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Participants emphasized cooperation throughout the Dialogue. There is an inherent interdependency in the food system, and each player impacts others’ capacities to act. There is a need for more coalitions and collaborations not only between food businesses but across the entire food and agriculture system. Together, these individual players can have a much larger positive impact. This interconnected nature should also be reflected within each food business model. Participants identified the need to move from a single stakeholder to multi-stakeholder approach to business, in which leaders val... قراءة المزيدue the planet, community, workers, and natural resources in the decision-making process. Leaders can further push the dial by building people-centered businesses that focus on advocacy. Participants also spoke about the need to invest in women-led, Asian-led, and BIPOC-led businesses and organizations that are working towards sustainable solutions. Those that are closest to the issues facing our food systems must receive support to build culturally and locally appropriate solutions. Participants recognized that many food systems, particularly commodity-based, are legacy systems built around colonialism and deep-rooted unfairness, and that it’s important to bring historically invisible and forgotten members of the value chain into decision-making. Participants agreed that policy needs to catch up to forward-thinking companies’ ambitions and the scientific consensus as to the impact of the current global food system on planetary and human health. The government has a big role to play in making necessary changes. Because policies support industrialized agriculture, affordability remains a main concern in scaling sustainable production practices, as well. Participants spoke about how better policies can support sustainable and regenerative systems by incentivizing farmers to experiment with different ways of farming. By supporting and scaling regenerative supply chains, farmers can make a living wage while companies gain better access to healthy ingredients and these products are accessible to all consumers. Policy may also reimagine how consumers interact with food labels and expand what those labels look like to include factors like carbon footprint and animal welfare. Finally, the Dialogue centered on the theme that there is no one-size-fits-all for the food system. Rather than searching for a silver bullet, it’s imperative that all players focus on supporting family farmers, sustainable agricultural practices, education, and other investments to help incentivize making a radical change towards a healthier future. Moving forward, sustainable food businesses must maintain this open conversation and continue to challenge each other. قراءة القليل

Discussion topic: Challenges Participants agreed that infrastructure is a major challenge across sustainable food businesses. While businesses have the initiative to make change, supply often isn’t sufficient. For example, there is a disconnect between material innovation and the supply chains to support sustainable packaging. The waste industry doesn’t have consistent or centralized infrastructure to keep up with private innovation aimed at reducing waste. Meanwhile, incapabilities across recycling systems produce confusion at the consumer level, threatening their faith in available steps... قراءة المزيد towards positive impact like packaging recycling. Participants noted that focusing on scaling-up the circular economy plays an important role in helping the system catch up to the private sector’s ambitions. Regenerative farming needs support so businesses can access healthier and more sustainable ingredients at scale. Making sure everyone has access to these foods can also ensure that there is an equitable and fair playing field for all companies developing these products. Participants also agreed that policy has not provided enough support for those working to build sustainable and regenerative systems. Big dairy, meat, and seafood are pushing back against policies to support plant-based business, while current subsidies incentivize farmers to grow commodity crops using unsustainable methods. Without government and policy support, the onus falls on responsible food businesses to support these more sustainable food systems—and often, that higher cost of business reaches the consumer, making more sustainable food options less accessible to all. The Dialogue also identified the challenge of communicating the interdependence of all food system players in a way that is easy to understand. At the consumer level, sustainable food businesses need to make it convenient and easy for eaters to think about eating not only for human health but planetary health. New labels, for example, can frame carbon footprints similar to calories on food packaging. Companies must find simple ways to show that their products are part of many solutions to a large, interconnected problem. قراءة القليل

Discussion topic: Opportunities Participants highlighted that sustainable food businesses have an opportunity to challenge the status quo. Multi-stakeholder business models that value the planet, community, workers, eaters, and natural resources can help move the focus from a singular devotion to profit. Large companies have the scale, resources, and ability to influence change that smaller businesses don’t have. But as these smaller businesses demonstrate financial and cultural success and find ways to engage with larger multi-national food companies, they can influence how large companies ... قراءة المزيدoperate, helping to create greater impact. Participants also identified an opportunity for small and medium size enterprises to leverage shorter, more agile supply chains. A key component of sustainable food business is paying farmers a better-than-fair wage while also providing accessibility to consumers. Small and medium-sized businesses are at a disadvantage in terms of economies of scale, but they can reduce intermediaries in the supply chain to maximize return to farmers, allowing farmers to invest in sustainable initiatives such as reforestation efforts or pollinators habitats. In this way, small businesses can chart the path forward for larger, more established companies and supply chains. While it was also noted as a challenge, the theme of interdependence was seen by participants as an opportunity. Participants continually pointed to the power of collaboration and coalition. This means not seeing other businesses as competitors, but rather partners in solving the complex issues of the global food system. Each sustainable food business’s own success is positively correlated to the success of its competitors. Democratizing access to the tools necessary for radical food systems change will benefit all. The Dialogue emphasized an all-hands-on-deck approach to tackling the changes that are urgently needed. Participants saw an enormous opportunity for government and policies to better support sustainable and regenerative practices. Many companies are investing in farmers, but a system-level shift is needed. Farmers can be given the freedom to be brave, take risks, and make mistakes in the transition towards a better system. Better policies can properly compensate farmers and farm workers while keeping the cost of sustainably and ethically grown food affordable to all. Participants also note the opportunity for food business to involve more producers in key decisions, integrating them into the entire product development process. Well-intentioned initiatives and community projects, often based on public dialogue or the competition’s projects, aren’t always the best solution for farmers. Throughout the discussion, participants shared their own solutions to the food system’s challenges while noting that there isn’t just one solution needed. Participants agreed that many of the necessary solutions do already exist, but investors are needed. There is an opportunity to bring more investors that value the planet as highly as profit into this space. قراءة القليل

