Independiente Diálogo Farmers and Consumers at the centre of 2021 UN SG Food Systems Summit Enfoque geográfico: Sin fronteras Discussion topic outcome DECONCENTRATION OF VALUE IN FOOD CHAINS The debate opened with a mutual recognition of good practices on both sides of the food value chain. There was consensus on the need to maintain transparency throughout the food chain, so that even the price of food could be set fairly. In addition, the pandemic has brought to light that alternative models are possible and feasible and has made it clear that direct sales from producer to consumer are viable. Finally, it is necessary to reshape the chain with sustainability and justice at its core. Participants agreed that a just food system is needed and... Leer más that it is essential to respect the local production, local crops, local types of animals, and to avoid homologation. Each country, each region has its own personality and the base of the system has to be transparency and trust. Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Palabras clave: Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
Independiente Diálogo Farmers and Consumers at the centre of 2021 UN SG Food Systems Summit Enfoque geográfico: Sin fronteras Discussion topic outcome SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION PRACTICES Participants in this session reflected on the possibility that aesthetic and convenience factors often determine consumer choice. Although consumer awareness of sustainability issues has increased, the price and how a food appears can be a determining factor, not realizing that the price does not reflect all externalities and that what comes from the field can appear deformed. At the same time, consumers have expectations regarding access to healthy and nutritious food that are not always met. In this case, enforcement of existing legislation and standards come... Leer máss into play. Farmers have expressed frustration at this point because there is not always a levelling of standards which makes production very difficult. However, a positive aspect is that farmers are investing a lot in new technologies and digitalisation. This allows them to increase the quality of what is produced, have more control and reduce the environmental impact. Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Palabras clave: Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
Independiente Diálogo Farmers and Consumers at the centre of 2021 UN SG Food Systems Summit Enfoque geográfico: Sin fronteras Discussion topic outcome DELIVERING FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION According to the reporting speakers, the discussion developed around the following themes. First of all, once again, education was considered to have a key role to play. Both consumers and farmers need to be well informed about existing initiatives and regulations. Furthermore, it is good that farmers master the tools at their disposal in order to improve their production techniques and are updated on available agricultural best practices. However, technology and innovation can be a double-edged sword. Indeed, it is not always optimally used. Furthermore,... Leer más it is essential to reduce food losses and ensure a functioning and fair food value chain in which all three sectors - from the producer, through the processor to the consumer - complement each other perfectly. Only in this way will it be possible to ensure a virtuous circle and to eliminate food waste. Hence, cooperatives are the winning solution in this process. Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Palabras clave: Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
Independiente Diálogo Farmers and Consumers at the centre of 2021 UN SG Food Systems Summit Enfoque geográfico: Sin fronteras Discussion topic outcome TRANSFORMING CONSUMPTION PATTERNS In this group, much emphasis was placed on education and the importance of bridging the knowledge gap between farmers and consumers. This begins in schools, including school canteens, and it ends in the supermarket where consumers need more information about the way of production in order to make sustainable choices. Furthermore, participants agreed that governments should create policies to bring consumers and farmers closer together, and especially to close the gap between producer and consumer prices. Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Palabras clave: Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
Independiente Diálogo Farmers and Consumers at the centre of 2021 UN SG Food Systems Summit Enfoque geográfico: Sin fronteras Main findings This dialogue was approached in a spirit of partnership and inclusiveness, resulting in a united voice of farmers and consumers. Considerable discussion took place on how to reshape the food chain and make it more sustainable. In doing so, however, attention was paid to the needs of both parties, starting with their expectations and concerns. The key points that emerged relate to the need to redefine the food system and redesign the public policies that support it. While farmers and consumers are the main players and potential drivers of change, they are not the only ones upon whom change can ... Leer másdepend. There is a very complex food system that is always evolving. The danger in this area is that food has so many different impacts at national level that often the policies and