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-Nature based solutions that involve actions to work with and embrace nature e.g developing riparian areas are important in ensuring sustainability of food systems for all. They sustain production, mitigate climate change and erosion, increase income and biodiversity and sustain healthy ecosystems. This idea should be implemented in members' localities. -Agripreneurship should be positioned for youth employment. The youth should be equipped through skill development, financing and financial literacy and land access policies. -People with disabilities should be capacitated with farm inputs and
... Leer másbe faicilitated with materials on food production and other opportunities that they can read e.g. by use of braille, so as to enjoy the same benefits as the rest of the population. -There should be effective advocacy processes by all to ensure the youth, women and persons with disabilities are represented in food systems policy making. A bottom- up approach that begins from the local communities should be used. -Acess to information: Manuals and other advocacy material developed should resonate with the needs of the persons with disabilites as well as the women and youth. They should be simple and in formats that all can access. -Partnerships between government and the private sector should be pursued in providing credit, soiling testing services, community edcuation through demonstration farms and agricultural insurance for sustainable food systems. -Research is essential where gender transformative indicators should be used to ensure inclusion of all e.g. how many are engaged from each gender and interest groups. Calls for proposal should be tailor made for different groups (youth, women, persons with disabilities). -Social protection programmes that are linked with families for people with disabilities are essentail to ensure access to quality nutrition. Training and capacity building required to engage in decision making, for value addition of produce and in finding markets. Digital training of farmers is also essential. Equal access to resources by all (youth, women and persons with disabilities) is required for sustainable food systems. Leer menos
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Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment