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The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) plans to further enhance skilled human resources in Cambodia with the aim to strengthen the competitiveness of post-harvest agribusinesses with a focus on fisheries. UNIDO Chief Technical Advisor component of the so-called CAPFISH (Cambodia programme for sustainable and inclusive growth in the fisheries sector), Shetty Seetharama Thombathu said that UNIDO is establishing Food Technology, Research and Innovation Platform bringing together academia, government and private sector to support research and innovation for value addition o... Leer másf agro-producers. The platform will strengthen the competitiveness of post-harvest agribusinesses, especially fisheries. With a strong commitment and sustainability plan, such a platform could be an excellent mechanism for addressing food safety issues in the country. “With strong commitment and sustainability plan, such platform could be an excellent joined mechanism for addressing food safety issues in the country,” said Shetty when marking the Third World Food Safety Day themed Fostering Food Safety Through Partnership yesterday. To mark the event, a panel of the scientific community, food safety regulators and private sector was set up to explore possible future roles and contributions of the partnership between academia, government and private sector to address the challenges of food safety in a holistic manner for meaningful solutions in Cambodia. Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) Deputy Director General, Thavarith Chunhieng said ITC was ready and keen to collaborate by bringing its expertise and knowledge to solve societal challenges in food safety and beyond. The food system is part of poverty reduction and right now we have Covid-19 which is affecting production. Fisheries Post-Harvest Technologies department director, Chamnan Chhou said the implementation of food quality control is important as unfortunately, street food does not meet this standard as it is of poor quality due to dust, pollution and an unhygienic environment. Science Technology & Innovation department director, Sokny Ly said most of the food manufacturers are from the small and medium industry and they do not provide data to regulate their food production and that poses a big challenge. She said there is a need to inspect these premises to ensure they follow the food quality standards. Ministry of Economy representative, Lao Poliveth said that this is the first time Cambodia participated in the online discussion and many issues were raised that could help strengthen the economic food development and some areas that will benefit the producers and consumers in terms of food safety and quality. Camilla Lombard, Deputy Head of Cooperation for the EU Delegation to Cambodia, said the EU was committed to supporting Cambodia’s efforts to improving food safety and production. Further support to food safety in particular, and sustainable food systems in general, is envisaged under the next development cooperation programme between the EU and Cambodia for the period 2021-2027 which is currently being designed. Leer menos

Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged strengthening the food safety and quality control system in Cambodia to enable healthy diets which he said are vital to human capital development. He made this call to mark the 7th National Nutrition Day, which falls on November 6 each year. The Prime Minister also called on the food sector to change how they process food and do business and enable people to maintain healthy diets in the wake of food chain disruptions caused by Covid-19 and severe flooding. The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) set up an online panel of the scientific community, fo... Leer másod safety regulators and the private sector under the theme “Fostering Food Safety through Partnership” to mark the 3rd World Food Safety Day on June 7. The discussion was part of a three-week-long campaign designed to raise awareness of food safety issues in Cambodia and seek areas for future intervention by various partners and the government. The panel discussion explored possible future roles and partnerships between academia, government and the private sector to address the challenges of food safety in a holistic manner for solutions in Cambodia. Food safety is a shared responsibility and that building strong partnerships with a robust mechanism across academia and the public and private sectors is essential. The partnership will go a long way in ensuring the health and wellbeing of all people. The panel agreed that sharing experiences, understanding the problems and identifying solutions, and building partnerships are the best options to promote innovation in the food sector and support the private sector. Equally important, the panel agreed that mobilising necessary resources to sustain such partnership is key to a long-term solution. Leer menos

In this dialogue, four relavant ministries gathered to discuss how to implement the Korea’s National Food Plans developed by the Presidential Committee and relavant ministries this February. The plan had been discussed since July 2019 and aimed to secure sustainability of agriculture and fisheries through harmonizing economy, society and environment.

Participants rechecked the details of the National Food Plan and agreed that cooperation among the relevant ministries was essential to address the issues such as food & nutritional education and food waste, in particular. It was acknowledged that continuous consultation between ministries was an achievement in itself on matters of disagreement between ministries or unconfirmed sources of finance. MAFRA said it would develop MAFRA’s National Food Plan which contains implementation of the existing National Food Plan, and requested the cooperation of other ministries in the process. In add... Leer másition, related ministries agreed to participate in the next National Dialogues hosted by MAFRA and KREI. Leer menos

Track 3: Boost Nature-Positive Production Actions urgently needed • Promotion of Climate Smart Agriculture practices • Adoption of technological solutions for optimum food production and protection of the ecosystem. • Change from traditional animal production practices to modern practices. • Education of the youths and sensitization of the masses on the essence of agriculture. • Active participation of Extension Services (Private and/or Public). • Governments and Stakeholders awareness, inclusion and participation about the identified problems and proposed solutions. What contribut... Leer másion will organization make? • Advocacy and sensitization of the youth and the masses on their influence on nature. • Formation of a coalition of Stakeholders in the Food System to oversee actualization of the highlighted solutions of the dialogue. • Movement or formation of government policies that synergize with the core implementation of the proposed actions. How will it be possible to tell if these actions are being successful? • To measure the success of the above actions, the indicators below could signal the progress; • Optimum crop yield by farmers which indicates achievement of a good ecosystem. • Increase in food accessibility, quality and affordability through friendly market price. • Reduction in food importation as a result of sustainable food sufficiency in the country. • Youth awareness and interests in working to make a safe ecosystem and achieve Food Security. • Efficient data management should be in place for monitoring and evaluation. Leer menos

4: Advanced Equitable Livelihoods and Value Distribution Actions urgently needed • Tackling poverty from a multidimensional perspective among the vulnerable populations • Gender/ Women perspective. It is no doubt that women are deprived of their rights to land ownership and other sources of livelihood. • Infrastructural development as a mean of incentivizing young people into faming and creating a sustainable source of livelihood. • Create awareness to local farmers on how important they are and the value they contribute to the economy. • Teaching farmers to understand the marketing ... Leer másskills that would improve their profitability. • Leveraging the power of relations such as social network. Beyond faming, there is need for mentorship process that ensures that these young. • Mindset change: Most young people have low interest in agricultural activities. • The government and its relevant agencies should improve their orientation programmers’ through seminars, conferences. • Flexible funding and credit facilities should be in place to encourage young people. • Introduce programs/engagements to catch them young which are targeted to adolescents and teenagers. • Mechanized faming should be encouraged through governments’ intervention programs. • Policies that encourage free trade zones for exporting agricultural products and produce should be setup by the Government. • Create agricultural parks and processing hubs • Government and relevant agencies should provide research and development R &D Centers across the states. • Agricultural policies should be incentivized as a way of encouraging and boosting young people interests in farming activities. • Government should provide an enabling environment for farmers in both rural and urban areas. • Security for the farmers and their produce • Urban farming through hydroponics and greenhouse technologies should be institutionalized Cross-Cutting • Regular town hall and stakeholder engagement with the government, private sector, Donors and actual farmers represented by cooperative heads across all value chain including crop, dairy, livestock etc. Should be conducted. • These town hall meetings should help support the creation of policies, laws, and targeted innovative agro programs/initiatives. • Communication should be prioritized providing status reports to various stakeholders as wins are achieved and challenges are encountered and addressed. What contributions will our organizations make? • NGOs can support with proving decentralized training and project monitoring and evaluation across the agricultural allied value chain. How will it be possible to tell if these actions are being successful? • Success would be through strong monitoring and evaluation of the purpose indicators pre-identified for the projects • Regular monthly, quarterly, biannual and annual reporting would be conducted to ensure on site activities are effectively documented. Leer menos

Track 5: Build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks, and stress Actions urgently needed • Give access to lands to farmers and young people who know the technical know-how • Create a level ground for government, policy formulator and farmers to ensure policy formulation. • Forming a Food Value Chain Action Group consisting of smallholder farmers, transporters, processors and consumer • Adopting the Agroecology approach to strengthen the food system and improve biodiversity to provide more employment • Develop resilience food through breeding to help adapt to the changing climatic tre... Leer másnds and the shocks from post-COVID19 • Develop training management plans for farmers to give them hands-on technological skills to improve • Create a unified system of food planting, crop production in all state. • Create a flexible method on yield for farmers per hectare • Give equal focus for agricultural activities to the inter-lands and not restrict agricultural productivity to specific regions • Invest in Agricultural research to improve the quality of food. • Create a reliable source to transit produce from farms to market. • Ensure the regulation of quality seeds, good post-harvest handling and the use of green pest control methods • Create a channel that can improve access to information, particularly for farmers Cross-Cutting • To improve the technical know-how of farmers and access to information and creating a Youth-centered Social Medium group to foster more action, knowledge and inclusion. • Create a more balanced approach between crop farmers and herdsmen to reduce crisis and accessibility of food • Creating more avenues to improve livestock production • Encourage more scaling particular at rural level through availability of funds and its accessibility What contributions will our organizations make? • Deploy the suitable approaches to improving communications among farmers, leveraging indigenous languages • Deploy training and vocational skills to farmers quarterly to help build more resilience • Create more innovative approaches to farming, adopting the Stover approach • Push forward policies to help create a unified method of producing produces to increase quality and quantity • Adopt the floating farm and the use of the breeding approach. • Ensure inclusion of farmers in decision-making and project formulation where applicable. How will it be possible to tell if these actions are being successful? • When there is an increase in food availability • More employment among farmers • More informed farmers • More access to land for young people • Availability of resilience crops • Informed policies that can help reduce inequality Leer menos