Discussion topic: Ways Forward Moving forward, participants focused on the need to shift core values not only for food business but the consumers purchasing from them. With simultaneous and interconnected planetary crises, it’s not enough for companies to be less harmful; sustainability and equitability must be inherent in their core products or services -- not just side product lines -- and companies should find a way to include advocacy in their work. Participants also spoke about marrying conversations surrounding sustainability more broadly. Often, food-specific discussions and climate-s... قراءة المزيدpecific discussions focus on the same issues in separate forums. The food and agriculture system needs to be brought fully into the global conservation surrounding the climate crisis at forums like UNFCCC’s COP. The industry should acknowledge its role in the global environmental, human health, and social justice crises, and also recognize its potential as a powerful solution for those same crises. There remains a disconnect between the reporting on food and agriculture’s impact on the environment and the action taken at a policy level. For example, there is global scientific consensus on the environmental impact of industrialized, commoditized agriculture. The U.N. and other global bodies have reported widely on that consensus but neither international bodies nor country-specific administrations widely include it in policy, either in regulating harmful systems or in promotion of positive alternative ones. Moving forward, policies can help make the good choice the easy choice for consumers, as well as incentivize growers to produce more sustainably. Participants spoke about the need to push current administrations to pass policies that better support both human and environmental health. Participants also pointed to the importance of recognizing the extractive nature of many food supply chains. A more restorative system would invest in women and the BIPOC communities that are on the front lines of many of the issues that sustainable food businesses are striving to solve. Participants agreed that we must bring in the people and communities that are closest in proximity to these issues. Moving forward, different voices including historically forgotten and underrepresented communities need to be in conversation with food business. These conversations should focus on local and culturally appropriate solutions that serve all eaters. Finally, participants emphasized the need to move forward with solutions, even if they may not be perfect. Being more vocal about the barriers facing the solutions already at work can help push the dial. Often, we learn more from failures rather than successes. Pushing forward with what’s working right now, not what might work 50 years from now, should be the focus of the discussions. قراءة القليل

There was a slight divergence in discussing how the food system measures the environmental impact of producing food. Some points of divergence occurred around: ● Carbon sequestration and the greenwashing of regenerative agriculture ● Need for further scientific evidence of the impacts of animal welfare and regeneratively raised beef ● Carbon credit systems and carbon farming

As the world comprehends the significant role our current food system has played in the planetary crisis, food companies around the world are quickly taking steps—some big strides, some early motions—to take responsibility and reduce the impact of their supply chains. But unlike big food, some mission-driven companies were conceived with the very goal of designing a new food system that’s built for planetary and human health. This Dialogue convened those mission-driven players to share their challenges, opportunities, and visions for the future and collect their perspectives as input for... قراءة المزيد the U.N. Sustainable Food Summit. The Dialogue explored: ● Challenges. The major barriers facing new and established companies alike looking to embrace sustainability, whether that’s changing consumers’ attitudes towards food or adopting or developing new technology. ● Opportunities. How we make sustainable food more mainstream and what that will take on the part of farmers, companies, consumers, and governments. ● Ways Forward. How we can build a more resilient food system that is good for people and the planet and resilient to not just a pandemic, but other global shocks. قراءة القليل

With regard to sustainable packaging: this area should continue to be studied, to strengthen academic and applied knowledge. Education should be strengthened, as well as solutions for recycling and development of sustainable packaging. With regard to advertising: a call to take advantage of industry's power and experience in the world of advertising, to advertise and promote healthy food.

