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Mongolia, along with other UN Member States, adopted the SDGs Agenda 2030 in 2015, announcing its commitment to sustainable development. The deadline for achieving the goals is less than 10 years away and many of these goals—especially on sustainable food systems—are not yet within easy reach. The Mongolian Government is therefore stepping up its efforts to achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable food production. The task of ensuring that all people have access to enough, safe and nutritious food is closely linked to efforts in a range of other areas including priv... قراءة المزيدate sector development, job creation, livelihoods, natural resource management, climate change, biodiversity, gender equality, governance, health, education and nutrition. The Government of Mongolia will therefore take an integrated systems approach to the development of food and agriculture sector. Within this decade, the government will intensify efforts to increase sustainable food production, improve nutrition, enhance job and value creation, and promote capacity building and good governance. Special attention will be paid towards small-scale farmers, herders, small and medium enterprises and engagement of Mongolian youth in shaping this agenda. These efforts will build on what the government is already doing including strengthening cooperation with partners and stakeholders. A number of key Ministries, international development partners, civil society, farmer organizations, youth organizations, and the private sector are expected to play a role. The High-level dialogue kept in focus the main Action Tracks of the dialogues along with all the government goals mentioned above. Specifically, it focused on identifying medium-to-long term policy and action changes that are necessary to transform the food systems in Mongolia together with the main food systems stakeholders. قراءة القليل

Mongolia adopted the Vision 2050 in early 2020 as the key mechanism to nurture and achieve Mongolian aspiration to become one of the leading Asian countries in terms of social development, economic growth and quality of life. It sets a clear framework and targets for key sectors, including agriculture and the environment. It prioritizes sustainable crop and livestock production, grassland management, protection of biodiversity, and reversal of land degradation and sustainable management as well as building national capacity and mechanisms for adaptation to Climate change. The Vision 2050 princ... قراءة المزيدiples for sectoral development include (i) adoption of advanced technologies with high productivity in including encouragement of new products, production and service innovations; (ii) encouragement of production methods that are natural resource-efficient, and (iii) compliance with the principles of efficiency and effectiveness in all economic and social sectors. Within Food and Agriculture sector, the Vision places special emphasis on enhanced increase productivity in crop and animal agriculture; regulation of livestock numbers in line with grazing capacity; adoption of international standards in traceability and development of an internationally competitive livestock sector with particular emphasis on the export livestock and livestock products. In addition, the vision emphasizes provision of healthy and safe food products to the population, decent employment creation throughout the agriculture value chain, proper knowledge and skills to have a decent, etc. The vision also pays particular attention to establishing national capacity to cope with climate change, strengthening disaster disk management capacity, establishing early detection and early warning systems and educating citizens on coping with climate change through a framework of lifelong education. Within the broad framework of Vision 2050, Mongolia will intensify its efforts in pursuit of better production, better nutrition, better environment and better life. The government will encourage a more integrated approach to increase nature positive and resilient production systems, improve food security and nutrition, enhance job and value creation, and promote capacity building and good governance. Following broad action points have been identified to achieve this overall objective. Modern smart digital information and communication technologies will play an increasingly important in achieving these objectives . قراءة القليل

1. Food security, malnutrition and dietary patterns • Support national authorities in developing nutrition plans and to strengthen public education campaigns about dietary diversity, diet-related diseases, role of healthy diets and minimizing food waste. • Strengthen food consumption, production, and food system statistics (including food loss and waste) to track progress, strengthen monitoring, support evidence based policy making, and to contribute to reduced food waste and improved utilisation of resources • Accelerate the development and implementation of policies on food safety and ... قراءة المزيدpromote comprehensive vocational training related to food systems • Strengthen institutions and legislation of relevance to food safety, including legislation on pesticides and animal and plant health and increase knowledge about this legislation throughout the food value chain. • Improve information and guidance on maternal and child health and implement measures to improve nutrition for schoolchildren, young people and adults. Efforts to improve nutrition will be more closely linked to food production, health and education including dissemination of information about maternal health and more diverse diets. • Further strengthening of school feeding programmes with an aim to provide more budget and giving priority to diverse locally produced food and mainstreaming nutrition/healthy diets education in school curriculum. قراءة القليل

