حوار مستقل The Best Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Dialogue (Greater China and Overseas Mandarin-speaking Enterprises) to Provide Quality Food for All نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: الصين Discussion topic outcome Key points from SMEs in Alternative Protein and Animal Welfare: 1.Target support at food SMEs a.Most SMEs participants in our breakout room believe that with more direct and practical support from the government agencies and international NGOs, they can purchase equipment and expand their production, and maybe offset some of the inherent problems with agriculture such as high initial capital input, long payback period and unpredictable risk factors. b.These supports can come in various forms such as infrastructure improvement, funding, business consulting, and technology know-how, but they mus... قراءة المزيدt be direct, feasible, and easily accessible. c.Although China has made a tremendous effort in the past decades to focus on sustainable development. As a developing country, we still have a long way to go in terms of building a better food system, not only for the 1.4 billion people but the whole globe as well. SMEs in China are thriving, and they need more target support more than ever. 2.Make good food matter a.There are many SMEs in China making effort to build a better food system, whether it’s regenerative agriculture, eco-agriculture, animal welfare, or plant-based protein, we can see a significant increase in the number of SMEs in these fields, however, consumers are still speculating and not willing to change their behaviors right away, and contrary to popular belief, the Chinese market can be quite complicated and challenging. b.Consumers in China are often hesitant towards products from SMEs, and when it comes to food and agri-products, we are extremely price-sensitive. Good Food can be expensive, and we need to better guide them to make that justification. We need to keep educating the public, make sure the government is on borad as well from kids to senior people. c.We need more endorsement from the official authorities and researchers to further help the public change their eating habits and make better choice. 3.Reduce the cost of doing business a.Education is a luxury for a great number of farmers in China, therefore, they lack basic business knowledge, and doesn’t really understand or go along with a contract, this makes working with them almost like a gamble, which would result in a highly inconsistent and volatile supply chain for a lot of the SMEs who simply don’t have the scale and capital needed for a better solution. قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Environment and Climate, Governance, Innovation, Policy
حوار مستقل The Best Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Dialogue (Greater China and Overseas Mandarin-speaking Enterprises) to Provide Quality Food for All نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: الصين Discussion topic outcome Key points from SMEs in Agriculture and Processed Food Innovation and Production: 1.Increase more social education for biodiversity and biotech. 2.Call for more responsible capital to invest in long-term impact projects. 3.Bridge to corporations and build up trust in order to form alliances. 4.Co-develop the human welfare agriculture system in diverse groups. More technology should be involved in product design. 5.Data and industrial insights should be transparent at some level. More independent research needs to be conducted. 6.Help SMEs get financial support from the government. Compared wit... قراءة المزيدh large businesses and government-owned enterprises, SMEs have limited access to finance because many banks prefer to allocate their resources to large enterprises rather than to SMEs. 7.Create opportunities to communicate with other SMEs in the fields. This will help tackle difficulties on lack of information. With close collaboration, SMEs can have open innovation to ensure long term growth. 8.Increase market competition by working with NGOs or International organizations that promote public good. It will be a great strategy to highlight works done by SMEs while attracting potential customers. قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Data & Evidence, Finance, Governance, Policy, Women & Youth Empowerment
حوار مستقل The Best Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Dialogue (Greater China and Overseas Mandarin-speaking Enterprises) to Provide Quality Food for All نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: الصين Area of divergence When talking about ways to make good food matter, participants raised questions and concerns about the definition of good food, as there were some clashes between plant-based manufacturers and agribusinesses who produce food the traditional way (in the sense of following ancient Chinese nature-positive methods). They believe that the concept of Good Food is rather arbitrary without a given context, and we need different voices in the market as well as more sound research and education regarding different products and their corresponding practices in the full value chain. There are also some di... قراءة المزيدfferent views about the role of government when it comes to aiding SMEs. While most participants agree that they need more practical and implementable policies targeting directly and exclusively to SMEs, some participants urge that as companies, they shouldn’t be relying on assistance from the government. SMEs should focus mainly on strengthening their business acumen and participate in fair market competition, the mentality of waiting for positive external factors can be detrimental to the long-term growth of SMEs and the market as a whole. That being said, they do believe that the policymakers can and should do a better job at creating an equitable environment and leveling the playing field for SMEs and large corporations. قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Environment and Climate, Governance, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
حوار مستقل The Best Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Dialogue (Greater China and Overseas Mandarin-speaking Enterprises) to Provide Quality Food for All نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: الصين Major focus The main focus of this dialogue is to pinpoint the challenges SMEs in China are facing, and how to tackle the challenges and boost their roles in providing good food for all. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are vital to our food economies, from bakeries to farm suppliers, coffee co-ops to digital start-ups. Each country is different, but SMEs often make up over 90% of businesses in the agri-food sector, creating half the economic value, providing more than half the sector’s jobs, and handling more than half the food consumed. Through the COVID pandemic, their tenacity and agility h... قراءة المزيدave sustained food supplies and access. Frequently overlooked, these everyday businesses make billions of decisions that shape our food systems. Only hand-in-hand with SMEs, can the world deliver good food for all. What pathways will enhance the contribution of SMEs to the food system? We asked this question of SMEs, their supporters and food system leaders. To prompt discussion, Wasafiri, curator of the Dialogues, offers six promising pathways to boost the impact of food SMEs. Which are most important in your context? What is missing? What actions will advance them? How are they interdependent? These pathways are: 1. Elevate the voice of SMEs 2. Reduce the cost of doing business 3. Reward positive outcomes 4. Target support at food SMEs 5. Democratise the digital food revolution 6. Make good food matter قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Environment and Climate, Governance, Policy
حوار مستقل The Best Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Dialogue (Greater China and Overseas Mandarin-speaking Enterprises) to Provide Quality Food for All نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: الصين Main findings The findings are two-part. The first part revolves around current challenges SMEs are facing： 1.Lack of government support targeting directly to SMEs. 2.Lack of regulation regarding new food products and their exporting rules. 3.Lack of public understanding of the potential positive impact of a plant-based diet and lack of appreciation of better-quality food. 4.Discrepancy between the sporadic, inconsistent and often low supply from small-scale farmers and large demand. 5.Low education and lack of decent business practice from the small-scale farmers. 6.Policymakers are hesitant about new tr... قراءة المزيدends and practices that are nature-positive or help provide good food for all. 7.Inability to acquire sufficient funding or complete financial services. The second part is about how to better build these pathways and boost their role in providing good food for all. The pathways that were brought up the most are: 1.Target support at food SMEs 2.Elevate the voice of SMEs 3.Make good food matter قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Governance, Innovation, Policy
حوار مستقل The Best Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Dialogue (Greater China and Overseas Mandarin-speaking Enterprises) to Provide Quality Food for All نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: الصين Discussion topic outcome All SMEs participants are assigned to 4 different groups, the background of these SMEs were categorized as Agriculture, Food education, Plant-based protein, Animal Welfare, Hospitality, Food Processing, and Production. Each group has a host of SMEs in different streams within the food systems. And the discussion is carried out by answering the questions: Which pathways are most important in the participants’ context? What is missing? What actions will advance them? How are they interdependent? Key points from SMEs in Agriculture and Food Education: 1.Increase the visibility of SMEs a.Leverag... قراءة المزيدe national policies and relevant government departments to support eco-healthy food, food education, and SMEs 2.Reduce the cost of SMEs a.The price of food products is unstable because small-scale farmers have low productivity. The farmers could establish agriculture cooperates and supply their products in big amounts to SMEs. b.SMEs need more financial services and support c.Since farms are in remote areas, infrastructure needs to be improved to reduce operation costs. 3.Increase public awareness in terms of the sustainable food system a.single SMEs are not able to change consumer awareness on their own b.Promote food education 4.Promote cooperation and communication among SMEs in the food system. قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Environment and Climate, Innovation, Policy, Women & Youth Empowerment
حوار مستقل Monitoring and Evaluation for Food Systems Transformation نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: لا حدود جغرافية Major focus The focus of this dialogue developing more effective monitoring and evaluation for food systems transformation. Areas of focus included: • Identify critical gaps and challenges where stakeholders need new evidence or science to more effectively track progress against food system transformation goals. • Identify synergies among data used for monitoring and evaluation in different components of the food system. مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Data & Evidence
حوار مستقل Monitoring and Evaluation for Food Systems Transformation نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: لا حدود جغرافية Main findings The focus of this dialogue developing more effective monitoring and evaluation for food systems transformation. Areas of focus included: • Identify critical gaps and challenges where stakeholders need new evidence or science to more effectively track progress against food system transformation goals. • Identify synergies among data used for monitoring and evaluation in different components of the food system. مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Data & Evidence
حوار مستقل Using Data for Food Systems Transformation نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: لا حدود جغرافية Major focus The focus of this dialogue was broad: using data for food systems transformation. Key areas of focus included: • Existing opportunities and challenges associated with large-scale datasets • Prioritizing the primary data users and primary data collectors so datasets work for them (i.e., how can we center farmers’ needs, as primary data collectors?) • Developing systems-level data sharing and data sets for systems-level change مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Data & Evidence
حوار مستقل Using Data for Food Systems Transformation نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: لا حدود جغرافية Main findings • Data collection needs to work for farmers. That might mean thinking of data as “data interaction” rather than collection – it’s a two-way process, and producers are at the front lines. Data collection and interaction methods need to develop basic levels of trust, especially because farmers are the decision-makers at the field level. • Data architecture and infrastructure is a recurring and critical problem in the food systems space. We need improved coordination across scales and methodology. One specific threat is proprietary data at the company or producer level, despite the cr... قراءة المزيدitical need to share data in a way that helps others. How can we develop models of social organization that make data-sharing more feasible? In addition, cross-use datasets, data storage, and data sharing across organizations, government agencies, and other users continues to be a critical challenge. Even in emergency situations like drought or famine, agencies struggle to effectively cooperate and data-share to effectively deploy response and aid. • We need to develop better adaptive management for data and evidence systems. Right now, most data systems are reactive rather than proactive in that they follow a pre-set model for collection and analysis. We need adaptive management of our data and evidence systems to ensure that they are responsive to the changing needs of the food system and ongoing food systems transformation. • To build effective data systems, we need to understand the end user. Who is data trying to influence? For example, there is limited appetite for consumers to drive change, but companies could drive change in the supply chain to have a larger impact on consumer choice. To translate data into effective decision-making, we need to understand who the decision-makers are, and what types of outputs they will listen to. • We need more refined metrics and data for measuring food transitions. There are extensive metrics and datasets focused on production, but there are less clear for the consumption side of the system. We need to discuss and refine the role of corporations in driving corporate transitions, food labelling systems, and purchasing patterns to better understand what drives consumer choice. There are a lot of data gaps in this field still. We also need further work on aligning data across scales and being able to integrate datasets and develop datasets that allow us to see a systems perspective. قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Data & Evidence
أستراليا, الصين, فيجي, إندونيسيا, كيريباس, ماليزيا, نيوزيلندا Transforming Kiribati Food System in the Atoll Setting Major focus Kiribati saw it best and cost effective to pair up the 4 Action Tracks: Nutrition and Diet, Nature and Resilience, while letting the Livelihood Track stand alone on its own. The 5 key actors (Agriculture, Fisheries, Nutrition, Commerce, and National Disaster Office) also named here as a Technical Group saw the linkages and some overlaps between the 2 pairs and so they agreed to focus on them. It was also perceived that the standalone Track - Livelihood - would serve as the optimum goal if all gaps in the paired Action Tracks are identified and practically solved. The Technical Group therefore ... قراءة المزيدdivided itself into 3 major working groups of Action Tracks - Nutrition and Diet (Agriculture, Nutrition, Commerce and Fisheries), Nature and Resilience (Environment, National Disaster, and Agriculture), and Livelihood (Agriculture, Fisheries, Nutrition, Environment, and Commerce). These 3 working groups put together their resources - information and data in order to present the current situation in each Action Track and at the same time to see the issues and challenges faced and then to recommend best ways forward that would be compatible with other pathways from other 2 groups. The ultimate focus therefore is to enable all actors in the Food System to recognize themselves and to see the value of their roles. At the same time, the focus is to unite these actors and direct them to pathways that would transform the Food System - pathways that would meet the ambitious UNSDG Targets and pathways that would foster the health of the I-Kiribati person and enrich his/her livelihood in his/her fragile atoll setting. قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
