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Action Track 1: Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all Improving the availability and affordability of food is still a commonly proposed solution to overcome food insecurity, which still occurs in different degrees across all regions in Indonesia. Many areas in Indonesia still depend on food supplies from other areas because their land is not suitable for cultivating certain food crops. Even if suitable land is available, it cannot produce enough to meet the needs of the population living in these areas. Only a small part of Indonesia’s land is able to properly produce rice, which... Read more is the population’s main staple food. The long and complicated food distribution chain must be made more cost-efficient. A proper logistics system is paramount to ensure food is available in every area at all times and accessible to all the population. Low connectivity between the islands results in high logistic costs, resulting in a dramatic increase in prices. Interventions from the Government are needed to address these issues. Food price fluctuations negatively impact the food security of the low-income population, who spend more than 50 percent of their total income on food. All regions in Indonesia should also be encouraged to promote their local food as alternatives to foods that require transporting from other areas. As a mega-biodiversity country, Indonesia will easily fit this purpose with its varied types of local food crops. In addition to availability and affordability, we also took safe and nutritious food into account in the dialogues. Food literacy is proposed as a key intervention, considering that some people are still unfamiliar with the nutritional value and the safety of food in the markets. Fruit and vegetable, animal meat and fish consumption is still low. Unaffordable food prices have become an issue in some communities. In terms of food safety, food standards and traceability are crucial. In line with their implementation, the Government is committed to providing technical and financial assistance to small and medium enterprises working in the food sector to meet the existing standards. The low-income population is the most vulnerable group considering they are the main consumers of food produced by these SMEs. The needs for safety aspects of foods particularly occur in household-scale industries, street foods, and SMEs as well as on farms and post-harvest handling due to contaminations and environmental climate that may produce unsafe foods or huge. Finally, additional resources should be provided to ensure safe and nutritious food in remote, outermost, and underdeveloped areas, starting from human resources, infrastructure, and appropriate technology. The Government is expected to work with the private sector to provide fortified and biofortified food at affordable prices to overcome micronutrient deficiencies among the low-income population, as they are less financially capable of accessing healthy food. Food assistance programs for the vulnerable population are also proposed as a complementary solution. At the community level, food donations from retailers, restaurants, other food processors, and food-sharing initiatives need to be supported to continue to provide healthy foods for low-income communities, as unutilized food surplus turns into waste. Food waste is a loss of economic opportunity and nutritional value for low-income communities. Similarly important are interventions by the Government to ensure food safety and safe storage so that these foods could last longer. Finally, there is also an expectation for the Government to encourage the people both at the individual and community levels in urban areas to produce their own food through urban farming. Organized people working in urban agriculture can take advantage of idle land. Incentives, both fiscal and non-fiscal, need to be provided to those involved in urban agriculture, including the landowners. In addition, the community needs to be able to access the knowledge and technology that are simple, environmentally friendly, and with a circular approach, using little water, which allows narrow land in urban areas to produce a high yield. Read less

Action Track 2: Shifting to sustainable consumption patterns Changes in food consumption patterns have occurred in almost all levels of society. The biggest challenge is the low level of food literacy among the people. Massive advertisement in printed mass media, social media, and television has changed people's views about food. A lot of people have changed their views on food and have a perception that local food is out of date. This type of demand push driven overrides the supply push driven and undermines the need for good and safe nutritious food for their diets As a result, local food cr... Read moreops, such as sago, cassava, and sorghum, have become increasingly unpopular in Indonesia over the past few decades. In addition to the disappearance of local food crops, people's dependence on rice and imported food-based processed food such as wheat is getting higher. Another trend is that changes in consumption patterns have led to a significant increase in obesity and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Processed food that is high in salt, sugar, and fat will put consumers in a disadvantage situation where people have to pay the price for the economic and health costs affected by the increasing occurrence of these NCDs. Ultra-processed food is high in salt, sugar, and fat. Accordingly, people have to pay the price for the economic and health costs affected by these diseases. The 'Isi Piringku' campaign on diversified diets consisting of nutrient-rich sources of food is interesting but not as strong in people's minds as the Empat Sehat dan Lima Sempurna' campaigns that used to be so popular. There is a need for more massive promotion of healthy food with creative communication strategies and the use of communication channels that are well-known to certain audiences. For the youth, for example, healthy food campaigns can take advantage of social media, such as Instagram and TikTok, which are popular among them. At the household level, awareness-raising on healthy food consumption should target both men and women, with women as the main target of the campaign considering that they are the main decision-makers in food procurement. In addition to food literacy, there is also a need to organize public awareness about responsible consumption. Indonesia is known as the second-largest food waste producer in the world. We need to revive the food taboo, as local wisdom, which was once known by almost all ethnic groups in Indonesia, which stated that throwing away food was a disgraceful act. This taboo is no longer remembered or consistently taken into account by the public. New knowledge and technology must be introduced to the public to minimize food waste along with supportive government regulation. The cold supply chain is an unavoidable technology to prevent perishable food, such as fruit, vegetables, meats, into food waste when it is distributed from the production area to the area where consumers are living. This technology is strongly needed considering the low connectivity between regions in Indonesia as an archipelago country. There is an expectation that the Government will reduce excessive attention and intervention on rice and encourage farmers to cultivate local food crops suitable to the character of the individual area and its local tradition and values. There is already a grassroots movement to protect seeds through seed banks, mapping, and planting of local food, including local rice, in several places in Indonesia that can grow well in their native areas without high intervention such as food crops imported from outside. Databases on local food should be strengthened to support these initiatives. Processing and packaging are issues that need to be taken into account so that locally processed food can be accepted by the public. The government needs to provide incentives for these local food producers to develop and be able to introduce their food in the markets. In addition, the government can encourage and provide incentives for the private sector to use local food content along with wheat for the production of instant noodles which are so popular in Indonesia. Read less

