Independiente Diálogo
Enfoque geográfico:
Portugal
Discussion topic outcome
Regarding the discussion topic on sustainable diets and national biodiversity, the following actions were concluded as being necessary: - Raise consumer awareness about buying in local markets and/or participating in producer-consumer or consumer-only cooperatives, to be able to gain access to sustainable food more cheaply (favoring value chains without intermediaries). - Make the population aware of the different levels of self-sufficiency according to the type of food. - Facilitate the process of selling native seeds by ending sales limitations, simplifying procurement requirements, and mult
... Leer másiplying germplasm banks throughout the country. - Monitoring of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by different actors, demanding that financial incentives be better adapted to the national context, favoring marginal areas (growing evidence of greater environmental relevance), effectively based on results, and with greater supervision to encourage farmers to adopt more positive practices for biodiversity, rewarding them accordingly. - CAP incentives should take negative externalities more into account (currently only very timidly considered in cross-compliance rules) in order to allow a reduction in subsidies for non sustainably produced food, bringing prices more into balance with those that are sustainable, and therefore making them more affordable. - Extend traceability to all foods to know their origin and differentiate them according to production method. - Raise awareness of the food chain (from producer to consumer) about how it works to empower action on how income is distributed along the chain, especially at the distribution level. - Decentralize distribution - replicate the practice of imposing a limit on the number of food retail stores in a municipality, imposing minimum sustainable food purchase quotas for each retailer. - Deconstruct the price/nutrient ratio of food - more sustainably produced food is generally more nutritious. The higher price of these foods is offset by their higher nutritional content. - Reformulation of benchmarks for sustainable production methods (e.g. organic farming is no guarantee of greater biodiversity), involving all relevant stakeholders in this reformulation (prevents us from continually developing proxy approaches that do not safeguard biodiversity). - Development of new regulations that promote good environmental practices or penalize bad ones(e.g., ban on incorrect burning). - Empower rural areas more in logistical support for food processing - insufficient, compared to urban areas. Leer menos
Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Women & Youth Empowerment