2. Value chains and markets • Prioritize support for small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurs in the areas of business development, access to commercial finance and help to put in place risk-mitigation instruments for start-up businesses. • Ensure that more women are able to engage in the full range of business activities along food value chains, by providing start-up support to women entrepreneurs, supporting the establishment of women’s groups, and promoting women’s access to loans and credit. • Promote farmer/herder organizations to build capacities, generate scale and enhan... قراءة المزيدce their bargaining power so as to facilitate a fairer sharing of value across the market chain • Build competence in the field of food processing, packaging and marketing by making available appropriate technology and financing • Develop a long -term vision, strategy and action plan for agriculture exports and provide coordinated support and leadership from the government in exploring new markets and facilitating entry of Mongolian firms into those potential markets. • Establish credible certification and traceability mechanisms and harmonize food safety and quality standards for mitigating cross-border risks. • Leverage/combine the power of youth and that of digital technologies to modernize food value chains, improve labor productivity in food and agriculture sector and enhance competitiveness. • Develop and promote “Mongol brand” food products in the international and domestic markets • Accelerate the process for obtaining FMD (Foot and Mouth Disease) free zone certification for Western Mongolia. • Competition policy, FDI, enabling business environment • Comprehensively reassess the public expenditure and subsidies in food and agriculture and align the budgeting processes to SDGs • Financial sector reforms aimed at reducing the overall cost of capital and facilitating access to newer technologies and practices. قراءة القليل

3. Nature positive and resilient production systems • Strengthen the knowledge and skills needed for sustainable food production at local, national and global level. This will include improving extension services and vocational training in areas related to food systems, and strengthening knowledge in the fields of climate-resilient food production practices, increasing agricultural productivity in cooperation with herders, farmers and youth • Develop and institutionalize a uniquely Mongolian measure/index that captures the value of Mongolian culture, psychological wellbeing of people, stan... قراءة المزيدdard of living, good governance, health and nutrition, and ecological diversity and resilience . • Mount a massive program on vegetable production to contribute to dietary diversity and reduce dependence on imported vegetables • Declare ‘Dairy Production’ as key priority sector and put in place appropriate institutional structure based on best global practices to foster long term development of dairy sector in a manner that contributes to nutrition, job creation (specially for women) and GHG mitigation • Increase access to the necessary inputs for food production and to information about the correct use of inputs. The government will also promote integrated pest management as an alternatives to chemical pesticides. • Institutionalize One Health approach and accelerate its implementation to protect animal and plant health and the fight against antimicrobial resistance. • Strengthen the management of genetic diversity of crops and livestock at local, national and international level including investing in the knowledge of herders and farmers about plant varieties and animal breeds, and provide access to a greater variety of both. • Promote use of conservation agriculture and climate smart livestock production practices to mitigate climate change and reduce releases of pollutants to air, soil and water • Reduce and regulate the number of livestock as committed in Mongolia’s NDCs and align incentives (including recently approved pasture use tax) in support of that objective • Promote global good practices, policy measures and regulatory instruments to promote ecosystems conservation and regeneration and create legal environment for operationalizing payment for ecosystem services. • Develop and implement a special program that encourages recycling of water from snow and rain into agriculture production. • Support the development of shock responsive social protection systems, forecast-based financing for risk reduction measures and insurance schemes for vulnerable food producers and other vulnerable groups. • Strengthen the development of weather and climate services for farmers and pastoralists to ensure increased access to, and use of, these services. • Increase knowledge about climate change, natural disasters, and disaster risk reduction­ among food producers. • Mainstream climate-resilient and sustainable food and agriculture interventions into 10-year-long Targeted Development Programs قراءة القليل