أستراليا, الصين, فيجي, إندونيسيا, كيريباس, ماليزيا, نيوزيلندا Transforming Kiribati Food System in the Atoll Setting Main findings The main findings of the National Dialogue are listed below with their concise details: (1) Nutrition and Diet: The high cases of NCDs and mortality rate of children under 5 are the major national concerns and was agreed that the Ministry of Health is not the only Ministry to deal with issues related to poor nutrition, NCDs, and premature deaths of children under 5 years. This is the shared role of all key actors in the Food System - all Ministries are therefore encouraged to be more proactive in factoring Nutrition in their their programmes and Ministerial Plans. Changing the mindset of the p... قراءة المزيدeople is the major challenge especially in changing the eating habit and diet of the people - requiring all actors to come up with a way forward to change this in their respective programmes. It was also agreed in the National Dialogue that Nutrition is well factored and included in the school curriculum for the Primary school level through to senior level. Teaching healthy foods to the young children as source of good health and productive life is lacking and this needs to be strengthened immediately. Internalizing the value of eating health green and blue foods amongst the young is the key for healthy future of the country. Also the Dialogue saw the Church as the one closest to the people. It can move its communities and people so more consultations with the church-based groups is seen urgent so church leaders can also include healthy food values in their church and social teachings and programmes - and to move their members into healthy activities and taking healthy foods. Fisheries and Farming activities in the outer islands need to be adequately supported by Government. The provision of farming materials, equipment or tools, fishing gear and capacity building need to be more regular and more proactive, the access to freight levy assistance need to be reviewed so more green and blue produce be covered and more farmers and fishermen can easily access the fund. Also the transport of produce from outer islands need to be synchronized where possible so both the farmers and fishermen can be adequately served rather than each having their own transport arrangements. Other online marketing strategies need to be quickly developed so produce or fish delivery can be done online. Also the food import needs to be properly managed and controlled with incentives given to local producers to trade off those imported foods. In this way the imports will be regularly reviewed and reduced as local production increases. For fisheries, more capacity building is needed in the area of cooking edible varieties of seaweed so abundant in Kiribati, value adding of fish products including transshipped fish in order to reduce the high imports of canned fish. Food processing of pandanus and other vegetables like breadfruits need to be pursued immediately. More support needs to be stepped up towards coconut virgin oil and toddy sugar productions, egg, chicken and piggery operations. (2) On the Nature and Resilience Tracks, the National Dialogue also agreed to employ new climate smart farming technologies with the active leadership of the Agriculture and the technical and financial support of the Global Green Growth Institute and with the active involvement of NGOs. The harsh atoll conditions of the islands in Kiribati - compounded with the impacts of climate change would benefit much from this climate smart techniques after a number of successful trials. This technique therefore need to be quickly disseminated to the farmers and also to be trialed to mangrove planting in coastal eroded areas. To be included in the capacity building is the making of compost so home organic waste can be meaningfully utilized to clean home areas and to grow more healthy foods. The training on preparation of foods from traditional food crops needs to be advocated and included in the school curriculum as well. (3) To strengthen the livelihood of the people of Kiribati; all players of the abovementioned activities need to work closely than ever. قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
أستراليا, الصين, فيجي, إندونيسيا, كيريباس, ماليزيا, نيوزيلندا Transforming Kiribati Food System in the Atoll Setting Discussion topic outcome From the main findings presented above, these are the outcomes and directions to be undertaken: (1) Ministry of Education to work on the Nutrition curriculum suitable for Kiribati students in the primary and secondary levels. The Global Green Growth Institute to also assist in this exercise; (2) Ministries of Agriculture and Fisheries to work closer than ever to serve their farmers and fishermen associations - providing them with the needed materials, equipment, gear, training, and transport logistics so they can produce and catch more and their produce can reach the Tarawa market in a timely ... قراءة المزيدand organized manner The same Ministries to make better marketing plans for the fishermen and farmers so their catch and produce are better preserved and sold at a reasonable price; (3) The Ministry of Finance (Statistics Office) and Ministry of Commerce in close consultations with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to review the Special Levy Act with purpose of incorporating more healthy green and blue food and improving trade from outer islands - making access to the fund easier to farmers, fishermen and retailers; (4) The Ministry of Commerce and National Statistics office to work closer with the Ministries of Agriculture and Fisheries to check on local production capacity and to make necessary adjustments to the import level of imported foods. The right incentives to be devised to encourage local productions and to reduce import level on certain foods. This is a big exercise that needs to be worked out in close consultation with the Chamber of Commerce (Private Sector) especially in the identification of food items to be controlled in this import review exercise and in obtaining their cooperation, support