• Participants strongly believe that in Nigeria, we need to first ensure food security before we discuss healthy and sustainable food consumption. By creating awareness, we can let people understand that we can achieve both at the same time. • Some participants also suggested that the government support existing farmers rather than new entrants into agribusinesses. However, others agreed that the government can do both simultaneously, but they must have strong monitoring and evaluation systems to ensure results. • To ensure food accessibility and price stability, the government should bu... Leer másy directly from the farmers not off-takers. • Poverty: Due to poverty, young people are unable to access healthy and nutritious foods. • Youths are not willing to go into agriculture because modern tools that would ease work are not available. So, agriculture is seen as a punishment rather than a legitimate career or source of living. • Failure of the government to revitalize the farm settlement system where young people can be empowered to start on their own with the produce collected, branded either for local use or export. • Unavailability of land. Where land is available, it is inaccessible to the young people. There is also the issue of the Land Use Act. • Young people see Agriculture as an old-people thing because of various reasons such as the poor use of technology as compared to the western world where machines are employed in almost all agricultural process; Poor extension services; near zero quality check, value addition has been neglected. • The government has no clear—cut policy aimed at attracting young people into agriculture. • Insecurity: The increasing spate of insecurity in the country is enough reason to scare anybody from the farm. No young person would like to go to the farm only to be abducted or killed. The government needs to address the issue of security more seriously. • The high cost of technology for agriculture, research etc • Poor pricing pattern is a huge source of discouragement to young people who want to take up agriculture. • Bureaucratic bottlenecks, government officials seeking bribe before your application is treated etc. • Lack of enabling environment: Poor road facilities linking farmers to their target market, poor storage facilities thereby leading to waste, high cost of fertilizers and other farm inputs. Leer menos

The major focus of the exploratory dialogue by Youth Groups in Food and Nutrition challenges in Nigeria is to identify challenges and opportunities for the participation of youths in the Food System and deliberate on what a food system that includes and empowers youths would look like. The focus also includes the identification of what needs to be done for youth’s roles and contributions to be recognized and valued, for young people to be able to exercise control over resources and assets for effective participation in the food systems and have a voice in key processes, and for institutions ... Leer másto be supportive of youths. Because of the importance of youth in the food systems, there was a felt need to galvanize inputs of youths into Nigeria’s submission to the Global Food System Summit. Youths are actively involved in food systems in a range of roles from production and processing to retailing and consumption. Youths cultivate crops, tend livestock, work in agribusinesses and food retailing, and much more. However, their socio-economic contributions and entrepreneurial potential often remain unrecognized and untapped. Prevailing socio-cultural norms commonly limit youth’s ability to exercise power and autonomous decision-making; therefore often continue to be disadvantaged in access to productive resources, innovative technologies, market information, financial services, education, and training and thereby not making agriculture attractive for youths. Addressing these challenges in food systems means that youths participate and benefit from agricultural markets and rural economies to better sustain and improve their livelihoods, while preserving the natural resource base and adapting to climate change. Other vulnerabilities including ethnicity, age, and poverty further impact how young people engage in food systems. For instance, young person seeking to become entrepreneurs can face multiple constraints based on age, and the nature of work in the informal sector. Leer menos