Our focus is on sustainable Israeli industry. A strong, independent local food industry is of high importance for: • Food security, in general and particularly in times of crisis. • Support for local agriculture. • Diverse, multi-gender employment and strengthening of the periphery. We have examined/researched the industry's challenges and interfaces with regarding to UN objectives on sustainability. The discussion focused on the following topics: 1. Develop innovative technologies; expand knowledge and academic and applied research on establishing local sustainable agriculture, reduce w... قراءة المزيدater consumption in agriculture as well as in the food industry. 2. Implementation of circular economy principles in agriculture and across the food industry's entire chain of production and supply. 3. Expansion of knowledge on food production and packaging, to have it focus on responsible production and consumption, use of clean energy, encourage innovation and advanced infrastructure for the local food industry. 4. Invest resources in fair employment and reduction of inequality; multi-gender employment. 5. Develop innovative technologies; expand knowledge and academic and applied research in food technology to enhance the food security of Israel's residents, encourage sustainable nutrition to promote public health and food safety. 6. Reinforce the connection between the relevant bodies to ensure reduction in waste of food, increase food security in Israel and reach the goal of zero hunger. 7. Deepen the connection and dialog between the relevant bodies with the aim of promoting the قراءة القليل

The food industry is an important partner in achieving the 17 UN objectives, and a significant player in food systems. The importance of inter-sectoral cooperation with different stakeholders in order to deepen dialog and mutual learning: academia, consumers, health services, municipalities, insurance companies, regulator. The importance of cooperation between the industry and academia for development of innovative products and technologies to assist in reducing carbon and water footprints. Need for national goals and a uniform database. Measurement and evaluation: build a database encompassin... قراءة المزيدg all lifecycle data of food production and examine the carbon and water footprints across the food industry's production and supply chain. Multi-sectoral collaboration: construct a regulatory plan with sectorial objectives for savings and reorganization in areas of water, agriculture, industry, retail chains, and consumers. Build a single database for managing agricultural crops, planting and growing, to enable balancing of supply and demand. Define multi-annual national objectives for reducing poverty (and food insecurity) in Israel until reaching the existing average of OECD countries. Establish a coordinating food-saving body designed to synergize government ministries and food industries, retail chains, NPOs, and consumers. Define an objective of ZERO FOOD WASTE for food manufacturers and retail chains by the year 2030 قراءة القليل

Responsible production and consumption, innovation and infrastructure 1. Strengthen ties between academia and industry: establish a food center in academia in cooperation with the industry, to advance students' education and applied economic development in the field, with the aim of promoting responsible production and consumption, and providing nutritional security and optimal health. 2. Strengthen ties between academia and industry: establish a food center in academia in cooperation with the industry, to advance students' education and applied economic development in the field, with the aim ... قراءة المزيدof promoting responsible production and consumption, and providing nutritional security and optimal health. 3. Support and grants for the Israeli food industry and technological companies for innovation in the food world and foodtech, as well as academia operating in this area. 4. Multi-sectorial collaboration: building a gender discourse on responsible production between industry, the Innovation Authority, and academia. 5. Advanced, rapid regulatory adjustment to the new food area and alternative protein قراءة القليل

Health and healthy lifestyle – how to get there 1. Broad professional cooperation and dialog between industry, academia, health services, retailers, government ministries, and the regulator for the advancement of public health. Industry is a partner to the solution. 2. Build a common, uniform communication plan for all parties noted in section 2.3.1 for promoting public health, expressed in plain and simple language for all sectors (adjustment of discourse to relevant sector). 3. Strengthening ties between academia and industry to build a plan to promote communication and explanation of the ... قراءة المزيدimportance of food processing and food processing technologies for a sustainable food environment. Harmonization with European standards with regard to pesticides and food supplements (exists) as well as attribution of healing properties to various food products. In the aim of promoting public health. 4. Build an education plan to promote healthy life style from kindergarten age until academia, in which all bodies noted in 2.3.1 shall participate, crossing boundaries and genders. Israel is a small country, and major impact can be made in it. 5. Subsidies and grants for companies developing foods with enhanced nutritional value. 6. Communication and advertising: encouragement of advertising foods with added nutritional value, encouraging adoption of a healthy life style. 7. Providing greater accessibility and lower prices for foods that promote a healthy life style قراءة القليل

1. Fragmentation of efforts to find evidence-based scientific solutions for nature-positive production. There was much discussion about innovative and evidence-based scientific solutions that some NGOs, multilateral organizations, academic and research institutions, governments, and companies a have discovered to improve food systems so they t provide sustenance to all and a healthier planet. • The dominant concern, however, was that these efforts are often fragmented—made in isolation from each other, in different parts of the world, without information-sharing or collaboration. Farmers, ... قراءة المزيدand particularly smallholder farmers in developing countries, on whom food systems ultimately rely, often have limited access to data and technology which are essential to advance nature-positive production. There was a strong sentiment that by fostering partnerships among diverse stakeholders, progress can be achieved in transforming food systems for a better world. • There were diverse ideas on how to make this happen, and how to make it important to smallholder farmers who might be more focused on solutions to day-to-day issues around providing basic needs for their families. Everyone agreed that knowledge needs to be shared, however some felt it was the responsibility of the government and extension services, while others felt large corporations should be sharing information. A third group suggested farmer organizations were key. A final group suggested these and other entities should partner to make sure knowledge gets to farmers. 2. Advancing equitable livelihoods, while boosting nature-positive production. There was also agreement that success in boosting nature-positive production will only be achieved by providing much needed resources, training, technology, support, and incentives for smallholder farmers, including women, and including farmers in remote rural communities in developing countries. • The perspectives varied somewhat in terms of emphasis, however. That is, some participants were more focused on the environment and conservation, while others put greater emphasis on providing sustainable livelihoods to farmers. Some of the concerns regarding the economics of sustainable farming included these: o Labor market governance and institutions need to be strengthened to advance more equitable livelihoods. o A challenge in advancing more equitable livelihoods is that rural and urban labor markets in food systems involve such a wide variety of employment relationships - in the small-scale agriculture sector, which is heavily comprised of women, as well as in large commercial farms, plantations, and cash-crop systems. o A barrier to equitable livelihoods among agricultural workers is the lack of access to social protections, such as health insurance. They also lack rights to collective bargaining and to health and safety. o To ensure more equitable livelihoods, it will be essential to address the lack of infrastructure, systemic marginalization, and limited skills and knowledge development opportunities. These constraints curb equitable access to resources and services and therefore to secure livelihoods. 3. The lack of coordination and alignment between governments and public policy worldwide. Participants shared doubts and concerns about the likelihood of success in terms of actions partnerships and without greater collaboration between national governments. The fragmentation of global public policy makes it difficult for diverse stakeholders to collaborate in advancing evidence-based scientific solutions and making measurable progress. 4. There was acknowledgement of the divergence of definitions around regenerative agriculture. The group discussion noted that it should be defined in a way that encourages access to tools and technology, including fertilizers and pesticides. Others were concerned about the inclusion of certain pesticides that they considered “toxic” and/or “controversial.” They asked if there were other approaches that could be used instead. However, there was consensus over the concern that farmers would not be included in making these decisions about what is included in regenerative agriculture. قراءة القليل

Discussion Topic, Group 1 By 2030, food loss and waste have decreased by 50% across key supply chains and demand for food production has diminished proportionally, leading to lower production emissions. ACTIONS 1. Recognize the long-standing inequalities that have been exposed by COVID, the Black Lives Matter movement and the present “policy window” to address these inequalities. Given this context, the dialogue process is a moment of opportunity that should not be squandered. 2. Recognize the urgency. There are only nine harvests remaining until 2030 to get this right. 3. Recognize lesson... قراءة المزيدs learned from food banks in 2020. It was the first year where 85% of the food they distributed was recovered from the industrial/agriculture sector (not purchased). There was a sense of solidarity among the communities they worked with, and there was no decrease in the amount of food distributed. 4. Map the actions that would lead to reduced production. Companies should have public commitments on reduced production based on food loss reduction programs. Indicators that would demonstrate this could be identified. • Companies and producers are there to create products to sell. Therefore, decreasing food loss will not necessarily lead to a reduction in production. 5. Understand the unique challenges facing smallholder farmers and provide resources to help them. • Understand and acknowledge the unique challenges facing smallholder farmers, who first need to meet their daily needs before addressing food loss. • Provide technical support and guidance to smallholder farmers to reduce food loss from the beginning of production. • Scale programs that assist smallholder farmers in distributing products via larger producers. • Work with the private sector to get insurance to small and medium farms. The group discussed a current example in Latin America. • Find ways to help smallholder farmers stay in the market when international trade is not possible. PARTNERSHIPS Foster partnerships with: 1. Organizations working in the broader context of sustainable development, beyond the usual stakeholders who are involved in the food supply chain. 2. Organizations that are addressing hunger and poverty. This is what food banks do, by adopting a holistic approach that includes technology, investment, new practices, and innovation, while trying to address human behaviors that cause food waste. 3. Private sector. This includes helping to create innovative insurance products to address the needs of smallholder famers. 4. Government agencies, like the ministries of agriculture, environment, and social protection, who play an important role in providing technical assistance. Via partnerships with governments, there can be more effective outreach, financial support, and assistance to bring useful innovations to smallholder farmers in remote rural areas. قراءة القليل

Discussion Topic, Group 2 By 2030, livestock production ensures planetary health by fostering soil health, soil fertility, increased carbon sequestration, and biodiversity services. ACTIONS 1. Increase promotion and knowledge-sharing about sustainable livestock production practices. • Create collaboration between smaller/newer producers and more experienced producers to create a farmer-to-farmer knowledge exchange. • Capture, study, and share traditional knowledge, especially integrated farming systems that provide ecosystem services and support livelihoods, to understand the contexts with... قراءة المزيدin which they work best. • Ensure women have the same access as men to education. 2. Create blended finance mechanisms and tailored financial instruments for farmers and increase the total availability of finance. • In certain locations this could be transition financing to move from unstable production to stable production methods, i.e. to reduce deforestation in Latin America. 3. Examples of successful practices that could be scaled up: • Create a global beef quality assurance program like the U.S. Beef Quality Assurance Program. • Integrated smallholder farming systems that have benefits for food security and income, and provide ample ecosystem services, such as those in Cambodia that also use small biodigesters to provide energy to cook food. • Successful adoption of integrated approaches that include other tree species and livestock by coffee farmers. 4. Share the evidence of sustainable production with consumers, help them understand that livestock production can be a solution to help increase demand for sustainable production. 5. Adapt innovations to work within local contexts. 6. Provide incentives for adopting innovations and solutions. For example: • Incentivize smallholder farmers to transition to more sustainable practices. • Incentivize farmers to improve the quality and sustainability of livestock production, as is already done in Germany. • Incentivize farmers to promote carbon sequestration. Find financial solutions to bring measurement tools, such as remote sensing, to smallholder farmers in developing countries; otherwise, measurement is prohibitively expensive. 7. Drive progress with government regulations and laws that repurpose subsidies, and support incentive programs. PARTNERSHIPS Foster partnerships: 1. Among players involved in the larger context of sustainable development, such as health and environment, for a more holistic approach for interventions, innovation, and solutions. 2. Between smaller, newer producers and those with more experience, as well as multi-generational farmers. 3. Between countries – both developing and developed. 4. With the financial sector, through blended finance mechanisms and tailored financial instruments. 5. Between retailers, public sector, farmers, and farmer associations. 6. Researchers and scientists who can disseminate information to farmers and consumers. 7. With animal agriculture alliances, USFRA, WFO, etc. and other rancher/farmer groups. 8. Tech experts who have monitoring methodologies, including those for carbon sequestration. 9. With schools, by providing locally grown sustainable food, especially in countries greatly relying on smallholder farmers. قراءة القليل

Discussion Topic, Group 3 By 2030, soil health is managed sustainably through sequestration and organic carbon content, rewarding farmers and land managers through payments for ecosystem services, carbon farming and trading carbon credits. ACTIONS 1. Better understand and increase the use of MRV (Measurement, Report and Verification) with technology, as soil is the most critical and diverse area related to food systems. • Practices need to be flexible to each region across the world. 2. Consider how to address the economics considering the market has been moving farmers away from diversifica... قراءة المزيدtion. 3. Climate finance is a must; this includes cover crops for smallholders. 4. Award early adopters of carbon markets. This will help uncover the value of improving soil health. 5. Need to improve/scale up projects around: • Soil carbon • Transparency for carbon (blockchain) • Science-based understanding of technologies and products which enable no-till (such as some products important for farmers, like herbicides) • Capacity building • Landscape approach 6. Engage youth – for example, through the Climate Smart Youth Ag. This initiative aims to engage 100 million youth. PARTNERSHIPS 1. A “soil hub” can be an umbrella to ensure synergy in each project to deliver each region’s vision and include farmer and youth voices. It is crucial to reinforce and support potential solution clusters coming through Action Track 3. Living Soils of the Americas (LiSA) – founded by IICA and Ohio State University with Dr Rattan Lal and considered a lighthouse project by the World Economic Forum. Bayer, PepsiCo, and other companies are supporting it and welcome newcomers. 2. Regenerative food systems with a focus on regenerative foodscapes. These are meant to be food, action land- and seascapes that show the transformative impact of improved management practices which restore nature – climate-freshwater-biodiversity – in ways that are attuned to the local culture, economic and biophysical situation. • Implementation on initial foodscape in North West India, through the support of the Bezos Earth Fund. • Foodscape started in Latin America in the Argentine Gran Chaco with initial support from IKI (20M euro program across five foodscapes in LAR) and Nestle. Agenda setting science analysis will be issued on foodscapes in Aug 2021 with partners – FOLU, SystemIQ, and CCAFS. 3. Engage youth through the 100 mllion youth coalition. 4. In the US - in the central region TNC is working to make 100 million acres sustainable by to 2030. Also, Bayer is enrolling farmers in a carbon sequestration program that pays farmers for sequestering carbon through specific practices. قراءة القليل