and understanding; (5) Ministry of Health to set a standard and strict nutrition and basic hygiene regulation to food vendors in the public and in schools and in restaurants; (6) Tuna pouching to go ahead as early as possible to make best use of the transshipped reject tuna from DWFNs vessels and to end the ongoing unfair competition with the artisanal fishermen. This will also help cut imports on tinned fish; (7) Fisheries to go ahead in value-adding of fisheries products like seaweed, fish snacks and jerkies; (8) Fruit processing to be revived with special focus on vitamin-A rich pandanus fruit. Other fruits will be included; (9) A Food System Task Force to be established after the Global Food Summit in September this year and to be comprised all actors in the Food System including church-group leaders and the Ministry of Education and to be supported financially by the Government. Cabinet Paper on this to be prepared by MELAD and submitted to Cabinet after the Summit. قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
أستراليا, الصين, فيجي, إندونيسيا, كيريباس, ماليزيا, نيوزيلندا Transforming Kiribati Food System in the Atoll Setting Area of divergence Potential areas of divergence are listed below: (1)Trade-offs on certain imported foods. The private sector have large role in understanding this. For example the importation of canned and plastic-packaged foods from Asia needs to be in English not just on the outside package but in the inner smaller packages as well as in ingredients for noodle salts and oils. Those food staff not meeting this requirement will be banned from the country; (2)On limiting the imports of certain food items where they can be locally produced, again the private sector needs to understand and support this. Certain f... قراءة المزيدood items like tinned fish, vegetables, eggs, cooking and fragrance oils, drink-sweetners like ‘pop-ups’, ‘cool-c’ with variety of flavours, animal feeds, needs to be evaluated against the local production capacity. There are local producers in the areas of vegetable farming, poultry and piggery, coconut virgin oil and body oils, toddy sugars with various flavours. The idea is to provide the right level of incentive to those local suppliers who can meet the set targets aimed at reducing the imports. The exercise is a painstaking one and needs a lot of care to ensure food security in the country is not affected in any way.; (3)The Ministry of Fisheries needs to slowly handover its local fish marketing activities in order to pour more support and technical capacity to the private sector and fishermen associations; (4)Chemical fertilizers will continue to be banned to protect Kiribati fragile atoll environment and to ensure that all local production are organic; (5) Local produce market structure needs to be properly regulated to ensure the competitiveness of the local production against the imported vegetables. Farmers and vegetable vendors who now sell produce at very high and unreasonable prices need to understand this while financial and technical support from Government keeps flowing to areas that it will maximize production and mobilization of produce; (6) Changing the mindset of the people is the main challenge and Government needs to intervene in certain areas like restricting the sales of unhealthy foods to school children and serving imbalanced foods in restaurants and banning the importation of super fatty foods. The Church based groups need to also 'preach' these in their outreach to their members and schools need to teach these values to students. قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 الكلمات الأساسية: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
حوار مستقل Transforming our food and land use systems – global trends and Australia’s opportunity نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: أستراليا Discussion topic outcome The need for new knowledge and understanding as critical enabler of change: beyond identifying the problems and challenges, we need both sophisticated research and analysis to understand future scenarios and pathways (such as the Land Use Futures program LUTO modelling, part of the global FABLE initiative), as well as frameworks for the measurement and valuation of natural capital, including via the Taskforce for Nature Related Financial Disclosures. مسار (مسارات) العمل: 2, 3 الكلمات الأساسية: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Policy
حوار مستقل Transforming our food and land use systems – global trends and Australia’s opportunity نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: أستراليا Discussion topic outcome The need for the public and private sectors, including financial institutions, to support diversification of farm businesses and to enable new revenue streams, including via natural capital valuation, in order to support both financial and environmental sustainability and to recognise the positive role of farmers in the solutions to climate change. مسار (مسارات) العمل: 2, 3 الكلمات الأساسية: Environment and Climate, Finance, Policy
حوار مستقل Transforming our food and land use systems – global trends and Australia’s opportunity نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: أستراليا Discussion topic outcome Climate volatility and high on-farm costs mean Australian farmers need to have either high levels of equity or off-farm income in order to survive, or to support their transition to more sustainable practices. This need for diversification and financial backing should be supported by both the public and private sectors. For instance, natural capital is becoming a highly valuable and sought-after asset class in its own right, and new opportunities for farmers to create revenue streams through both nature protection and restoration is critical in supporting a future sustainable system. مسار (مسارات) العمل: 3, 4 الكلمات الأساسية: Environment and Climate, Finance, Policy