Action Track 3: Boost nature-positive production Conversion of agricultural land for food is the biggest issue in Java, which poses a threat to rice supply in the future. The population's dependence on rice is so high that the opening of rice farming land is unavoidable. Existing regulations are not able to protect this conversion process. Rice importation from the international markets is not popular among the people. The opening of new rice land on a large scale in Kalimantan, Sumatra and Papua, for example, is not easy to do. In addition to land that is not as fertile and suitable for rice ... Read moreas in Java, land clearing has the potential for conflict with efforts to reduce deforestation, which is high in Indonesia. Agricultural land in Sumatra, for example, must give up if the same land is to be used as mining land which is considered more economically profitable. Another challenge is that farmers in those areas do not have a similar capacity with rice farmers in Java. The development of new rice land then requires the development of human resource capacity. Instead of prioritizing rice agricultural development, the promotion of local food crops as discussed in other Action Tracks is a possible solution to address this land conversion trend. Excessive use of chemical fertilizers also needs to be taken seriously because it has been proven to have damaged soil fertility as well as environmental sustainability. There is a proposal to shift the subsidies from agricultural inputs, such as chemical fertilizer, to agricultural output, such as fairer and more affordable prices. At a more practical recommendation, new technologies and knowledge to support climate-smart agriculture and to increase productivity and at the same time not to cause environmental degradation as well should be in place to ensure agricultural activities to be more economically viable and environmentally friendly. Read less

Action Track 4: Advance equitable livelihoods Similar to other countries, Indonesian farmers are aging. The development of food agriculture cannot move quickly considering there is a tendency for old farmers to find it difficult to accept new knowledge and technology to increase productivity. The financial institutions and banks are also not interested in working in this agricultural sector. As a result, farmers have difficulty getting credit to develop their businesses. At the same time, not many young people are interested in working in agriculture because it does not provide them with a bet... Read moreter economic future. As mentioned in AT 3, land conversion is an issue. There is a growing perception that the agricultural sector is not as economically viable or profitable as other sectors. Worse, small-holder farmers are marginalized in the food value chain. Accordingly, this situation will threaten the effort to feed the growing population. One possible solution that can make food agriculture more economically profitable and at the same time attract young people is an inclusive business model that encourages collaboration between small-scale farmers and private businesses or state-owned enterprises. An inclusive business model can happen only if small-holder farmers are well organized. Farmer corporations that are managed in a modern way, have large members, and control large areas of land are the basis for partnerships in this inclusive business model. There is an expectation that inclusive business models are able to provide a fairer share or distribution of value for small-holder food producers. On top of that, in the macro perspective, there is also an expectation that the models can contribute to the socio-economic outcome of food systems activities: job creation, poverty alleviation, and reduced inequality. Read less