Discussion Topic, Group 4 By 2030, more than half of investment in agricultural innovation provides end-to-end solutions that support the SDGs related to food, climate, and environment. ACTIONS 1. Recognize economic sustainability as an essential aspect of environmental and social sustainability. 2. Recognize that smallholder farmers are often on the frontlines of catastrophic impacts of climate change, nature loss, deepening poverty, and the wide inequality gap. 3. Grow financial investments in innovative and sustainable solutions by: • Promoting multi-lateral funding and creating a flow of... قراءة المزيد financial investments in regions that are trying to advance agricultural innovation. Recognize that LMICs with a dependence on agriculture are key; help them to leapfrog the agricultural development curve and deliver benefits for people, nature, and climate. • Leveraging public funding to promote private financial investments, such as concession financing and de-risking. • Reducing exorbitant interest rates that put unreasonable burdens on farmers, particularly smallholder farmers. For example, 20+% in West Africa. • Driving procurement to regions that are advancing agricultural innovation. • Using carbon financing approaches to compensate regions for emissions reductions. • Shifting from a value chain to an ecosystems approach, while developing internal knowledge along the way. • De-risking food systems through innovation - making progress with climate and information systems. • Making innovations accessible, including to people who are the most vulnerable. • Rethinking how the private sector itself works together – because this often involves competitors working together. Right now, companies work on their own, using various platforms, which means other actors must pick companies to work with rather than picking a shared initiative on which to work. • Transforming the regulatory systems to promote end-to-end solutions, accelerating speed to address the urgency, and harmonizing regulations across countries. • Fostering collaboration among private companies in addressing pre-competitive issues. • Developing innovative payment systems to support sustainable farming. For example, using digital tech for consumer payments to go directly to farmers. 4. Ensure that the other half of investment is not actively undermining the SDGs. That is, if more than half of investment in agricultural innovation provides end-to-end solutions that support the SDGs, those efforts might yield limited results if there is little or no control over the other half of investment. PARTNERSHIPS Foster partnerships: 1. Between public and private actors to produce blended finance streams. 2. Between farmers and the private sector, including farmers who are often excluded because they don’t fit as easily within company sustainability paradigms. 3. Between the private sector and development banks for systemic approaches to leverage funding and expertise, while gathering real-time insights. 4. With consumers, to engage them in finding solutions. For example, farmer earnings are not keeping pace with consumer prices. 5. Among private sector companies to advance solutions. 6. With telecom and mobile banking providers to return more market value back to producers. 7. With research and development to inform private sector investment. قراءة القليل

Discussion Topics, Group 5 & 7 Discussion Topics, Group 5 By 2030, 100 million farmers have adopted regenerative agriculture practices, supported by 1 billion consumers who demand and support products coming from regenerative agriculture. ACTIONS 1. Ensure that regenerative agriculture (RA) is defined in a way that encourages access to tools and technology. RA is about modern agriculture and about technology and innovation (this may include fertilizer and inputs). Modern agriculture can help the soil, biodiversity, etc. • The voice of the farmer (all farmers) should be heard. 2. Provide ... قراءة المزيدtools and tech for small- to medium-sized export-oriented agricultural producers in the Global South. 3. Reach all farmers, because in some contexts, farmers don’t have access to knowledge and resources. Additionally, access to technology may not be affordable, and many new technologies are not made for small scale farmers; small scale farm technology can be substandard/outdated. Reach them through: • Government policy and legislation • Forms of shared ownership. Shareholders in countries can create a boost of benefits reaching the farmers that work with these countries. • Distribute innovations to other countries: more crop per drop, better crops with higher nutrition. • Promote a science-based approach and international standards: (e.g. global statements, global policy approaches/ frameworks), that nations can readily align themselves with. • International companies that have the access/resources can hand over the tools and tech to the farmers. • Create broad statements from the UNFSS that are science-based and provide access to tools and technology to guide national-level action. 4. Ensure that RA products are affordable for consumers to demand RA products. 5. Buy farmer direct to shorten value chain where available. PARTNERSHIPS 1. Harmonize a baseline of legislation, including standards, to create a level playing field. This is achieved via strong international engagement. 2. Leverage farmer networks where there has been success. For example, the Global Farmer Network, which consists of local and regional industry leaders and role models who can provide technology demonstrations, break down myths, and add a voice to the regulatory legislation discussion. The key is for this to be practical to provide local credibility to demonstrate that technology isn’t scary or that companies aren’t trying to take advantage of local farmers. Discussion Topic, Group 7 By 2030, 300+ million small scale agricultural producers have become resilient to climate change. ACTIONS 1. Foster the adoption of new technologies by smallholder farmers by showing that they address/solve the risk of losing crops that are so precious. 2. Dignify lives by addressing basic needs such as better living, water, and other basic supplies. • Infrastructure is important. Farmers need access to basic needs and technology, but it is difficult to talk about innovation when they don’t have access to basic resources like water. 3. Ensure financial investment – make lines of credit available for smallholders with less guarantee requirements. 4. Provide tech tools via mobile phones – they are the key device. Social media is also an important tool. • Better use of digital space - For example, companies like Bayer could provide technology to diagnose plant diseases. This could also connect to government information and support. • Digital platforms - Big data works if is run in a massive way and includes a lot of data, especially regarding smallholders. The consolidation of data is impossible – data needs to be in collaboration platforms. • Digital solutions are key. • Re-engineer rural area schools for the future. Include policy related topics in the curriculum. 5. Rethink the role of philanthropy. PARTNERSHIPS 1. Develop partnership platforms to benefit small farmers; also involve governments. 2. Companies that provide digital tools should work in collaboration platforms; the consolidation of data is very difficult with low number of farmers. Big data performance will increase with the scale-up of information. قراءة القليل