 Addressing the barriers faced by youths within the food systems will not only increase youth participation in the Food system but will also address issues of unemployment of youths, improve food security, and enhance sustainability.  Improving/facilitating youth’s involvement in the food system has the potential to reduce the endemic rural poverty among youths as well as reducing rural -urban migration.  Poor handling of relationships within the food system can result in socio-economic crisis that threatens education, health, human rights, as well as peace and security.  Food in... Leer mássecurity is likely to increase if challenges faced by youths within the food system are not identified and addressed.  Youths are not a homogenous group; it is therefore very important to look at the needs of youths from diverse angles – producers, consumers, and entrepreneurs  Coordination of interventions aimed at improving the participation of youths in the food system is very important – MDAs, other stakeholders to the community level.  Some strategic and immediate steps to be taken suggested during the dialogue include: - Integrating youths in decision making at all levels – very important so that well intended policies may not achieve their aim. - Promoting household food production among both rural and urban youth - Providing strong support for land clearing and promoting mechanisation of agriculture by Government and private sector players. - Strengthening the Agricultural Extension Services for knowledge transfer, guidance, and support through the entire food system. - Promoting youth’s groups as aggregators to guarantee stability of food prices. - Facilitating access of youths to improved packaging materials for preservation; and to solar technology for drying. - Promoting small-scale animal husbandry for household access to animal source foods and for income generation - Promoting the rational use of fertilizers and agrochemicals by farmers and food traders and promoting organic farming. - Encouraging local production of agricultural implements and processing machines. - Facilitating the formation of youth cooperative societies for easy access to cheap credit and inputs, as well as equipment for processing - Building relevant infrastructure, and road networks to improve transportation to markets, and prevent spoilage and wastage. - Designing nutrition education targeted at communities and schools, empowering community members and school children to make healthy food choices and highlight the dangers of unhealthy diet. - Regulating advertisement and marketing of unhealthy foods. - Raising children as change ambassadors through nutrition education embedded in school curriculum for safe, healthy, and sustainable food consumption. - Identifying and scaling up evidence-based interventions that target reduction of food wastage e.g., the promotion of micro-agro processing enterprises focused on women participation. - Promoting proper water conservation and water harvesting techniques and recycling - Formulating ‘Safe seeds’ Policies promote cultivation of crops that are resistant to drought and are early maturing. - Creating awareness on the importance of equal opportunities for all including the youths in the food system. - Setting up a system to fast-track registration of food products and eliminate barriers and frustration in registering products with the regulatory agencies - NAFDAC, SON - Facilitating the inclusion of youth in decision making positions in associations. - Facilitating market access for youths, including access to market information, direct and strong linkages with transporters to encourage them more. - Identifying locally appropriate/sustainable storage and packaging solutions to extend shelf-life of agricultural products - Establishing micro-processing hubs to facilitate processing of highly perishable foods and reduce seasonal price shocks - Diversifying livelihood sources for youths along the food system - Facilitating increased availability of insurance products, farmer subscriptions for insurance, and regulation of insurance practice so that claims are addressed promptly. - Improving security of communities and youths, and of transportation systems for food, e.g., strengthening of local vigilante groups so that they provide first-line defence; assigning farmlands to youths in easy to reach, central locations; early warning systems and peace building skills for all communities - Developing and expanding platforms for reaching youths with information, including market and weather information, and information about how to register processed products and expand business. Leer menos

Track 1: Access to safe & Nutritious Food for All Action urgently needed • Successful women in agriculture can be invited to dialogues such as this to encourage other females willing to venture into agriculture. • Women have a greater opportunity in the value chain and value addition space. • Women are creative and know more about aesthetics. • The government can introduce some form of subsidy that would make inputs such as fertilizers, improved seedlings, and herbicides cheaper for young people. • Industrialization: Government can get the equipment; give it to young person’s a... Leer mást affordable price. • There should be a more determined drive run by public/private investors to provide proper education and training. • Attention should also be paid to internships as conventional education may not be the only way to learn agriculture. • Agricultural extension workers can help teach the farmers how to package food for onward transportation from the farm to the market. • The quality control unit of the need to be up and doing to ensure that foods taken to the market are safe for consumption. • Creating a unified entry point into the market. Cross-Cutting All the issues above have to do with poverty and sensitization. More young people need to be educated on the need for them to be involved in agriculture. When this is out in place, the government must also ensure that youths are given the enabling environment to be in agriculture. There must be a collective effort from the government, young people, CSOs, the private sector, and so on. What contribution will organizations make? • We need to be resilient and not give up despite the challenges in the sector. • We can serve as advisers to the government as it regards to bring more young people into agriculture. • We need some form of value reorientation so that they can focus on feeding the nation and making the environment better rather than just making money. • We have to be creative. Government obstacles should not be a limitation. There is a solution in every challenge. • Our role in ensuring food nutrition security starts with getting them involved in policy and decision-making process as it relates to agricultural processes and its value chain. How will it be possible to tell if actions are being successful? When these solutions are put in place, there will be a visible and positive shift in the rate and number of youths who get involved in agriculture. However, there must be sustainability and accountability. We need to ensure that the policies created or amended are enforced and that the government is acting on their commitments regarding young people and food/nutrition security. Leer menos