Action Track 5: Build resilience to vulnerability, shocks, and stress The high dependence on rice makes Indonesia's food systems vulnerable. Low connectivity between islands causes logistics costs to rise dramatically if there is a disrupted distribution from rice production areas to areas where consumers are living due to climate change-affected disasters or the Covid-19 pandemic. As a consequence, low-income people are the most vulnerable people. Infrastructure development is one of the potential solutions. The Government’s intervention to stabilize food prices and food aid is the list of ... Read morepossible solutions to ensure the low-income people access food. Besides, an alternative to rice is another solution. Not only local inland foods such as corn, cassava, sorghum, and sago, do we need to take coastal and marine source foods, such as Gracilaria sp seaweed for analog or artificial rice, into account as healthy alternatives to rice and to contribute to dietary diversity. Accordingly, research and innovation are key for more resilient food systems in Indonesia, the mega biodiversity country in the world. Centre for research and innovation on local seeds is also a proposed solution in this area. Small-holder food producers need protection from The Government against crop failure due to climate change-affected natural disasters, such as floods and drought. At the same time, information on climate change prediction and its mitigation is in place and accessible for them to mitigate. Farmer field school on climate, climate-resilient seeds, knowledge on water drip irrigation for example are in the small-holder farmer’s list of expectations to protect themselves from changing climate and environment. Again, research and innovation will play a key role. In the area of making regions more resilient, we highlighted the importance of marginal land development and revived or strengthened local, community, and individual-based food stocks to increase the food security of the regions. This is an institutional innovation in the area of food governance at the local level. The existing local wisdom, the so-called Gotong Royong in Java, Nganggung in Bangka, Ngayah in Bali, Marsiadapri in North Sumatra, for example, played a key role in the development of community-based food stocks where people help each other both in the normal and difficult times. We also proposed integrated farming including livestock, the protection of local seeds and other germplasm, and promoted local food and industrialization of local food to meet the population’s needs. It needs to empower farmers on sustainable agriculture and climate-smart farming, and other supports such as small-holder farmers' access to capital, technology, and financial services to contribute to the effort to the development of local food industrialization. Within these 5 action tracks focus which can identify various initiatives to formulate good policy recommendations, there seems to be one common need to support formulating good policy for food sustainable food systems which is good and valid data based on rigorous scientific exercise. The complexity of Indonesia will even emphasize more the importance of having good scientific data, facts, and evidence and put it in the higher priority in supporting a strong sustainable food systems policy development for Indonesia. Read less

Cross-cutting Issues Learning from the fresh experience, we proposed both national and sub-national dialogues as an institutional innovation in the area of food governance where stakeholders at the local and national level get engaged meaningfully in the food systems transformation. The Government is also expected to develop a food systems dashboard to real-time monitor the situation at the district level and also provide updated data and information for policy-making processes.

In general, there are some diverse views and different opinions that emerged during the dialogue. These have particularly occurred in the area of prioritized solutions or game-changers to address the existing and future problems, challenges, and opportunities to build and strengthen the resilience of Indonesian food systems. Different opinions also occurred when one stakeholder emphasized the need for land expansion for cultivation to maintain rice supply while another stakeholder tried to prevent deforestation. This is also the case when we discussed food certification. Food safety standard i... Read mores important for consumers, but small and medium enterprises have difficulties in meeting the standard in the area of knowledge and finance. The enforcement of the standards to secure the consumer’s health has negative impacts on the existence of these small and medium enterprises. This is also the case when we discussed the potential roles of the private sector in supporting the marginalized position of small and medium food producers, including small-holder farmers, fisherfolks, to engage in the value chain. Read less

The Sub-National Food Systems Summit Dialogue (FSSD) focuses on the sub-national level to explore more perspectives and inputs from local stakeholders. This is also the process of verification and validation of the result of the first national dialogues in April 2021. Due to its geographical location, the dialogues were organized in six regions: Sumatra, Kalimantan, Java, Sulawesi-Maluku, Bali, and Nusa Tenggara, Papua. This aimed at covering the diversity of food systems in Indonesia as an archipelagic country and enhancing the process of food system regionalization. The objectives of the dia... Read morelogues are: (i) gathering inputs and ideas, as well as share learning and experiences of local stakeholders from six regions on food systems transformation in Indonesia, (ii) validating, verification and justification of the results of the first national dialogues with the local evidence, experiences and best practices, (iii) collecting the ideas and inputs on action areas and game changing solution for food system transformation. The Sub-National Food Systems Dialogues have involved a broad range of stakeholders such as national and subnational government institutions, private sectors and business associations, civil society organizations including small-scale producers and family farming groups, youth, women and consumer organizations, customary communities, and UN-based organizations in Indonesia. The Indonesian FSSDs both at the national and sub-subnational level have been developed as part of the implementation of the national food systems transformation agenda as stated in Law 18/2020 on Food. The law is a regulatory framework to ensure food systems transform in the right direction and make sufficient, affordable, safe, good quality, and nutritionally balanced diets available to all. The Government of Indonesia (GoI) has made bold commitments on food systems, with the Presidential Decree 18/2020 on Mid-term National Development Plan 2020-2024 by establishing food systems transformation as one of the national policy priorities. The Sub-National Food System Dialogues are a holistic, comprehensive and system approach through public participation and multi-stakeholder process to develop national strategy on food system transformation. Similar to the FSSD at the national level, the sub-national level dialogues were organized based on Five Global Action Tracks as a framework in the process and analysis. The Indonesian Sub-National FSSDs have drawn upon the expertise of actors from across Indonesia’s food systems. Based on these tracks, the Indonesian Sub-National FSSDs have provided a purposeful forum for stakeholders to share their views on how to advance progress towards food systems transformation, map their respective roles, identify and minimize potential trade-offs across sectors and intervention, for comprehensive and upscaled results, as well as to identify game-changing solutions that can change the ways in which food systems operate. In other words, the Sub-National FSSDs are a process of multi-stakeholder dialogues to develop pathways of food systems transformation in Indonesia. Read less