actions that are taken end up being very diluted, delaying the progress that is needed. A core area, which sounds very obvious, concerns the promotion of cross-cutting national food policies. Very few countries have actually adopted policies with common priorities at national level covering not only health, environment and agriculture, but also trade policy, economic growth, education, which -although seemingly unrelated- affect the food system. Aligned governmental guidelines are urgently required across countries, regarding effective parental nutrition labelling, regulation of misleading claims or marketing practices, where there is certainly a role for responsible businesses, but also the need for a governmental framework to support these efforts. We're dealing with global supply chains and global companies across many different jurisdictions. It's really crucial, therefore, to harmonize national laws. Another relevant issue concerns prices and access to affordable food, where the dilemma revolved around being able to produce sustainably at a price that is not prohibitive for consumers. In this respect, the role of technology and digital solutions is crucial. Thanks to blockchain and QR codes, farmers can ensure more transparent and traceable production and share data with consumers who will be able to make more informed choices, on price as well. Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
Independiente Diálogo Farmers and Consumers at the centre of 2021 UN SG Food Systems Summit Enfoque geográfico: Sin fronteras Major focus The Dialogue at stake is the second in a three-dialogue series and is intended to revert to and expand on the topics discussed in the previous one. The structure included a morning and an afternoon session, where the same issues were addressed. Compared to the previous dialogue, the focus was on more specific questions, encouraging debate and the expression of possible differences on controversial points and dig into the issues that are at the heart of the transformation we want to see in the coming years. The aim, in fact, is to develop a vision for the evolution of food systems that takes in... Leer másto account the perspectives and priorities of both sides. One round of break up sessions was organized under the following themes: 1) Transforming consumption patterns 2) Delivering food security and nutrition 3) Sustainable production practices 4) Deconcentration of value in food chains Each discussion that took place in the various break-up sessions was reported back to the plenary by a representative from each of the two sides. At the end of this discussion, in the plenary session, strategies and visions were developed with respect to future steps that could be leveraged through the process. Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
Independiente Diálogo Exploring the feasibility of developing a shared national accountability and reporting framework for the food industry. Enfoque geográfico: Sin fronteras Discussion topic outcome Breakout room 1: Benchmarks are useful structures to know what issues & questions we should be asking companies, even in countries like the UK where this is comparatively a lot of info from the countries themselves. There is a rise of interest in corporate responsibility, so investors need to understand the different trends. There are solid financial gains in health & nutrition for companies and benchmarks can ignite change especially where legislation is lacking. Firstly, when we create indicators how do we best define sustainability? What is the right balance of indictors in each con... Leer mástext and how are they relevant for consumers, investors, regulators? How do we build indictors in a multistakeholder context? How do we know an index will be useful and create positive change? For instance, with economic sustainability we can look at leading or lagging indicators e.g. how many jobs are created – but is this the right indicator? Or is investment in sustainable finance better? How do we create change, how does it speak to our context and how is it globally relevant? Legislation doesn’t support the translation of the policy into practice. The concern in Bangladesh is the policy translation by governments so governments need support from other agencies to do this. In Egypt the market is full of snack for children that are high in fat, sugar, salt and obesity rates are soaring. The legislative framework and standards and norms for food safety is there, but the infrastructure for application is weak. This is shared in all low- and middle-income countries. I would like very much for Egypt and other African countries to make a survey of acceptability of a benchmarking system to see who would join it. We have working relations with some leading industry players and then the others will follow. The SUN initiative is integral entry point for benchmarking & improving nutrition in African countries. It is an established relationship of stakeholders committed to health and wellbeing of children, a captive committed community already. If you start with the food producers in Egypt say through the Chamber of Commerce or Food industry associations, you will find a lot of resistance. How to create greater harmonization? SDG indicators aren’t perfect – no animal welfare for instance – then you need to weigh up what the indicator is (in terms of data and whether it’s comparable). We