Track 2: Shift to Sustainable Consumption Patterns Actions urgently needed • The government must charge organisations like the National Orientation Agency to develop awareness campaigns on healthy and sustainable food consumption. • Private sector and individuals must leverage on social media to disseminate information. This will include engaging celebrities and influencers to support the campaign. • Extension workers need to train farmers on safe and healthy production methods. • The government should use incentives such as price regulation to increase the accessibility to healthy foo... Leer másds. • Farmers need to adopt sustainable and healthy agricultural practices to ensure food safety. • We must promote the adoption of home gardening, backyard farming and urban farming to increase the access and availability of vegetables, legumes and fruits. • Government must include nutrition in schools curriculum as well as introduce and support school gardens to increase access to nutritious. • The government must ensure regulatory agencies such as NAFDAC monitor the food processing units as well as the open markets to ensure the safety of foods. • There must also be tighter regulations on imported foods to ensure that they uphold best international food safety standards. • There must be tighter regulations on the use of agrochemicals and hormonal drugs on farms. • The private sector must be incentivized with policies that allow them collect and process foods from hot spots such as farm gate and markets. • There is an urgent need to build road/train network and improve logistics to ensure that food is not wasted along the value chain. • The youth and private sector should leverage on technologies to solve the food waste problem. Cross cutting • There is a need for government and private sectors to build agric hubs to enable state have access to food equally. • There is a need to increase finance and investments in the agriculture sector How will it be possible to tell if the actions are successful? • Increased demand for healthy foods such as vegetables, legumes, nuts and foods rich in fibre. • Lower post-harvest losses across the country. • Lower incidences of food poisoning because of poor processing and preservation techniques. • Increased awareness on safe and sustainable foods. • Increased access to safe and nutritious foods among school pupils. What contribution will our organization make? • Youth present at the dialogue have volunteered to form a coalition to champion Action Track 2. • The group also agreed on promoting Hackathons to allow the deployment of technology to solve the issues that were raised. • Promote school and home gardens • Promote diversity in our food choices. Leer menos

Group 2: Shift to Healthy and Sustainable Consumption Patterns Actions urgently needed • Make policies that empower women and give them access to landholding for farming to improve food production. • Address gender stereotypes and cultural practices that put women in the food value chain at a disadvantage through high-level advocacies and community sensitization. • Give women agency and decision-making power at all levels of the food value chain. • Improve the women’s economic capacity for food production, processing, distribution, and consumption by providing them with access to loa... Leer másns without collaterals and forming them into groups e.g., cooperative societies to give them a stronger voice. • Provide access to production knowledge, technology, and resources to upscale their contribution to the food system • Build relevant infrastructures, road networks to shorten supply distance in order to aid food logistics management and avoid spoilage and wastage. • Address insecurity which threatens women involved in farming • Design nutrition education targeted at communities and schools, empowering community members and school children to make health food choices and highlight the dangers of unhealthy diet. • Raise the profile of locally available healthy food in packaging and marketing to make them more desirable choices for children. • Regulate advertisement and marketing of unhealthy food (sugary beverages, ultra-processed food) through increasing tax/tariffs. • Address food preservation and storage challenges encountered by women who have no access to adequate knowledge of the right chemical to use and space for storage. • Introduce women to mixed cropping • Design strategic behavior change communication targeted at addressing barriers to healthy food consumption, attitudinal barriers, cultural barriers, etc. • Raise children as change ambassadors through nutrition education embedded in school curriculum for sustainable food consumption. • Use windows of opportunities to address consumer behavior – healthy food choices for pregnant women, breast feeding for children 0 – 6month children, complementary feeding for 6-23month children, children under-five, school-aged children, and adolescents. • Address malnutrition in children by encouraging early introduction of children to locally available and affordable healthy meals. • Return to traditional foods, which are healthy and locally available and affordable but have been abandoned due to globalization and changing food patterns. • Identify and scale up evidence-based interventions that are targeting reduction of food wastage e.g., the promotion of micro-agro processing enterprises focused on women participation in Adamawa and Borno states under the Feed the Future Nigeria integrated agricultural activities. Who should take the actions? • Continue to mobilize women and empower women at the grassroots level to participate in the food system. Ways in which progress could be assessed • Improving access to landholding by women • Increasing decision-making power seeded to women • Increasing and stronger contribution of women in food production, storage, processing, distribution, and consumption. • Increasing capacity of women and children to make healthy food choices Leer menos

Group 3: Boosting nature-positive food system Actions urgently needed • Soil Testing and the use of improved seeds, improved processing especially on fruit and vegetables that is available and affordable. • Use of improved seeds to boost vertical agriculture could be adopted where access to land is an issue. • Plant tree and use of organic manure, Avoid the use of harmful chemicals • Improving our farming system and acquiring more knowledge on agriculture and extending to the rural women • Reducing overuse of land through crop rotation, less use of chemical fertilizers • Use of org... Leer másanic manure, total stoppage of bush burning • Avoiding the use of growth promoters and antibiotics on plants animals and birds (poultry) • Planting leguminous crops to the soil, proper water conservation and water harvesting techniques and recycling • Education and awareness and training of farmers on modern agriculture. • Reduce the energy use. • Safe seeds Policies, cultivating crops that is resistance to drought and planting early maturing seeds. Who should take the actions? • Encouraging of waste residue to transform into cooking energy (Charcoal) instead of cutting down trees for cooking energy. • one of the reforms can be processing machines • Community Farmer forums sessions to encourage shared learning through women and youth farmers initiative consultative meetings • Access for women and youth to modern technology. • Collaborating with INGOs NGOs Government, ADPs on farmer’s pre- season capacity building in states involvement all stakeholders. Ways in which progress could be assessed • Deliberate monitoring • Data collection, analysis and well-documented. • Glaring Sustainable programs demonstrated in the communities. • When value can be seen in the use of organic and inorganic fertilizer for improved food yield • Natural ecosystem and Biodiversity restored with less pollution of land and water in our communities. • More and improved food production despite climate change. Leer menos