Discussion Topic, Group 6 By 2030, all food systems workers globally are paid a living wage, making rural livelihoods sustainable and attractive, and generating economic prosperity. ACTIONS 1. Identify who is responsible for providing a living wage. The responsibility needs to tailor towards the government, where farmers are paid for externalities such as weather damage, environmental impact, etc. 2. Deploy policy, innovation, and research to develop economic prosperity for small holder farmers to create a living wage. 3. Provide farmers with access to crop insurance, the best seeds, and techn... قراءة المزيدology so they can make a profit and feed their families. 4. Ask farmers what they need. Policymakers and governments then need to provide those resources to farmers. Examples include finance, infrastructure, and proper seeds for growing. The risks are huge; governments must take action to expand assistance in the farmer sector to allow for “farmer security.” 5. Introduce more dialogues for farmers to participate in and address issues they are facing in which their voices can be heard. 6. Enforce labor law and labor policies. Promote dialogue and action to help fight child labor and gender policies. Promote social policies to ensure that workers feel safe and secure. 7. Governments and trade organizations need to make farmers aware of market trade to allow farmers to expand their horizons and sell their crops, which would help secure living wages and prosperity. Africa is a clear example where crop exports are high, yet many smallholder farmers are not a part of this market trade. 8. Make farming more attractive to young people to create greater prosperity in the agriculture sector. Youth have ideas and awareness of new technology, and they can be a key solution in protecting farmer rights and making society regard farmers as an important area of expertise for prosperity. 9. Increase economic opportunity to allow advancement for each farming generation. Greater opportunity will reduce the stigma of harsh labor that keeps people from staying with farming or starting to farm, which could improve lives. 10. Create tax incentives to bring new technologies for famers, such as no-till farming, that will mitigate the risk for farmers. PARTNERSHIPS Promote partnerships: 1. Among members in the value chain to reduce the cost of food related to transportation, food waste, and pest reduction. A close network of communication from a coalition/connection between farmer, supplier, wholesaler, etc. 2. Among youth to form support in farming to advance new technologies and better wages for farmers. Such a coalition will encourage people to stay in farming. 3. Government needs to play a very important role in providing assistance and partnering with farmers to protect them. For example, providing crop insurance and subsidies for bad harvests, to help them feel secure. 4. Among big businesses involved in agriculture production, such as Bayer, and farmers to introduce products and technologies that allow farmers to reduce waste and be more efficient in keeping up with feeding a growing world population. This partnership will allow farmers to make a fair living wage and reduce the risk of pests and diseases that ruin their harvest and their security. 5. Among older and younger farmers to better understand the need for innovation and changes occurring in agri-food systems. Older farmers can introduce younger farmers to farming and also learn from younger farmers how to use more efficient technologies to improve sustainability. 6. Among researchers and scientists to provide regulatory practices to help address challenges facing farmers and provide better support for new innovations that will emerge from such research partnerships, such as gene technology. 7. Between private and public sectors, such as universities and research facilities. Such partnerships will extend the scope of research in developing farmer prosperity by bringing sustainable and attractive agricultural practices into action. قراءة القليل