Within the Thematic area III. Boost nature-positive production and build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stress following actions are proposed: -To support the production of advanced technology based, export oriented, value-added products; -Develop a comprehensive logistics network for agricultural food products and improve the operation of the Agriculture Stock Exchange; -To develop the regional cluster models for agriculture food processing plants; -Implement a policy to train food technology specialists abroad; -Improving the business environment for local livestock, agriculture a... قراءة المزيدnd SMEs -To support and develop domestic production of imported ingredients/raw materials required for the processing of agricultural food products -To establish meat, milk and vegetable processing plants based on sound analytical research -To improve the education program/curriculum of the TVET, Colleges and Universities in the food sector programs; -To create a legal environment for introducing an ecosystem service payment mechanisms which favors the environmentally friendly agriculture production; -Develop and implement a special program which encourages re-using water from snow, rain in the agriculture; -To introduce innovative processing technologies in the meat factories and develop brand products -To improve the livestock breed and support intensive farming -To evaluate the current government support and subsidy programs for agriculture sector and update based on sound analysis -Introduce and localize the hydroponic technology in forage cultivation -Introduce advanced technology to use grey water in production -Use the livestock tax as an incentive for sustainable pasture use قراءة القليل

The Central Region has high capacity to develop intensive animal husbandry and agriculture plantations due to the agriculture favorable land and climate. However, the food systems logistic and infrastructure is still poorly developed. In terms of the main challenges faced the regions in Mongolia faced similar issues such as: Weak policy and legal environment of the food systems; food safety standards are not fully met; the big difference in the consumption of diverse food between the rural and urban population; poorly develop education and information system regarding the healthy and diverse f... قراءة المزيدood in schools; poor capacity of human resource working in the nutrition and food sciences; policy incoherence in the sector; lack of investment opportunities for running a food business in the rural areas; small markets and poor infrastructure; lack of detailed information on food security indicators for low-income and rural population; women's employment opportunities are limited by age, occupation and experience; herder continuity is being lost and the number of young herders is declining due to the fast urbanization; weak raw material supply chain and system. قراءة القليل

Outcomes from the thematic area I. Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for the population and promote sustainable consumption: -To develop and ensure the food policy and legal environment of the food systems -To introduce and implement international quality standards at all stages of the value chain -Reduce dependency on imports of key food items and increase food accessibility for urban and rural population -To improve the coherence of policy and planning in the food systems -Establish and develop smart/digital food tracking system technologies -To improve the capacity and management of... قراءة المزيد the specialists and professional nutritionists working in the hospitals, schools and kindergartens -To conduct more awareness raising and improve public knowledge and attitudes regarding the healthy diets. -Support the development of local food waster recycling and by-products processing plants at the regional level; -To develop and introduce a focused school program on nutrition, diet and food waste in the regional primary and middle schools; -There is a need to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the consumption, hygiene and quality control of domestic and imported products, and organize work to promote rational use; -To conduct and organize awareness raising on the food waste recycling and reusing amongst the general public; -To improve the education program about the food, diet habits and nutrition from young age; -To improve the control mechanisms in antibiotics residuals in meat and milk and pest residual in vegetables. In order to implement these actions multi-stakeholder participation is needed. From farmers to the policy makers all actors along the food value chain need to have the same level of commitment in order to start transforming the food systems. قراءة القليل

Outcomes from the thematic area II. Advance equitable livelihoods and Value Distribution -Support the development of value-chain added products and regional cluster business models for livestock raw materials and products; -To create favorable business environment for food businesses and producers; -Create favorable environment to support innovation activities aimed at improving long-term business efficiency and competitiveness; -To commercialize live animals, animal origin raw materials, by-products and create economic value; -To increase the private sector investment; -To analyze and improve... قراءة المزيد the policies of welfare and industrialization; -To organize systematically capacity building trainings focusing on marketing, production technologies, investment project proposal writing, business planning etc. To tackle the existing barriers to increase employment and improve the livelihoods of women, youth and vulnerable groups following actions are proposed: -To Improve the number and availability of kindergartens and childcare services, and increase women's employment opportunities; -Develop and implement a special education program/curriculum to train young herders -Implement investment policy to support household production and business -Support youth employment through soft loans and investment policies -To support co-operative production and business -Implement a training program for women entrepreneurs or women led businesses -Provide financial support to vulnerable groups in the food system, support them to start production and develop a sales network; -Implement effective welfare policies for vulnerable groups and combine welfare and employment policies -Provide vocational training to young people in accordance with their needs قراءة القليل

Regional level National Dialogue in Food System had three main focuses which explored the Action Tracks of the Summit. To adapt into the local context, the action tracks were combined into three thematic area as follows: 1)Thematic area 1: Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for the population and promote sustainable consumption; 2) Thematic area 2: Advance equitable livelihoods and wealth distribution; 3) Thematic area 3: Boosting nature-positive production and building resilience to vulnerability, shock and stress Each thematic are was discussed in the separate breakout rooms with repr... قراءة المزيدesentation from different background actors. The discussion focus was on the challenges aced in each thematic area, solutions that participants are proposing to tackle the issue in the medium (5 years) and in the long term (in 10 and above years). Major focus was on the solutions specific to the region, their area and nature positive solutions that could be incorporated into the current policy documents for better food systems in the future. قراءة القليل

Outcomes from the thematic area II. Advance equitable livelihoods and Value Distribution -Support the development of value-chain added products and regional cluster business models for livestock raw materials and products; -To create favorable business environment for food businesses and producers; -Create favorable environment to support innovation activities aimed at improving long-term business efficiency and competitiveness; -To commercialize live animals, animal origin raw materials, by-products and create economic value; -To increase the private sector investment; -To analyze and improve... قراءة المزيد the policies of welfare and industrialization; -To organize systematically capacity building trainings focusing on marketing, production technologies, investment project proposal writing, business planning etc. To tackle the existing barriers to increase employment and improve the livelihoods of women, youth and vulnerable groups following actions are proposed: -To Improve the number and availability of kindergartens and childcare services, and increase women's employment opportunities; -Develop and implement a special education program/curriculum to train young herders -Implement investment policy to support household production and business -Support youth employment through soft loans and investment policies -To support co-operative production and business -Implement a training program for women entrepreneurs or women led businesses -Provide financial support to vulnerable groups in the food system, support them to start production and develop a sales network; -Implement effective welfare policies for vulnerable groups and combine welfare and employment policies -Provide vocational training to young people in accordance with their needs قراءة القليل

Within the Thematic area III. Boost nature-positive production and build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stress following actions are proposed: -To support the production of advanced technology based, export oriented, value-added products; -Develop a comprehensive logistics network for agricultural food products and improve the operation of the Agriculture Stock Exchange; -To develop the regional cluster models for agriculture food processing plants; -Implement a policy to train food technology specialists abroad; -Improving the business environment for local livestock, agriculture a... قراءة المزيدnd SMEs -To support and develop domestic production of imported ingredients/raw materials required for the processing of agricultural food products -To establish meat, milk and vegetable processing plants based on sound analytical research -To improve the education program/curriculum of the TVET, Colleges and Universities in the food sector programs; -To create a legal environment for introducing an ecosystem service payment mechanisms which favors the environmentally friendly agriculture production; -Develop and implement a special program which encourages re-using water from snow, rain in the agriculture; -To introduce innovative processing technologies in the meat factories and develop brand products -To improve the livestock breed and support intensive farming -To evaluate the current government support and subsidy programs for agriculture sector and update based on sound analysis -Introduce and localize the hydroponic technology in forage cultivation -Introduce advanced technology to use grey water in production -Use the livestock tax as an incentive for sustainable pasture use قراءة القليل