don’t want to capture the status quo or mislead. It can be difficult to create indicators when we have to rely on industry best practice for guidance as there is no international standards, e.g. warning labels on foods in Mexico. Some countries oppose regulations or lobby against it but so far there has been some positive responses. Walmart you filter your shopping cart to take out those with warning labels. ATNI is using government endorsed nutrition portfolio ratings and change analysis in the scoring guidelines for individual companies rather than focusing on the league tables as the end result. Breakout room 2: Most of the participants in breakout room 2 represented global benchmarking initiatives. They spent their time synthesising the learning from global initiatives that could be translates into national frameworks: We need to create stronger links between national govt and benchmarks; We need to reach different stakeholders and there needs to be more sharing of successes and failures between different benchmarking initiatives; We need to create more demand for independent, verifiable data. Greater demand for independent data that isn’t just provided by companies who are self-reporting; We recommend a global benchmarking framework that could be adapted in different national contexts; Breakout room 3: Having a benchmark alone is not enough, it’s about driving change and we need a consistent way of measuring. General agreement that a broad framework would be helpful. Within LMICs there is a lack of understanding of what is happening at country level and a need to start benchmarking. We need a globally harmonised framework that records the global impact of farming mechanisms. These need to be measuring based on outcome Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 2 Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Governance, Policy
Independiente Diálogo Exploring the feasibility of developing a shared national accountability and reporting framework for the food industry. Enfoque geográfico: Sin fronteras Main findings The dialogue identified a set of common technical challenges around both national and global benchmarking initiatives. Challenges include how we develop standardised metrics and the importance of using metrics that drive change (for instance whether we build on what is already being measured or thinking about new metrics). How data is sourced (for instance independent versus company data) is another common challenge. Another common challenge was around engagement, who we should be engaging and how to do this in a way that drives change. Key stakeholders to engage are businesses, investors and ... Leer másSMEs. The media are another important stakeholder group. How we involve each of these stakeholder groups and engage with them will produce different outcomes. The difference between ‘naming and shaming’ and league tables was one example provided. The dialogue also identified the need and demand to create a global network to further explore the feasibility and practicality of developing a shared approach for monitoring and reporting food businesses nationally and globally. Global companies behave differently in different countries. Using the same benchmarking approaches in different countries would help to compare companies’ performance in different countries and, if there are discrepancies, use this as a way of driving change and subsequently levelling the playing fields between countries in developed and developing countries. Agreement that there may be a value in developing a set of standard tools that could be applied in different country settings. Individuals came forward in the dialogue to say they would be interested in being part of these discussions going forward. Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 2 Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Policy
Independiente Diálogo Exploring the feasibility of developing a shared national accountability and reporting framework for the food industry. Enfoque geográfico: Sin fronteras Major focus This dialogue was exploring the feasibility of developing a shared national accountability and reporting framework for the food industry. It seeked to answer the question: how can emerging initiatives that benchmark the food industry and engage with stakeholders such as government and investors be applied to countries outside of the traditional benchmarking regions of Europe and the USA? Línea(s) de Acción: 2 Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Policy
Rwanda - Fase 1 Toward Resilient and Inclusive Food Systems in Rwanda: Economic, Social and Environmental Resilience. Area of divergence 1. Regional food trade: There was divergence between the relative importance of harmonizing trade standards across East Africa and raising the awareness of smallholder farmers to regional standards. On the one hand, there is a gap between East African countries related to trade with Kenya having a higher level of standards than its neighbors for example. One proposal is therefore to bring in expertise on issues related to policies, food safety regulations, and post-harvest handling to harmonize policy. Others noted that while differences in standards exist, there are legal and economic framewo... Leer másrks in place, notable the EAC trade forum to address trade disputes in the interests of vulnerable stakeholders. Following this, raising awareness of differing standards is key so that farmers are able to export to other markets competitively. 2. Risk mitigation and insurance: There was divergence on the percentage of insurance premiums that should be paid for by government. It was mentioned that in some parts of India, 80-90% was required to attract interest compared with 40% in Rwanda. Others noted that this was not feasible in Rwanda and that the emphasis should instead be on integrated crop insurance into existing social protection programmes. There were also difference in the role that insurance companies should play with some arguing that they were not doing enough while others mentioned that the larger problem lies with the lack of trust farmers have in the insurance providers. This fed into the larger theme of public-private partnerships and the balance that must be found between business interests and social protection. 3. Early warning systems (EWS): The use of technology to disseminate EWS information was mentioned as a possible game-changing solution to tackle low awareness but there was divergence on how to make it user-friendly and accessible. The success of an FAO smartphone application that provided information about the weather, hazards, nutrition and animal resources to help farmers deal with climate change was used as a case study. However, the issue of not all farmers, particularly the most vulnerable, not having access to a smartphone was raised. With 80% mobile phone coverage in Rwanda, simple SMS messages could be an alternative although the effectiveness of transmitting complex information in such a limiting format would remain a challenge. 4. Climate smart agriculture (CSA): There was some divergence over the promotion of biodiversity and the use of more nutritious and drought-resistant crop species Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 5 Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Innovation, Policy
Rwanda - Fase 1 Toward Resilient and Inclusive Food Systems in Rwanda: Economic, Social and Environmental Resilience. Discussion topic outcome Topic 1. Economic Resilience (Regional food trade) Existing Challenge within Food Systems • Lack of awareness of regional compliance standards among stakeholders so that Rwandan produce can become marketable in the regional trade system • Lacking infrastructure keeps transport prices high • Significant gaps in trade standards between East African countries continue to create challenges for trade Game changing solutions Increase the participation of smallholder farmers in regional food markets through a private sector friendly business environment • Harmonize border inspect procedures t... Leer máshrough regional blocs (namely EAC) • Target infrastructure investments based on market demand to reduce logistic costs and expand participation by smallholders • Capacity building for MSMEs on trade standards Topic 2. Economic & Social resilience (Risk mitigation and insurance) Challenge: • Low awareness of insurance products among smallholder farmers, which affects trust and uptake • Underdeveloped data collection, M&E and Knowledge systems on all aspects related to agricultural insurance, including historical data on yields, losses, weather-related data points, etc… • Despite the government subsidy, perception is that insurance premiums remain too high Game changing solutions Increase coverage of livestock and crop insurance • Continue increasing awareness through national media campaigns • Leverage innovative technologies (including satellite/drone technology) to enhance the data systems linked to insurance, as well as customer feedback mechanisms to ensure use of lessons • Continue initiatives aimed at reducing premium costs through de-risking the sector Topic 3a. Environmental & Social resilience (Early Warning Systems) Challenges: • Underdeveloped data management systems linked to EWS technologies • Limited access to information on EWS, particularly among vulnerable and isolated communities in an accessible and low-cost manner. Game changing solutions Expand access to Early Warning System (EWS) data for enhanced decision making among smallholder farmers • Pilot EWS initiatives in vulnerable districts with a view to stress test and fine tune data sharing protocols • Design human-centered, user-friendly information delivery systems using accessible technology for the end users of information (mainly smallholder farmers) Topic 3b. Environmental resilience (Climate Smart Agriculture) Challenges: • Lack of a multi-sectoral coordination approach to promote CSA practices. • Limited application of CSA practices and technologies that are contextualized for Rwandan agriculture Game changing solutions Increase area under climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices through enhanced coordination and smart incentives for green production • Ensure coordination among stakeholders through strengthened national systems, including public-private dialogues (PPD), value chain platforms (VCPs) among others • Incentivize Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices (smart subsidies, tax breaks), as well as create stronger partnerships with institutes (e.g. RICA) promoting such practices Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 5 Palabras clave: Environment and Climate, Innovation, Policy