Discussion Topic, Group 8 By 2030, diversity in production systems has contributed to preserving and increasing agrobiodiversity, improved production and resilience, and provided livelihood opportunities for farmers. ACTIONS 1. Use local cultivars that can resist the impact of climate change. This will help address the loss in biodiversity, which endangers ecosystems. 2. Do not blame the agriculture sector. People producing food are responding to markets, policy, and climate. Agriculture must be considered a positive. It’s about being carbon-negative and more. 3. Recognize the roadblocks to ... قراءة المزيدinnovation in the current system, especially for farmers. 4. Provide access to finance. 5. Recognize that for people in developing countries, deepening levels of poverty push farmers to put economics above the environment; they are aiming for survival. “We can’t NOT FARM.” 6. Consider the successes of developed countries and their environmental work. 7. Recognize that seed banks can be a spot where there are uncomfortable partnerships. Can we work with farmers to get those local varieties into the public-private partnership collaborations that are creating new varieties? Lean on the companies, governments, and organizations to share scientific knowledge. 8. Consider the consumer. Educate the consumer. We see changing perceptions on the quality of food, and we need farmers in the conversation because a gap exists. 9. Look at the food market as a system, too. 10. Give young people who are stepping into advisory roles a seat at the table, including the UN. Provide a forum for their solutions and use their ideas for inspiration. 11. Create a coalition to repurpose agriculture subsidies and support. Consider doing this in partnership with farmers. The climate community has been seen in opposition to farmers and that needs to change. 12. Continue exploring payments for ecosystem services. 13. Understand that for farmers working on biodiversity – pests like birds and bugs aren’t seen as beneficial by farmers. 14. Understand that there are technologies out there that are applicable, but they are dependent on things like glyphosate. What are the less toxic or less controversial chemicals? Companies need to radically change, too. Only 10-12 companies in the world dominate the input space. • Can we use other approaches that aren’t dependent on the same chemistries? 15. Recognize that small-scale farmers have different needs. Policies are too broad – they need to consider scale and location. All policies don’t work for all farmers. 16. Mitigate the fighting among farmers. Farmers have the same problems in Brazil as in France. Consumers don’t believe what they are doing anymore. They think it is so easy. 17. Diversify better. With climate change we will not have an option. 18. Understand that feeding the world sustainability does not mean we focus on fewer than 10 crops and 4 animals. Technology is key but it’s not the only answer. 19. Form coalitions for public markets. The situation in China is that with the economic growth and cities, there is aging infrastructure. Wet markets face challenges. COVID-19 exacerbated this. Let’s not create unsustainable scale in China as they grow. 20. Create partnerships based on an understanding that economics and resources influence food systems – money talks and influences decisions made by companies and policymakers, too. 21. Create coalitions to change the system so that we can include, for example, 5 crop rotations. If we do that (large scale farms in Kenya show this) then herbicides, for example, are minimized/phased out. There are pockets of real change, which is very exciting. PARTNERSHIPS Foster partnerships that can: 1. Help consumers understand what really happens on the farm and that farmers do care about agrobiodiversity and make decisions daily about how best to manage their farms for the future. 2. Form coalitions for public markets. 3. Encourage healthy eating among consumers with slow food organizations 4. Explore places across geographies to try various technologies and diversify diets. 5. Work even more closely with farmers 6. Embrace & encourage youth قراءة القليل

Discussion Topic, Group 9 By 2030, excessive consumption of animal-sourced foods has significantly dropped at the global level, associated with an increase in consumption of plant-rich diets and a switch to animal products from sustainable practices. ACTIONS 1. Shift focus from avoiding animal-sourced foods to a more diverse intake of animal-sourced foods, as well as a better balance with other foods (for example, flexitarian diets), recognizing that health issues come from the overconsumption of animal-sourced foods. 2. Improve production practices. Support sustainable production of animal pr... قراءة المزيدoteins by creating greater visibility for innovative technologies that support sustainable production of animal protein (reduced emissions, net zero, if not net negative). • We need governments to: Integrate food system reform within “building back better” plans (and not only focus on energy and mobility). Integrate into food action plans, combining health and environment plans. Redirect subventions and public procurement to prioritize products of these supply chains. For farm policy, adopt a comprehensive and inclusive approach that includes experts in human nutrition, farmers/producers, and climate experts. • We need companies/brands to: Develop technologies to reduce emissions on-farm (manure handling, enteric methane emissions, husbandry practices, genetics). Find premiums to make the choice easy for consumers. Keep farmers in the conversation (in particular, need to bring the food industry closer to the farmer). 3. Educate consumers. • Share a balanced message. Speak to healthy consumption rather than increased or decreased consumption (context-specific). • Consumer education is key, as it will allow consumers to: o Understand the impact of excessive consumption of animal-sourced foods. o Understand how animal-sourced foods are produced to help them make choices accordingly (ultimately increasing demand for sustainable production practices). • BUT make sure we don’t marginalize groups; we don’t finger point to them. • Potential actions: o Changing labels (changing “best by” to “best to use by”), including on animal-sourced foods (e.g. dairy). o Positive imaging of healthy food and portions by chefs and youth. o Regulation by governments on healthy portion size. 4. Build consensus on information such as: • What the best plate should be. • GHG data (still varying estimates today) • Pesticide use and the safety of those. PARTNERSHIPS Establish partnerships and coalitions including: 1. Regional and context-specific coalitions that include technology providers, farmers, and brands that sell products on the market (as livestock is very heterogeneous and very regional). 2. Soil health solutions and partnerships (including regenerative agriculture and carbon storage). 3. Make farmers' voices heard. Involve farmers in conversations. 4. Key question of how to partner with the food industry. قراءة القليل