Regional level National Dialogue in Food System had three main focuses which explored the Action Tracks of the Summit. To adapt into the local context, the action tracks were combined into three thematic area as follows: 1)Thematic area 1: Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for the population and promote sustainable consumption; 2) Thematic area 2: Advance equitable livelihoods and wealth distribution; 3) Thematic area 3: Boosting nature-positive production and building resilience to vulnerability, shock and stress Each thematic are was discussed in the separate breakout rooms with repr... قراءة المزيدesentation from different background actors. The discussion focus was on the challenges aced in each thematic area, solutions that participants are proposing to tackle the issue in the medium (5 years) and in the long term (in 10 and above years). Major focus was on the solutions specific to the region, their area and nature positive solutions that could be incorporated into the current policy documents for better food systems in the future. قراءة القليل

The Urban or Municipal area has highly centralized market. There is a deepening of income difference within the population and high concerning environmental pollution and poor living conditions. Food safety is one of the big issues in the food systems. In terms of the main challenges faced the regions in Mongolia faced similar issues such as: Weak policy and legal environment of the food systems; food safety standards are not fully met; the big difference in the consumption of diverse food between the rural and urban population; poorly develop education and information system regarding the hea... قراءة المزيدlthy and diverse food in schools; poor capacity of human resource working in the nutrition and food sciences; policy incoherence in the sector; lack of investment opportunities for running a food business in the rural areas; small markets and poor infrastructure; lack of detailed information on food security indicators for low-income and rural population; women's employment opportunities are limited by age, occupation and experience; herder continuity is being lost and the number of young herders is declining due to the fast urbanization; weak raw material supply chain and system. قراءة القليل

Outcomes from the thematic area I. Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for the population and promote sustainable consumption: -To develop and ensure the food policy and legal environment of the food systems -To introduce and implement international quality standards at all stages of the value chain -Reduce dependency on imports of key food items and increase food accessibility for urban and rural population -To improve the coherence of policy and planning in the food systems -Establish and develop smart/digital food tracking system technologies -To improve the capacity and management of... قراءة المزيد the specialists and professional nutritionists working in the hospitals, schools and kindergartens -To conduct more awareness raising and improve public knowledge and attitudes regarding the healthy diets. -Support the development of local food waster recycling and by-products processing plants at the regional level; -To develop and introduce a focused school program on nutrition, diet and food waste in the regional primary and middle schools; -There is a need to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the consumption, hygiene and quality control of domestic and imported products, and organize work to promote rational use; -To conduct and organize awareness raising on the food waste recycling and reusing amongst the general public; -To improve the education program about the food, diet habits and nutrition from young age; -To improve the control mechanisms in antibiotics residuals in meat and milk and pest residual in vegetables. In order to implement these actions multi-stakeholder participation is needed. From farmers to the policy makers all actors along the food value chain need to have the same level of commitment in order to start transforming the food systems. قراءة القليل

Regional level National Dialogue in Food System had three main focuses which explored the Action Tracks of the Summit. To adapt into the local context, the action tracks were combined into three thematic area as follows: 1)Thematic area 1: Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for the population and promote sustainable consumption; 2) Thematic area 2: Advance equitable livelihoods and wealth distribution; 3) Thematic area 3: Boosting nature-positive production and building resilience to vulnerability, shock and stress Each thematic are was discussed in the separate breakout rooms with repr... قراءة المزيدesentation from different background actors. The discussion focus was on the challenges aced in each thematic area, solutions that participants are proposing to tackle the issue in the medium (5 years) and in the long term (in 10 and above years). Major focus was on the solutions specific to the region, their area and nature positive solutions that could be incorporated into the current policy documents for better food systems in the future. قراءة القليل

There are few Gobi Region specific aspects that were mentioned during the dialogue: The gobi region has developed mining sector but high scarcity of water resources. The desertification is a high rising issue in the region. In terms of the main challenges faced the regions in Mongolia faced similar issues such as: Weak policy and legal environment of the food systems; food safety standards are not fully met; the big difference in the consumption of diverse food between the rural and urban population; poorly develop education and information system regarding the healthy and diverse food in scho... قراءة المزيدols; poor capacity of human resource working in the nutrition and food sciences; policy incoherence in the sector; lack of investment opportunities for running a food business in the rural areas; small markets and poor infrastructure; lack of detailed information on food security indicators for low-income and rural population; women's employment opportunities are limited by age, occupation and experience; herder continuity is being lost and the number of young herders is declining due to the fast urbanization; weak raw material supply chain and system. قراءة القليل

