Official Dialogue Feedback to the United Nations 2021 Food Systems SummitLast updated: Friday, April 16, 2021 at 15:05 UTC Download PDFType of DialogueIndependentConvened byBharat Krishak Samaj and Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS)Date/time From: Friday, January 29, 2021 at 05:30 UTC To: Friday, January 29, 2021 at 07:30 UTCGeographical focusIndiaFormatOnlinePlease review the details below for registration information if available or contact the Convenor if you would like to attend.DescriptionThe UN Food Systems Summit has called for participation from diverse stakeholders in making the transition towards robust, equitable and sustainable food systems. The Food Systems Dialogues are an opportunity to bring the voices and perspectives of diverse and often underrepresented food systems actors into the Summit process.As organizations that advocate for and work towards the interests of farmers and producers, we are organising an Independent Dialogue that would represent the farmers’ stakes in our food systems. In India, while there are separate policies on agriculture, food security and nutrition, the food systems approach is lacking. The problems of unsustainable production, producer’s livelihoods, consumer welfare and the environment are often seen at odds with one another. However, these issues intersect for the farmer, who is both a producer and a consumer, and depends on the environment for his/her livelihood. Keeping this in mind, the focus of our dialogue would be ‘Building synergies between seemingly competing interests of production, consumption, livelihoods and the ecosystem’, in the Indian context. Image credit: Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS)