El tema principal fue “Motor productivo del Sistema Alimentario Venezolano”. Con atención en la producción de alimentos en el país. Su objetivo es propiciar un espacio plural e incluyente para el intercambio entre los diversos sectores que inciden en el Sistema Alimentario sobre los desafíos y acciones para consolidar la visión sostenible y equitativa, conducente al cumplimiento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) establecidos en la Agenda 2030, para la mejora de la calidad de vida de nuestros pueblos y el cuidado del planeta.

El Diálogo de los Sistemas Alimentarios plantea las acciones que Venezuela como país vanguardista ha implementado para garantizar el avance en la consolidación de los sistemas alimentarios sostenibles, entre las cuales se mencionan: 1. Desarrollo de la industria pescadera innovadora, sustentable y sostenible como vía para la diversificación de la economía nacional. 2. Distribución de los productos de la práctica pesquera y acuícola a través de los programas sociales de la mano de los Comité Locales de Abastecimiento y Producción (CLAP). 3. Descolonización de conceptos, patrones cu... Read morelturales alimentarios de la producción, rescate y preservación de semillas soberanas como modelo para el desarrollo productivo ecosocialista. 4. Planes de acción para el impulso a la siembra en los espacios sin cultivar en la ciudad como medio de producción en la agricultura urbana y familiar 6. Fortalecimiento de los circuitos agro-productivos y sus componentes en los espacios rurales, como vía de desarrollo de capacidades de auto gestión, en los pequeños y medianos productores agrícolas. 7. Impulsar la agricultura urbana y emprendimientos agro productivos, mediante la vuelta al conuco como mecanismo local del auto sustento 8. Fomentar la demanda y consumo de alimentos de alta calidad nutritiva, como medios sostenibles y menor impacto ambiental en la producción alimentaria. 9. Apoyo a los productores locales en el consumo de sus rubros, a precios justos, como vía de solidaridad en la población venezolana. 10. Aumentar la productividad de las tierras agrícolas, como medio de reducir el número de personas en riesgo de padecer hambre y malnutrición. 11. Involucrar a todos los sectores del país en prácticas productivas y administrativas auto gestionadas, como vía que permita consolidar el desarrollo endógena de la economía. Para la consolidación de los Sistemas Alimentarios y seguir en el avance en el fortalecimiento de los roles siguientes: -La República Bolivariana de Venezuela se ha creado a partir de la Constitución de la República, en la cual se consagra la alimentación como un derecho, además de una serie de leyes que van en beneficio de los pequeños productores como la Ley de Tierras, Ley de Semillas, Ley de Pesca, Ley de Seguridad y Soberanía Alimentaria, entre otras, que buscan garantizar el acceso de todos a los medios de producción de alimentos, estas leyes y otras decisiones del Gobierno nacional permiten un importante repunte en la producción de alimentos para la población que contribuye a disminuir la pobreza y a contener la malnutrición derivada de las medidas coercitivas unilaterales que le han aplicado al país con la intención de afectar la seguridad alimentaria de la nación. -Impulsar la autodeterminación y la organización en el cumplimiento efectivo de los artículos 5 y 126 de la Constitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, para lograr la responsabilidad del poder popular organizado en función de asumir su competencia para el control del desarrollo sustentable. -Fortalecimiento de leyes de protección para el sector agrícola y pecuario, dentro de los ámbitos locales y ambientales en construcción de zonas especiales que respondan al modelo socialista de producción. Read less