Rwanda - Fase 1 Toward Resilient and Inclusive Food Systems in Rwanda: Economic, Social and Environmental Resilience. Main findings Topic 1. Economic Resilience (Regional food trade) Existing Challenge within Food Systems • Lack of awareness of regional compliance standards among stakeholders so that Rwandan produce can become marketable in the regional trade system • Lacking infrastructure keeps transport prices high • Significant gaps in trade standards between East African countries continue to create challenges for trade Game changing solutions Increase the participation of smallholder farmers in regional food markets through a private sector friendly business environment • Harmonize border inspect procedures t... Leer máshrough regional blocs (namely EAC) • Target infrastructure investments based on market demand to reduce logistic costs and expand participation by smallholders • Capacity building for MSMEs on trade standards Topic 2. Economic & Social resilience (Risk mitigation and insurance) Challenge: • Low awareness of insurance products among smallholder farmers, which affects trust and uptake • Underdeveloped data collection, M&E and Knowledge systems on all aspects related to agricultural insurance, including historical data on yields, losses, weather-related data points, etc… • Despite the government subsidy, perception is that insurance premiums remain too high Game changing solutions Increase coverage of livestock and crop insurance • Continue increasing awareness through national media campaigns • Leverage innovative technologies (including satellite/drone technology) to enhance the data systems linked to insurance, as well as customer feedback mechanisms to ensure use of lessons • Continue initiatives aimed at reducing premium costs through de-risking the sector Topic 3a. Environmental & Social resilience (Early Warning Systems) Challenges: • Underdeveloped data management systems linked to EWS technologies • Limited access to information on EWS, particularly among vulnerable and isolated communities in an accessible and low-cost manner. Game changing solutions Expand access to Early Warning System (EWS) data for enhanced decision making among smallholder farmers • Pilot EWS initiatives in vulnerable districts with a view to stress test and fine tune data sharing protocols • Design human-centered, user-friendly information delivery systems using accessible technology for the end users of information (mainly smallholder farmers) Topic 3b. Environmental resilience (Climate Smart Agriculture) Challenges: • Lack of a multi-sectoral coordination approach to promote CSA practices. • Limited application of CSA practices and technologies that are contextualized for Rwandan agriculture Game changing solutions Increase area under climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices through enhanced coordination and smart incentives for green production • Ensure coordination among stakeholders through strengthened national systems, including public-private dialogues (PPD), value chain platforms (VCPs) among others • Incentivize Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices (smart subsidies, tax breaks), as well as create stronger partnerships with institutes (e.g. RICA) promoting such practices Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 5 Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Innovation, Policy
Rwanda - Fase 1 Toward Resilient and Inclusive Food Systems in Rwanda: Economic, Social and Environmental Resilience. Major focus The focus of the stage 1 dialogue, “Toward Resilient and Inclusive Food Systems in Rwanda: Economic, Social and Environmental Resilience” was Action Track 5. Participants therefore discussed how to build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stress, and ensure continued functionality of sustainable food systems in the Rwanda context. The dialogue aimed to facilitate the broad engagement of stakeholders including government, academia, the private sector and development partners. The dialogue divided the action track into three central approaches: • Economic Resilience: Being equitab... Leer másle and inclusive; • Social Resilience: Producing broad-based benefits for all people for them to be able to recover effectively and efficiently from shocks; and • Environmental Resilience: Generating positive and regenerative impacts on the natural environment. The dialogue opened with brief presentations given by invited speakers to help set the scene for participants. The speakers were followed by four breakout sessions where participants were asked to identify gaps and opportunities in Rwanda’s food system on one of the following thematic areas: Regional food trade: The Rwandan food system is strengthened by integration into East African trade that connects smallholder farms to reliable markets and distributes profits fairly across all actors along the value chain. Risk mitigation and insurance, focusing on Rwanda’s National Agriculture Insurance Scheme (NAIS): Crop insurance is a risk management tool which provides dependable support to smallholder farmers facing shocks across Rwanda. Insurance coverage during adverse years prevents households from resorting to negative coping that erodes the natural resource base and degrades ecosystems, while supporting access to credit and financial services at more favorable terms and encouraging an entrepreneurial mindset and innovation. Access to insurance is an effective mechanism to de-risk food systems. Early warning systems (EWS): Smallholder farmers and other stakeholders along the food systems value chain receive timely warnings on shocks using better data and mobile technology. Rwanda has been expanding its early warning system to help people prepare for extreme weather events so as to reduce vulnerability and economic losses from these. Climate smart agriculture (CSA): Pervasive use of conservation agriculture, climate resistant crops and other forms of climate smart agriculture (CSA) boost Rwanda’s food systems resilience to natural disasters and environmental stresses caused by climate change. During discussions, each group considered policy, innovation, finance and inclusivity as cross-cutting issues. Objectives 1. To contribute to national efforts for sustainable food systems by 2030, providing participating stakeholders with a deeper understanding of their food systems and how they can be transformed. 2. To create an opportunity for engagement and interconnection among a broad set of stakeholders, enhancing connectivity and relations among national food systems actors. 3. During the Dialogues, participants that represent different stakeholder groups will work out how they intend to contribute to the sustainability of national food systems and, ideally, make commitments for which they are accountable. 4. To engage participants on future endeavors for sustainable food systems, in line with their intentions and commitments, beyond the Summit. Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 5 Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Innovation, Policy
Independiente Diálogo National Independent Dialogue in Bangladesh on Food Systems Summit 2021 Enfoque geográfico: Bangladesh Area of divergence The areas of divergence that emerged during the dialogue could be easily identified from the section outcomes from each discussion topic. Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Palabras clave: Environment and Climate, Governance, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
Independiente Diálogo National Independent Dialogue in Bangladesh on Food Systems Summit 2021 Enfoque geográfico: Bangladesh Discussion topic outcome As said before, we divided all the stakeholders into three groups for FGD and fixed action tracks as a discussion topic for them. The group one discussed one action track- 01; group two discussed on action track- 02 & 03 and group three discussed on action track- 04 & 05. Now the outcomes of the breakout discussions are given below: Group One: • Establishment of a strong sustainable farmers’ platform in Bangladesh. • Allocation of subsidized inputs such as chemical fertilizers, irrigated water, tractor, high-producing & climate-adaptive varieties of seeds, pesticides, etc. �... Leer más� Strengthening Agricultural cooperatives. • Seed bank establishment and controlled by the government and other responsible directly. • Raising crop production by vegetable garden at the homestead areas and the rooftop through conducting awareness campaigns using social media and small financial support. • Establishment of cold storage and production factory in those areas where production rate is high. It will be helpful to save perishable food items and to give more profit to the farmers. • Support to the farmers for ensuring direct market linkage to get the fair price of his/her produced food items. • Policy reformation focusing to encourage and involve women and youth in agriculture. Group Two: • From the government effective policy is required for market management and ensuring fair price of food crops of the farmer. Government will take responsibility to buy, sell and preserve food crops. • Ownership of seed is not in the hand of farmers. The seed bank is the solution of this problem. • The price of crops is fixed by the middle right holder and farmers have no power to fix it and farmers are hostage by this middle exploiting class who also make the artificial crisis in the market. • In the farmers’ community, there must have buying and selling center to ensure the legal price of food crops. • In the farmers' community, there is not sufficient opportunity to preserve surplus crops. To solve this problem in the community level cold storage required. The cooperative farmers' group can take initiative to solve this problem. Group Three: • Focus on the groups whose livelihoods (women, youth, indigenous peoples, the disabled, seasonal laborer’s, etc.) are most limited by current food systems practices, and the discriminatory practices and norms that limit equitable livelihoods. • Inclusion of pro-poor nature-based solutions and climate change and environment policies to improve the capacity of the poor to manage risks. • Research is needed in local level connecting the local people and farmers and those who are involved in the food system. • Mainstreaming Climate change, adaptation, resilience in national, sectoral and spatial development & humanitarian development program. • Develop Effective Country Investment Plan (CIP) for Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition. Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Palabras clave: Environment and Climate, Governance, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
