To build sustainable food systems, a transition must occur from current norms and practices to future ones that are more sustainable. Innovators in developing countries have long been linking diverse agricultural production to sustainable consumption, but few of these initiatives are documented or analyzed. How do farmers, communities, distributors, public authorities, researchers, and consumers build such systems and based on what values of sustainability? What types of innovations stimulate and govern these transitions? Answers to these questions can help us understand how interdependent system components realign around more sustainable practices; and how societal actors make changes in their technologies, networks, value chains, rules and daily routines – on the farm, on the road and at the table – to create sustainable, diverse food systems.