A partir de las acciones legislativas se ha avanzado en la creación de una amplia y robusta plataforma institucional sumada a otros sectores de la sociedad relacionados con la producción y transformación de alimentos donde destacan redes de organizaciones campesinas, pescadores, agroindustria con enfoque de género y reconociendo los conocimientos ancestrales de nuestros pueblos originarios y desagregada en la dimensión espacio de la geografía nacional, lo que ha hecho posible el diseño, implementación, seguimiento y control de políticas exitosas que proponemos al debate mundial enmarc... Read moreada a las 5 vías de acción, entre la que planteamos: • Fomentar en los territorios el establecimiento de unidades de producción de alimentos aplicando tecnologías amigables con el medio ambiente, como el uso de bio-insumos en los cultivos. • Promover confianza en los nuevos sistemas de producción sostenibles, con lo cual, se garantizará la permanencia del modelo a ejecutar en el tiempo, aun cuando se presenten dificultades de cualquier índole; en el caso de Venezuela, en los últimos veinte años se ha estudiado el disfrute pleno a la alimentación, la vida digna y el papel protagónico del campesinado. Se avanzó en la implementación de políticas de manera concretas en sistemas agroalimentarios sostenibles y sustentables con la creación de una ley de Seguridad Agroalimentaria. • Promover el conuco como una modalidad de consumo sostenible, la cual garantiza la producción de alimentos para una comunidad específica, además de que el impacto en el medio ambiente es controlado. • Cultivar el pensamiento agrícola y de solidaridad en la población, dicho en otra palabras apoyar a los productores locales en el consumo de sus rubros y estos a su vez en establecer precios justos para ambas partes. • Desde las instituciones gubernamentales se impulsa la autodeterminación y la organización como cumplimiento efectivo de los artículos 5 y 126 de la Constitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, para lograr la responsabilidad del poder popular organizado en función de asumir su competencia para el control del desarrollo sustentable. • Fortalecimiento de leyes de protección para el sector agrícola y pecuario, dentro de los ámbitos locales y ambientales en construcción de Zonas Económicas Especiales” en Venezuela que respondan al modelo socialista de producción. • Aumentar de forma sostenible la productividad de las tierras agrícolas existentes constituyendo la mejor opción para evitar fuertes subidas de los precios de los alimentos, mejorar las economías rurales y los medios de vida de los agricultores y reducir el número de personas en riesgo de padecer hambre y malnutrición. • La actual guerra económica y el bloqueo existente en nuestro país, obliga a nuestro sistema productivo a trabajar y orientar hacia la producción de la diversificación de rubros; para poder mantener en el tiempo la producción, se debe hacer uso de manera eficiente de los recursos agua y suelo como elementos esenciales dentro de la producción, debemos implementar el establecimiento de policultivos y debemos orientar a los productores acerca de la importancia de generar valor agregado a los cultivos con la transformación de la materia prima. Read less

No hubo áreas de divergencias, ya que hubo consenso en la mayoría de las conclusiones, adoptando un gran nivel en la discusión y puntos de vistas planteados

No hubo áreas de divergencias, ya que hubo consenso en la mayoría de las conclusiones, adoptando un gran nivel en la discusión y puntos de vistas planteados

El tema principal fue Sistema Alimentario justo, equitativo y amigable con el medio ambiente. Enfoque venezolano Considerando el ambiente suelo, afluyentes de agua como primer medio dador de los alimentos necesarios para garantizar la nutrición al pueblo y generaciones futuras.