Independiente Diálogo National Independent Dialogue in Bangladesh on Food Systems Summit 2021 Enfoque geográfico: Bangladesh Main findings Major findings: • Establishment of a strong sustainable farmers’ platform in Bangladesh. • Allocation of subsidized inputs such as chemical fertilizers, irrigated water, tractor, high-producing & climate-adaptive varieties of seeds, pesticides, etc. • Strengthening Agricultural cooperatives. • It is seen that there is a gap between the agricultural officer and farmers’ community so in maximum time farmers are unable to get government facility from them. • Information gaps about healthy diets and sustainably produced food. • Mainstreaming the climate impact- invest needed fo... Leer másr new agricultural seeds that would be stress tolerance. • The price of crops is fixed by the middle right holder and farmers have no power to fix it and farmers are hostage by this middle exploiting class who also make the artificial crisis in the market. • Seed bank establishment and controlled by the government and other responsible directly. • Raising crop production by vegetable garden at the homestead areas and the rooftop through conducting awareness campaigns using social media and small financial support. • Establishment of cold storage and production factory in those areas where production rate is high. It will be helpful to save perishable food items and to give more profit to the farmers. • Support to the farmers for ensuring direct market linkage to get the fair price of his/her produced food items. • Promote climate adaptive technologies and techniques for sustainable food production • Focus efforts on making value chains inclusive through the generation of decent employment and improving resilience through social protection. • Emphasis on Agricultural diversification and rural employment generation and enhanced agro-based economic activities. • More research or scientific evidence is needed to better illustrate challenges and probable solutions. Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Palabras clave: Environment and Climate, Governance, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
Independiente Diálogo National Independent Dialogue in Bangladesh on Food Systems Summit 2021 Enfoque geográfico: Bangladesh Major focus The National Independent Dialogue on Food Systems Summit has given a powerful opportunity for the participants to bring together a variety of stakeholders, including voices that are hardly ever heard, and provide a significant opportunity to engage directly in proposing pathways towards sustainable food systems, exploring new ways of working together and encouraging collaborative action. In addition from it has also created a chance for the participants to share their issues/ideas and thoughts which are both critical for reducing the vulnerability and enhance the resilience of food systems fro... Leer másm local to the national level in a country and the Summit’s success. COAST organized this event to bring out and implement actions that can change the ways in which food systems operate in Bangladesh. The major focus was to identify the priority issues from the solution clusters of the action tracks which are suited for our country and to share any additional recommendation for the betterment of overall food system. Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Palabras clave: Environment and Climate, Governance, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
Malasia - Fase 1 Food Safety for Home-based Businesses Area of divergence There's a positive divergence of opinion within the participants. Home-based food businesses use their home to prepare and handle food for sale. Regardless the size of the business, they have to meet the same food safety requirements as others. And during the global pandemic Covid-19, many people especially the housewives (women) and youth started this home-based food business to earn money from home. There should be some consideration for modification of food safety guidelines and materials for them. Línea(s) de Acción: 1 Palabras clave: Women & Youth Empowerment
Malasia - Fase 1 Food Safety for Home-based Businesses Discussion topic outcome A vision for safe home-based food businesses will transform food systems and achieve the goal of ensuring access to safe and nutritious food for all. The ambition of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit is to launch a collective journey of transforming our food systems to give us the best possible chance of delivering on the SDG 2030. Línea(s) de Acción: 1 Palabras clave: Women & Youth Empowerment
Malasia - Fase 1 Food Safety for Home-based Businesses Main findings Main findings are : 1. There are demands from the public and consumers for relevant authorities to take proactive measures and regulate home-based food businesses to prevent untoward incidents. 2. Registration of the home-based food businesses is the least requirement to be made to ensure the traceability in the food supply chain if the food caused problems, for instance, food poisoning. 3. More engagement on education and awareness through on line platform to be carried out to outreach more parties due to pandemic Covid-19. 4. Most home-based food business operators are housewives and youth o... Leer másr those doing it to complement their household income on a full-time or part-time basis 5. Identified barriers are the limitation of hands-on information when the engagement was conducted through online platform. Leer menos Línea(s) de Acción: 1 Palabras clave: Women & Youth Empowerment