Group 4: Advance equitable livelihoods and value distribution Actions urgently needed • Identify women in the food system with their various strength, diversity, areas of indulgence, areas of needs, limitations etc and group them into different sectors or sections • Produce a desegregated data of women in different sections of the food system chain • Outline achievable, short, medium, and sectional objectives to improving the impact of women in the food system • Orientate these women and their male counterpart using the community-based approach on the important of all inclusive and equ... Leer másal opportunities for all including the women in the food system. • Ensure that all women trained, and their capacity and skills developed be supported with a starter (which could be financial or giving farm or processing equipment) • Create synergy among stakeholders in the food system and boost coordination to align their interventions to the community needs in agriculture with special attention to the vulnerable such as the women • Fast-track registration and standardization of Agro- processing products and eliminate most of the barriers and frustration in registering in the regulatory agencies e.g., NAFDAC, SON • Strengthen the women in agricultural societies, cooperation, associations, and communities to give them a voice and resources needed to run the association. • Ensure women are allotted certain positions in decision making bodies, such as the formation of community structures, marketing boards, processing, transportation etc • Ensure that all interventions in agricultural related programs, women are effectively involved and consulted before, during and after implementation. • Increase women registration in association, societies or cooperative bodies in the food system Who should take the actions? • To collaborating with higher institution like college science and technology to produce cost effective simple improved farm tools and Agro processing tools for more output in agriculture. These tools are given to women through loans or at subsidized price. • To create more access to loans for women with flexible payment plans • To strengthen already existing financial scheme such as village savings scheme, rural farmers savings scheme through accountability. Financial appropriations • To ensure functional market information system which indigenously localized to the include all women including those with language barriers • NGO’s should implement women tailored interventions   Ways in which progress could be assessed • Through appropriate disaggregated data for women in various section of the food system chain • Through continuous monitoring of the data base by tracking the number of women being identified in the food system • Tracking the number of women that register in association, societies or cooperatives in the food system chain • Through using set objectives evaluating if the objectives are met • Regular meetings of women in various sector of the food chain are held in a year Leer menos

5: Economic, social, and ecological resilience is built for women, as participators in the food system and consumers from the food system Actions urgently needed for: Economic resilience: • Support for small ruminant production, including creating access to vaccinations • Facilitate increased market access for women, including access to market information, direct and strong linkages with transporters, and creating fixed physical market spaces and schedules so women do not resort to mobile markets that are unsustainable and offer poor prices • Establish micro-processing hubs to facilitate... Leer más processing of highly perishable foods and reduce seasonal price shocks • Improve food production, including expanded access to land and other assets, green and sustainable mechanization, and other production inputs • Identify locally appropriate/sustainable storage and packaging solutions to increase shelf-life • Establishment of contractual agreements that facilitate access to commodities for local industry. Large companies often go to rural areas to offer higher prices and mop-up supply • Increase access to commercial loans, including by reducing interest rates to lower single digits • Increased organization of women into groups/cooperatives and facilitate access to services and assets, including establishment of savings and loans schemes • Diversify livelihood sources along food value chains, as opposed to primary production livelihoods only Social resilience: • Strengthen women groups/cooperatives and increase group absorptive capacity Ecological resilience: • Expanded sharing of information about weather patterns which is collated by Nigerian Meteorological Agency and facilitating access to varieties suited to weather patterns per time. Weather information can be disseminated through National Youth Service Corps • Rainwater harvesting in parts of the country where such systems are underutilized, to reduce flooding in rainy season and increase availability of water for dry season irrigation • Increasing production diversity to strengthen environment (and economic resilience) • Increased availability of insurance products, farmer subscriptions for insurance, and regulation of insurance company practices (so that claims are responsibly addressed) Cross-cutting: • Critically and urgently improve physical security of communities and women, and security of transportation systems for food. Actions should include strengthening (training and arming) of local vigilante groups so that they provide first-line defense; assigning farmlands to women in easy to reach, central locations; early warning systems and peace building skills for all communities • Develop and expand platforms for reaching women with information, including market and weather information, but also information about how to register processed products and expand business, information about available groups/cooperatives and how to join Who should take the actions? • Local agricultural and other research institutions to develop contextually appropriate solutions to challenges women face as participants (producers and processors) in the food system Ways in which progress could be assessed • Increased women’s assets and access to inputs • Existence of platforms for early warning Leer menos

D) Areas of divergence Please share the areas of divergence that emerged during your Dialogue. An area of divergence is an issue where participants held diverse views, different opinions and/or opposing positions. For example, this might be related to a) strengths and vulnerabilities within food systems, b) areas that need further exploration, c) practices that are needed for food system sustainability, d) stakeholders whose interests should be prioritized. Please describe all of the areas of divergence in under 800 words. Note: Please do not attribute any views to named individuals 1. Some be... Leer máslieved that women should be organized into groups, e.g., cooperatives for stronger participation while others felt that most women in farming are already formed into producer groups, cooperatives, and associations in many communities, the challenge is in most cases is access to production knowledge, technology, and resources. 2. Apparent differing perspectives about actions to prioritize. Participants reached consensus that improving security should be paramount. Fear for safety and/or life has a debilitating influence on any other action to improve resilience. 3. Review of Government policies on improved yield 4. Use of Agrochemicals and its implication on human health 5. Price regulatory system should not only be favourable to women but should include all; The regulatory board should be constituted with equal representatives of all persons in the food system chain. 6. The dialogue should not only focus on the food system but other sector that adds value to the food system such as education, health; there should be effective collaboration of the food system chain with other sectors this will improve the overall wellbeing of the actors and players in the food system chain. Leer menos

The major focus of the Exploratory dialogue by Women Groups in Food and Agriculture challenges in Nigeria is to identify challenges and opportunities for the participation of Women in the Food System and deliberate on what a food system that includes and empowers women would look like. The focus also includes the identification of what needs to be done for women’s roles and contributions to be recognized and valued, for women to be able to exercise control over resources and assets for effective participation in the food systems and have a voice in key processes, and for institutions to be s... Leer másupportive of women. Because of the importance of women in the food systems, there was a felt need to galvanize inputs of women into Nigeria’s submission to the Global Food System Summit. Women are actively involved in food systems in a range of roles from production and processing to retailing and consumption. Women grow and manage crops, tend livestock, work in agribusinesses and food retailing, prepare food for their families, and much more. However, their socio-economic contributions and entrepreneurial potential often remain unrecognized and untapped. Prevailing socio-cultural norms commonly limit women’s ability to exercise power and autonomous decision-making; women therefore often continue to be disadvantaged in access to productive resources, innovative technologies, market information, financial services, education, and training. Other vulnerabilities such as ethnicity, age, and poverty further impact how women engage in food systems, e.g., married women may face additional challenges of caring for young children or other family members, or lack the resources required to do business in the food system. Addressing these inequalities in food systems means that women and men participate equally in and benefit equally from agricultural markets and rural economies to better sustain and improve their livelihoods, while preserving the natural resource base and adapting to climate change. Other vulnerabilities including ethnicity, age, and poverty further impact how women engage in food systems. For instance, young women seeking to become entrepreneurs can face multiple constraints based on gender, age, and the nature of work in the informal sector. If they are married, they may face additional challenges of caring for young children or other family members, or lack the resources required to do business in the food system. Leer menos

