Estados Unidos de América - Fase 2
Main findings
Participants explored opportunities for creating more sustainable food systems in the United States. The goal of the Dialogue was to enable a diverse set of youth in food and agriculture to work together – examining their food systems, exploring options for change, and identifying pathways for these systems to become more sustainable to meet evolving needs and challenges. The focus of the “Youth Voices in Sustainable U.S. Food Systems” Dialogue was to identify solutions and pathways to improving the sustainability of U.S. food systems. While the discussion topics were organized around th
... Leer máse five UN Food Systems Summit Action Tracks outlined above, the discussions did not fall neatly into these silos. Instead, participants broadened the discussions to holistically consider opportunities and tradeoffs across food systems and goals related to sustainability and resilience. Some participants shared that their personal backgrounds with food and agriculture informed the solutions they proposed, for instance growing up on a farm or participating in an agriculture science curriculum in an urban school. Four overarching solutions emerged: 1) school-based nutrition and agricultural education, 2) a web-based label scanning tool to provide clear and transparent information on the economic, social, and environmental impacts of food systems, 3) innovative policies and programs, and 4) improved prediction of agricultural supply chains through Artificial Intelligence (AI). See below discussion for further detail on solutions. In all the discussion groups, participants discussed where they thought more research or scientific evidence is needed. Discussions highlighted the lack of good cost benefit analyses of existing food assistance programs, lack of information sharing regarding information on food sustainability, and a data gap on the health of farmers and agricultural supply chain workers. Additionally, some participants noted information gaps on the downstream effects of gene editing in livestock and a lack of data analyzing the types of subsidies needed to transition to more sustainable production systems. Some participants also raised challenges relating to the existence of inaccurate and difficult-to-understand information. Dialogue participants also discussed barriers to implementation of the proposed solutions. All groups noted that the lack of financial resources can prevent the adoption of food systems solutions. Some participants noted that differing food preferences could prevent adoption of healthy diets, that difficulties with voluntary disclosure of information could prevent success of digital consumer-oriented tools, and that systemic barriers in education such as the inflexibility of standardized school curriculums could prevent growth of agricultural and nutritional education. Some participants identified barriers to implementation of urban agriculture including competing interests from retailers. Some participants hypothesized that barriers to improving the conditions of farmworkers included immigration status of workers and the outsized influence of certain industries and corporations. Some participants noted that financial and size limitations of farms could be barriers to implementation of new technologies. Discussion group participants discussed the tradeoffs that might arise in building more sustainable food systems. Some participants noted that certain groups benefit more than others from food assistance, that digital tools like a web-based label scanning app could impact food prices, and that some urban agriculture systems can be energy intensive and have expensive startup costs. Additionally, some participants noted that sustainable agriculture practices may be costly and time-consuming to implement to achieve comparable productivity to conventional agriculture. Some participants raised the concern that automation of agriculture could displace labor. Finally, some participants discussed the potential for unforeseen environmental consequences of innovation as ecosystems are not one-size-fits-all. Leer menos
Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Governance, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