Outcomes from the thematic area I. Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for the population and promote sustainable consumption: -To develop and ensure the food policy and legal environment of the food systems -To introduce and implement international quality standards at all stages of the value chain -Reduce dependency on imports of key food items and increase food accessibility for urban and rural population -To improve the coherence of policy and planning in the food systems -Establish and develop smart/digital food tracking system technologies -To improve the capacity and management of... قراءة المزيد the specialists and professional nutritionists working in the hospitals, schools and kindergartens -To conduct more awareness raising and improve public knowledge and attitudes regarding the healthy diets. -Support the development of local food waster recycling and by-products processing plants at the regional level; -To develop and introduce a focused school program on nutrition, diet and food waste in the regional primary and middle schools; -There is a need to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the consumption, hygiene and quality control of domestic and imported products, and organize work to promote rational use; -To conduct and organize awareness raising on the food waste recycling and reusing amongst the general public; -To improve the education program about the food, diet habits and nutrition from young age; -To improve the control mechanisms in antibiotics residuals in meat and milk and pest residual in vegetables. In order to implement these actions multi-stakeholder participation is needed. From farmers to the policy makers all actors along the food value chain need to have the same level of commitment in order to start transforming the food systems. قراءة القليل

Outcomes from the thematic area II. Advance equitable livelihoods and Value Distribution -Support the development of value-chain added products and regional cluster business models for livestock raw materials and products; -To create favorable business environment for food businesses and producers; -Create favorable environment to support innovation activities aimed at improving long-term business efficiency and competitiveness; -To commercialize live animals, animal origin raw materials, by-products and create economic value; -To increase the private sector investment; -To analyze and improve... قراءة المزيد the policies of welfare and industrialization; -To organize systematically capacity building trainings focusing on marketing, production technologies, investment project proposal writing, business planning etc. To tackle the existing barriers to increase employment and improve the livelihoods of women, youth and vulnerable groups following actions are proposed: -To Improve the number and availability of kindergartens and childcare services, and increase women's employment opportunities; -Develop and implement a special education program/curriculum to train young herders -Implement investment policy to support household production and business -Support youth employment through soft loans and investment policies -To support co-operative production and business -Implement a training program for women entrepreneurs or women led businesses -Provide financial support to vulnerable groups in the food system, support them to start production and develop a sales network; -Implement effective welfare policies for vulnerable groups and combine welfare and employment policies -Provide vocational training to young people in accordance with their needs قراءة القليل

Within the Thematic area III. Boost nature-positive production and build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stress following actions are proposed: -To support the production of advanced technology based, export oriented, value-added products; -Develop a comprehensive logistics network for agricultural food products and improve the operation of the Agriculture Stock Exchange; -To develop the regional cluster models for agriculture food processing plants; -Implement a policy to train food technology specialists abroad; -Improving the business environment for local livestock, agriculture a... قراءة المزيدnd SMEs -To support and develop domestic production of imported ingredients/raw materials required for the processing of agricultural food products -To establish meat, milk and vegetable processing plants based on sound analytical research -To improve the education program/curriculum of the TVET, Colleges and Universities in the food sector programs; -To create a legal environment for introducing an ecosystem service payment mechanisms which favors the environmentally friendly agriculture production; -Develop and implement a special program which encourages re-using water from snow, rain in the agriculture; -To introduce innovative processing technologies in the meat factories and develop brand products -To improve the livestock breed and support intensive farming -To evaluate the current government support and subsidy programs for agriculture sector and update based on sound analysis -Introduce and localize the hydroponic technology in forage cultivation -Introduce advanced technology to use grey water in production -Use the livestock tax as an incentive for sustainable pasture use قراءة القليل