 Addressing the barriers faced by Women within the food systems will not only increase women participation in the Food system but will also address issues of unemployment of women, improve food security, and enhance sustainability.  Improving/facilitating women involvement in the food system has the potential to reduce the endemic rural poverty among women as well as reducing rural -urban migration.  Poor handling of relationships within the food system can result in socio-economic crisis that threatens education, health, human rights, as well as peace and security.  Food insecurit... Leer másy is likely to increase if challenges faced by women within the food system are not identified and addressed.  Women are not a homogenous group; it is therefore very important to look at the needs of women from diverse angles – producers, consumers, and entrepreneurs  Coordination of interventions aimed at improving the participation of women in the food system is very important – MDAs, other stakeholders to the community level.  It is important to bring forward many ‘he for she’; men that have been converted to support women.  Some strategic and immediate steps to be taken suggested during the dialogue include: - Integrating women in decision making at all levels – very important so that well intended policies may not achieve their aim. - Promoting household food production among both rural and urban women - Providing strong support for land clearing and promoting mechanisation of agriculture by Government and private sector players. - Strengthening the Agricultural Extension Services for knowledge transfer, guidance, and support through the entire food system. - Promoting women’s groups as aggregators to guarantee stability of food prices. - Encouraging crop diversification, including production of bio-fortified foods. - Facilitating access of women to improved packaging materials for preservation; and to solar technology for drying. - Promoting small-scale animal husbandry for household access to animal source foods and for income generation - Promoting the rational use of fertilizers and agrochemicals by farmers and food traders and promoting organic farming. - Encouraging local production of agricultural implements and processing machines. - Facilitating access of women to improved seeds and other production inputs - Addressing gender stereotypes and cultural practices that put women at a disadvantage. - Facilitating the formation of women cooperative societies for easy access to cheap credit and inputs, as well as equipment for processing - Building relevant infrastructure, and road networks to improve transportation to markets, and prevent spoilage and wastage. - Designing nutrition education targeted at communities and schools, empowering community members and school children to make healthy food choices and highlight the dangers of unhealthy diet. - Revisiting traditional foods, which are healthy and locally available and affordable but have been abandoned due to globalization and changing food patterns and raising their profile. - Regulating advertisement and marketing of unhealthy foods. - Raising children as change ambassadors through nutrition education embedded in school curriculum for safe, healthy, and sustainable food consumption. - Identifying and scaling up evidence-based interventions that target reduction of food wastage e.g., the promotion of micro-agro processing enterprises focused on women participation. - Promoting proper water conservation and water harvesting techniques and recycling - Formulating ‘Safe seeds’ Policies, promote cultivation of crops that are resistant to drought and are early maturing. - Creating awareness on the importance of equal opportunities for all including the women in the food system. - Setting up a system to fast-track registration of food products and eliminate barriers and frustration in registering products with the regulatory agencies - NAFDAC, SON - Facilitating the inclusion of women in decision making positions in associations. - Facilitating market access for women, including access to market information, direct and strong linkages with transporters, and creating fixed physical market spaces and schedules so women do not resort to mobile markets that are unsustainable and offer poor prices - Identifying locally appropriate/sustainable storage and packaging solutions to extend shelf-life of agricultural products - Establishing micro-processing hubs to facilitate processing of highly perishable foods and reduce seasonal price shocks - Diversifying livelihood sources for women along the food system - Facilitating increased availability of insurance products, farmer subscriptions for insurance, and regulation of insurance practice so that claims are addressed promptly. - Improving security of communities and women, and of transportation systems for food, e.g., strengthening of local vigilante groups so that they provide first-line defence; assigning farmlands to women in easy to reach, central locations; early warning systems and peace building skills for all communities - Developing and expanding platforms for reaching women with information, including market and weather information, and information about how to register processed products and expand business. 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Group 1: Women Groups and reduction of hunger and inequality, increasing availability and affordability of nutritious foods and ensuring food safety Actions urgently needed Strand 1: Reducing hunger and inequality • Provision of rural infrastructure, including access roads, power and facilities for storage and processing. • Implementation of massive irrigation programme to enable year-round farm production. • Facilitation of access to farmland for women. • Promotion of food production among both rural and urban women across the agricultural value chain. • Strong support by government... Leer más and private sector players to land clearing and promotion of farm mechanisation. • Strengthening of Agricultural Extension Services, for knowledge transfer, guidance, and support through the entire agriculture value chains. • Encouragement of small-holder farmers to form cooperatives, for better access to financing and inputs, as well as equipment for processing. • Promotion of women groups as aggregators to guarantee affordability and stability of food prices. They can also better negotiate prices for the produce with agro-allied industry. Strand 2: Increasing availability and affordability of nutritious foods • Expansion of the variety of farmed crops, including bio-fortified foods. • Promotion of processing to enable product development, including blending of various foods as means of fortification. • Promotion of urban farming. • Promotion of small-scale animal husbandry, for supplementary feeding and income enhancement. Strand 3: Ensuring safe food • Adoption of Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) to assure good food safety standards, and increased marketability and exportability of the produce and products. • Promotion of organic farming. • Availability of improved packaging materials for preservation. • Massive adoption of solar technology for drying produce for preservation. • Sustained awareness campaign against abuse of fertilizers and agrochemicals by farmers and food traders, and inappropriate application of pesticides to stored products such as maize and beans, dried yam etc. • Campaign against food adulteration as well as inappropriate application of harmful chemicals, including calcium carbide to force ripen fruits.   Cross-cutting • Massive local production of agricultural implements and processing machines by facilitating local development and assisting fabricators. • Vigorous enhancement of security in rural areas and farming communities. • Promotion of household food production Who should take the actions? • Linkage of outcomes of research projects in tertiary institutions to the private sector, for greater efficiency and productivity in the food system, as well as for food products development. • Robust relationship with development partners and multilateral organizations, particularly in the provision of technology and market development, for global competitiveness and agricultural value chain expansion. Ways in which progress could be assessed • Implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation system. • Feedback mechanism, particularly through NGOs. Leer menos