Independiente Diálogo
Enfoque geográfico:
Mongolia
Main findings
Participants in the civil society dialogues of organizations determined that there are the following pressing problems regarding the above topics. - Due to the lack of implementation of the legislation on the food system, food security is not properly ensured. - Many projects and programs are being implemented to develop food value addition chains along the lines of foreign states and donor organizations, but due to their poor connection, the desired results are not achieved. - Family farms, engaged in farming, have the status of unofficial employment and their registration and information abo
... Leer másut them are not fully collected and therefore they remain outside the state support. - Control over the quality and safety of schools and kindergartens feeding is not open and transparent. - The level of development of the production of healthy food and food for children is low. - It should be noted that sweets are excessively used in children's sanatoriums. - The quality and safety of food products is lost at the stage of transportation and storage. The safety of food packaging is weak and the labels of imported food products are in foreign languages without translation. - The control of professional control organizations over the use of pesticides in agriculture is weak. - The level of security and maintenance of independent laboratories, which analyze and confirm the quality and safety of food products, is low. - The incomes of herdsmen and farmers as primary producers are lower than those of intermediate traders. As products pass through intermediate traders, the price of food products increases, their quality and safety is lost, and income inequality is formed. - The knowledge of farmers about pesticide residues in food products and the knowledge of herdsmen about drug residues is weak. - The expansion of the mining industry has an increasingly negative impact on livestock breeding and agricultural production. They have proposed following recommendations and actions to tackle the existing issues: Comprehensive updating of legislation related to the food system and the formation of an institution and a mechanism for its effective implementation; Ensure the action of the Food Security Council in the form of a unified platform and increase the sustainability and efficiency of its activities; Formation of a mechanism for the constant involvement of civil society organizations in the process of working out policy for the development of the food systems and making decisions; Increasing the provision of independent and licensed laboratories and strengthening their capacity to improve the assurance of control over the quality and safety of food products; Creation of a new warehouses for storing vegetables and expanding its capacity; Formation and development of a system of delivery to the market and effective sale of products of herdsmen and farmers through Agriculture exchanges; Improving food service standards for school and kindergarten children and strengthening implementation control; -Ensuring real financial and investment support to entrepreneurs of organic agriculture and food production; Supporting private sector initiatives for the creation and development of processing enterprises for milk and dairy products; Supporting private sector initiatives for the creation and development of specialized enterprises for the production of diets and food for children; Produce at home the main inputs, which are used in the production of the basic assortment of food products and packaging items to reduce import dependence; Adobtion of the application of mobile phones, which translates labels of imported food products in foreign languages into Mongolian; Create a special television channel to disseminate information on food security and food production and consumption to consumers and provide science-based information and training through it; Increasing the role and responsibility of parents and ensuring cooperation between preschool education organizations, secondary schools and families to instill healthy nutrition habits in children from an early age. Advantages of the Mongolian food system - Because of underdeveloped heavy industry, Mongolia has a broad opportunity of producing, consuming, and exporting organic, traditional, and eco food. Therefore, it is possible to produce innovative products by empowering the herders. - Since herders also connected to the urban centers, there are a wide range of opportunities to deliver their produces to the market, and the products can be marketed using smartphones - Mongolian production industry can be clustered. There are broad opportunities to develop non-mining productions. Leer menos
Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment