Institute (WRI)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on stakeholder engagement and policy analysis, including work with FABLE Mexico and FOLU country platforms.
• NDC PartnershipmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on supporting Benin's LT-LEDS Strategy using the FABLE Calculator to model pathways to 2050.
• SystemiqminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the Food and Land Use Coalition providing expertise in sustainable food systems transformation.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): WBCSD is a partner on FABLE's protein transformation pathways and a broadly comparable global convener working with corporations and research organizations on sustainable food, land-use, and climate strategies.
• CGIAR: CGIAR is the largest global agricultural research partnership and a directly comparable network of research centers producing food-system science for development. It overlaps with FABLE on national food-system pathways and partners (NEXUS Gains).
• SYSTEMIQ: SYSTEMIQ is a FOLU partner and a broadly comparable systems-change organization producing economic and policy analysis for sustainable food, land, and climate transitions.

Direct peers

• Stockholm Resilience Centre: Stockholm Resilience Centre is a directly comparable research institute producing planetary boundaries, food-system, and resilience science that informs the same policy audiences FABLE targets.
• Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN): SDSN is a core FABLE coordinator and a directly comparable UN-affiliated network that produces the Sustainable Development Report and convenes global research networks on sustainability, making it a near-perfect structural twin.
• Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU): FOLU is FABLE's parent coalition and the most directly comparable multi-stakeholder initiative producing integrated analysis for sustainable food and land-use transformation globally.
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA): IIASA is both a core FABLE coordinator and a directly comparable systems-analysis research institute operating GLOBIOM. It is one of the most relevant peers because it houses the modeling backbone FABLE relies on and serves overlapping science-policy communities on land-use and climate.
• World Resources Institute (WRI): WRI is an active FABLE partner and a directly comparable global research organization producing datasets and policy analysis on food, forests, water, and climate (e.g., Global Forest Watch), making it a structural peer.
• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): PIK is a core FABLE partner and developer of MAgPIE, the land-use partial-equilibrium model FABLE integrates. It is a directly comparable research institute producing integrated food-system and climate modeling for policy.
• EAT Foundation: EAT is a core FABLE coordinator focused on transforming food systems through science (the EAT-Lancet planetary health diet). It is a directly comparable science-policy initiative operating in the same food-system transformation space.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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