حوار مستقل Transforming our food and land use systems – global trends and Australia’s opportunity نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: أستراليا Discussion topic outcome The need for farmers to have a voice at the policy table, particularly in fine-tuning the decisions and actions taken within sustainable pathways, and ensuring farmers are supported to produce sustainable products, through consumer demand, and through public and private institutional initiatives, as well as supported in the implementation of policies. مسار (مسارات) العمل: 2, 3, 4 الكلمات الأساسية: Environment and Climate, Governance, Policy
حوار مستقل Transforming our food and land use systems – global trends and Australia’s opportunity نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: أستراليا Area of divergence - Consumers play a powerful role in farmers’ choices, and the pressure on farmers to produce sustainable products is increasingly difficult. In our Dialogue, divergence emerged around consumer willingness to pay, with the view that consumers are demanding ever-lower prices (for instance, in the 1960s, expenditure on food was 16% of income, now down to 6%) contrasted with the view that consumers are increasingly concerned with product provenance, and prepared to pay a premium for quality, sustainable and locally produced food. In the Australian context, this also relates to a particular cultu... قراءة المزيدral value around supporting local farmers. Further, participants noted similarities around this topic in the New Zealand context, where some farmers are resisting the consequences of government climate policy on the cost of production (acknowledging that Australia and New Zealand have some of the lowest levels of agricultural subsidies), and in the European context, where there is a challenge to square the demand for ever-cheaper food with a demand for a sustainable agriculture sector. - Divergence emerged around the role of regulation, with discussion around the fact that resistance to over-regulation is not limited to large scale farming enterprises, but exists in small-to-medium businesses as well. Divergent views around the appropriate level of regulation, access to natural resources and instruments for supporting and enabling positive change were discussed, and supported by participant commentary including the fact that farmers often feel dictated to and misunderstood in regulatory discussions, versus the view that self-regulation has not been effective in shifting behaviour. - The role of climate change policy and how it translates to sustainable food and agriculture policies, including impacts on farming businesses, provoked divergent views with participants commenting that farmers are rarely seen as part of the solution, and views that most policy treats farmers as unaware of broader environmental issues and/or opposed to supporting solutions. - The role of financial markets and government subsidies sparked debate, including how to approach these instruments in combination and at what scale, for example, combining private natural capital markets with ecosystem service subsidies, at a state-level prior to a federal approach, and at different paces for large scale enterprises versus small-to-medium farm businesses. - The debate on chemical use versus regenerative practices was raised in the Dialogue, with diverse views around the ongoing role of chemicals (e.g. to support minimum or no-tillage) as well as the application of suitable regenerative practices at large scales, including increasing soil carbon, maintaining ground cover and restoring biodiversity. This highlighted a theme of divergence around the role of various solutions (both on-ground practices and regulatory and policy responses) to achieve sustainable food and land use systems. - The issue of ‘just transitions’ was raised, given the complexity of farming systems, with panellists and participants acknowledging the diversity of challenges faced by sub-sectors (e.g. horticulture vs. livestock). There was discussion on the need to develop ‘basic principles’ to ensure a just transition, with farmers and representative bodies closely involved in decision-making, as well as the need for ‘skin in the game’ to build alignment and support where increased regulation is required. قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4 الكلمات الأساسية: Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Policy, Trade-offs
حوار مستقل Transforming our food and land use systems – global trends and Australia’s opportunity نطاق التركيز الجغرافي: أستراليا Major focus The focus of our Dialogue was the nexus between climate outcomes and sustainable food and land use system transformation, with discussion on Australia’s role in global efforts and the unique regional challenges we face. Our Dialogue focused on Action Tracks 2 and 3, convening discussion on nature-positive transitions and sustainable consumption through focusing on synergies and shared challenges from the perspectives of: - The Land Use Futures systems change program, a partnership between ClimateWorks Australia, Deakin University and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organi... قراءة المزيدsation (CSIRO) and part of the global Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU); - The work of advocacy organisations such as Farmers for Climate Action in bringing farmers’ voices to the decision-making table and discussing both the shared and divergent challenges and approaches farmers are taking; and - The role of large-scale financial investment in realising nature-positive solutions, and current trends and headwinds in financial risk and opportunities, represented by Pollination Group. قراءة القليل مسار (مسارات) العمل: 2, 3 الكلمات الأساسية: Environment and Climate