El Diálogo de los Sistemas Alimentarios justo, equitativo y amigable con el medio ambiente propone acciones que permitirán continuar con los avances de Venezuela en la concreción de los sistemas alimentarios sostenibles, entre las cuales se mencionan: 1. Fortalecer el aprovechamiento sustentable de la diversidad y apoyo de programas de consumos ecológicos. 2. Intensificar el impulso de tácticas ancestrales de la agricultura indígena, la agricultura campesina, la pesca ancestral y otra forma de producción con equidad y respeto a la naturaleza. 3. Fortalecer la agro-ecología, el aprovech... Read moreamiento ecológico, social, político y cultural que sean sustentables para la diversidad biológica, es decir, promover la economía desde las perspectivas ecológicas para el desarrollo social. Impulsar la producción favorable de alimentos cuidando la naturaleza, optimizando los recursos ambientales y la producción, procesamiento de los alimentos que garantizan la reducción de la pérdida de la diversidad, disminuir los niveles de contaminación en el uso del agua, la degradación del suelo, erupción de los gases efectos invernaderos, esto es uso racional de tierras, recursos naturales, la biodiversidad y los componentes. De esta manera favorecer las oportunidades de los pequeños y medianos productores incorporados en toda la cadena agroalimentaria, tomando los principios de solidaridad, cooperativismo, equidad y justicia social, a fin de optimizar los recursos ambientales, reducir la pérdida de la biodiversidad y desarrollar una agricultura que sea agroecológica y sustentable. Para la consolidación de los Sistemas Alimentarios se avanza en el fortalecimiento de los roles siguientes: 1. El Ejecutivo Nacional quien articula con las gobernaciones y alcaldías, promueve el intercambio de productos e insumos agrícolas. Su objetivo primordial en el caso de los sistemas alimentarios sostenibles es incentivar la investigación, el desarrollo, extensión, avances de la tecnología para el esquema de una agroecología que sea sustentable y que garantice las necesidades alimentarias del país. Analiza las potencialidades de cada uno de los territorios del país mejorando la producción, conservación, transformación, transporte, intercambio, distribución y el análisis de los alimentos, así como la inversión en la investigación que resguarde la salud, preservación del ambiente y sus componentes orientados al desarrollo sostenible. 2. La Asamblea Nacional se encarga de realizar la legislación, participación social, gestión, regulación y el control de las políticas públicas agroalimentarias a fin de seguir impulsando que el contenido de la Ley de Plan de la Patria se cumpla en lo referente al cuidado del planeta. 3. Universidades públicas y privadas del país que cada una posean carreras relacionadas a la agronomía o a la agricultura para aplicar investigación en la planificación de la política agroalimentaria, para el desarrollo de sistemas alimentarios productivos que promuevan la conservación, optimización del uso de los recursos naturales renovables y la relación entre la preservación del ambiente y sus componentes. 4. La participación de los actores fundamentales de los sistemas agro productivos organizados en consejos campesinos, consejos comunales, comando forestales, asamblea agrarias en la regulación y el control de las políticas públicas relacionadas con los sistemas alimentarios sostenibles. Los consejos campesinos fomentan la cultura alimentaria, la plantación social y la distribución de los productos agroalimentarios de manera justa y equitativa. Los Comité locales de abastecimiento y producción (CLAP) junto con consejos comunales que sus objetivos es de impulsar la conformación y creación de las redes de producción territorial de alimentos saludables para la consolidación de los sistemas alimentarios sostenibles. En este diálogo adicionalmente se presentaron los logros del Ministerio del Poder Popular para el Ecosocialismo vinculado con el Sistema alimentario y medio ambiente sostenible, a saber: - El establecimiento de las metas de neutralización y degradación de la tierra como una contribución fundamental para sustentar la funciones y servicios de los ecosistemas e incrementar la seguridad alimentaria. - Puesta en marcha de los Comités de Coordinación Nacional de lucha contra la desertificación, la elaboración de la estrategia nacional de sequía y el fortalecimiento del Plan de Forestación, y aumento del nivel de siembra y plantación. - La Instalación de los comando forestales aplicados desde hace 5 años en conjunto con el Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Justicia y Seguridad Ciudadana que contribuirá a la biodiversidad. - Diseño de re-inversión de la zona andina en la producción de café y cacao, como en otras regiones del país. - Actualización en el marco ambiental con la elaboración legal de la Ley del Suelo. Proyecto de ley y normativa de la responsabilidad extendida en el sistema productor. - Conexión con la plantación de viveros con las comunidades que fortalecen la producción. Read less

El grupo coincidió en las siguientes respuestas 1° ¿Cómo pueden lograrse Sistemas Alimentarios Sostenibles en el mundo que sean justos equitativos y amigables con el planeta orientado y conectado con la ODS y la agenda 2030? Para garantizar sistemas alimentarios la experiencia venezolana ha mostrado buenas prácticas con el impulso de experiencias tecnológicas tradicionales que aseguren la biodiversidad del acceso al agua, la tierra y los recursos genéticos, dignificando el trabajo del campo para el desarrollo económico, garantizando el papel protagónico de los campesinos y las campesi... Read morenas, además de mejorar las condiciones de acceso que garanticen los derechos humanos a los campesinos y la vida digna. Read less

