Changing the food and agriculture sector in the Netherlands is inevitable. Currently, climate change, the nitrogen crisis, and biodiversity loss are daily topics in the Dutch news. It is time to transition to a fair and sustainable food system. But how can we produce enough healthy food for current and future generations? How do we relate to nature and animals in a future food system? What will the future role of the farmer look like? Together with a wide variety of stakeholders we have been working on this transition for over a decade. Below we describe a few of the projects we worked on.