2. ¿Cuáles acciones que contribuirá a continuar con los avances de Venezuela en la concreción de los Sistemas Alimentarios Sostenibles basados en 5 vías de acción. Que están propuestas -Intensificar acciones que aseguren los SISTEMAS ALIMENTARIOS SOSTENIBLES basados en los cuatro componentes fundamentales: el ambiente, los recursos, la producción agrícola y necesidades de las poblaciones. - Fortalecer la producción agrícola y su procesamiento que garantice su distribución a la población para que la misma tenga el acceso de los productos nutritivos, seguros, variados, precios justo... Read mores y productos de manera responsable con el ambiente. - Mantener las políticas de seguridad alimentaria, nutrición para todos y todas, basados en alimentos saludables. - Garantizar la seguridad alimentaria cuyos procesos no generen un efecto negativo en las bases ambientales para las futuras generaciones, orientando consumo conscientes sobre la higiene, disponibilidad de agua, minimizar los productos procesados, disminución del consumo de sal, azúcares y grasas, minimizar desechos alimentarios, así como utilizar los productos relacionados directamente con la producción agrícola del país. 3. En relación a las acciones se deben implementar para disminuir en la incidencia negativa en la pandemia COVID 19 en el tema de la producción, acceso, distribución, comercialización, y consumo de alimentos. • El Ejecutivo Nacional de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, en sus competencias primordial ha establecido la Ley Orgánica de Seguridad y Soberanía agroalimentaria, en el artículo 24 prevé las políticas de contingencia cuando lo considere necesario para garantizar los principales consumos de alimentos. • Priorizar los productos agrícolas y su consumo relacionado, tomando en cuenta la estructura agrícola por agro regiones como medidas de contingencia que permite la regulación de los mercados de alimentos productivos e insumos agrícolas. Basado en producción, distribución, comercialización y consumó de alimentos privilegiando las cadenas de distribución local. Read less

The 2nd National Dialogue had a broad and comprehensive focus on priorities, pathways, and commitments for developing transparent, responsible, and sustainable food systems in Vietnam. The first area of focus for the Dialogue was for the Government of Vietnam, and MARD to present: 1. an overview of Vietnams preparations for participation in the Food Systems Summit (FSS); 2. a summary of key outcomes of the 1st National and three Sub-National Dialogues; and 3. Present proposed priorities and pathways for food systems in Vietnam. The second focus area was an opportunity for key invited stakehold... Read moreers to express their views, interests,and commitments for working together to achieve a transparent, responsible and sustainable food systems in Vietnam. These views were supplemented by inputs and comments from online participants. The level of Government commitment attributed to the UNFSS process was evidenced by opening remarks provided by the Deputy Prime-Minister Mr. Phạm Bình Minh. This set the scene and provided an overview of Vietnam’s vision and pathway for food system transformation. Opening remarks were also provide by Mr. Kamal Malhotra, the UN Resident Coordinator, and Ms. Carolyn Turk, the World Bank Country Director, who both chaired the 2nd National Dialogue together with the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Mr. Le Minh Hoan. The keynote presentation was provided by Mr. Le Duc Thinh, the Director General, Department of Cooperatives and Rural Development (DCRD), MARD. This presentation provided an overview of Vietnam’s participating in the Food Systems Summit, a summary of the key outcomes from the synthesis of the 1st National Dialogue and three Sub-National Dialogues and an overview of some possible cross-cutting priorities and pathways for food systems in Vietnam. The synthesis of challenges and opportunities from the1st National and three Sub-National Dialogues, explicitly addressed the five Action Tracks. The synthesis of stakeholder inputs was provided as a summary report to Dialogue participants. During the 2nd Dialogue, most stakeholder input addressed cross-cutting themes, links between various Action Tracks issues and key change levers. See findings and outcomes below. Eighteen invited senior representatives from national ministries and provincial governments, county embassies, international research and development organisations, NGO’s and senior experts express their view about priorities, areas of mutual benefit, potential collaboration and commitments to working with Vietnam to achieve responsible and sustainable food systems. See the summary of their inputs in the Discussion Outcomes sections below. Finally, concluding and closing remarks were provided by the UN Resident Coordinator, the World Bank Country Director and Mr. Lê Minh Hoan, the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). Read less

The opening remarks of Deputy Prime-Minister Mr. Phạm Bình Minh and conclusions of Mr. Lê Minh Hoan, the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) respectively laid out the vision of Vietnam’s proposed pathway for food system transformation by 2030to ensure access to safe, nutritious and balanced food for its population of 100 million people, and become a transparent, responsible and sustainable food producer and supplier, making bold contribution to global food security. Several initiatives and key interventions were proposed: i) Scale up farmer-market linkage innovations, e... Read morespecially those initiated and built up from the ground namely “our garden”. This model is considered the best practice, which strengthens partnership between farmers and other actors, especially consumers, and promotes integration of multiple values in food value chains such as quality, culture, green, inclusiveness, transparency, accountability and sustainability through co-creation, co-ownership and co-responsibility principles. Such creative initiatives can serve as building blocks for all actors in the food system to share values, responsibilities, actions and benefits across economic, social and environmental dimensions; ii) Intensify research and development and transfer of technology in response to demands of businesses and requirements for the development of transparent, responsible and sustainable food systems; enhance cooperation and assistance in study, forecasting and building of disaster, disease risk warning, and integrated management systems with credit and livelihood support packages in the context of Covid-19, climate change and agricultural diseases and pests; Promote the digital transformation and develop the digital economy in agriculture by encouraging firms and farmers to apply digital technology to their production and value chain management processes, including agricultural services. The digital transformation will go hand in hand with the green transformation and will be closely linked to the institutional innovation process in order to develop integrated food systems with multiple values, including economic, cultural, social, landscape and environmental ones; iii) Strengthen domestic and international innovation networks. Specifically, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has been and will intensify its partnership with the World Economic Forum to promote the Initiatives on “Food Innovation Hub in Asia” and “100 Million Farmers Initiative: Transitioning towards net-zero, nature-positive food systems”. MARD has also participated in “the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate initiative” initiated by the United States and the United Arab Emirates. In addition, MARD has made a joint statement on “Agriculture development and sustainable food system for the monsoon tropics” initiated by Japan together with some other ASEAN countries; iv) Viet Nam defines that its Food systems need to be transformed into “green”, sustainable and low-emission direction. Due attention should be given to eco-friendly and climate smart agricultural production. Viet Nam aims at advancing low-emission and sustainable agricultural development, and strives to reach net-zero emissions. Viet Nam also considers this an opportunity to promote “green” growth/circular economy and the development of new “green” products, services and jobs; v) Formulate and update the national food balance sheet as the basis for production and distribution; at the same time, intensify education and awareness-raising to promote more healthy and nutritionally balanced eating habits for all, and reduce food loss and food waste, to shift to more healthy, sustainable, and responsible consumption patterns; vi) Enhance the collaboration and information sharing in sustainable management of natural and water resources, including trans-boundary water resources, marine resources and South-South cooperation. At a high level, it appears to be strong alignment, between the Government’s vision, pathways and priorities, and commitments of food system actors as well as other stakeholders. The most frequent and common issues to Viet Nam, raised by stakeholders includes the imminent seriousness of the climate change crisis, and the market viability. These form major challenges and critical impact on food security, sustainable livelihoods of smallholder farmers as well as poor people and other vulnerable groups. Inclusive and equitable transformation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and rapid transition towards a low carbon “green economy” whilst ensuring inclusive growth and protection of the environment and vulnerable groups was a repeated theme. Another area of broad consensus was the importance for better inter- and intra-institutional and sector collaboration and coordination. Particularly between National and Provincial Government Ministries and Departments, but also with and between the private sector, research and development organisations and civil society. Vietnam recognizes the need to take concrete actions to promote cooperation, create additional external forces to support the formation and development of a smart food system adapted to climate change and sustainability, ensuring food security and nutrition not only for nearly 100 million Vietnamese people but also contributing to ensuring world food security. Particularly in the complicated context of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The food systems framework provides a multidisciplinary and multi-level cooperation approach in line with Vietnam's current action prog Read less

Below are a summary views, ideas, and responses to the discussion questions about proposed food systems transformation solutions and pathways provided by National and Provincial Government stakeholders, industry associations and the private sector to the 2nd National Dialogue. • The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) outlined Vietnam’s achievements towards Sustainable Development Goals 2030. The first national five-year progress report towards SDG goals (recorded prior to the outbreak covid-19) show that Vietnam is likely to reach five out of seventeen targets by year 2030. These in... Read moreclude Goal 1 and Goal 2, which are directly related to the food and nutrition system. Whilst Vietnam has improved food production and national food security, reduced hunger across the country, and doubled income in rural areas a lot more work remains to be done. Better coordination between stakeholders is needed, along with financial support and technology transfer from development partners. The impact of COVID-19 is expected to increase the prevalence of extreme poverty. To withstand serious long-term impacts of the pandemic, it is essential to strengthen food production systems to ensure food security, especially for poor households, vulnerable people and reduce inequality in society. Increasing resilience to climate change, and strengthening orientation of small farmers towards sustainability, higher quality, and value of agricultural products are also priorities. Finally, the application of improved technologies, strengthening value chain linkages between producers and consumers, and better support farmer’s organisations, particularly cooperatives is required. • The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT)is committed to the development of transparent, responsible, and sustainable food systems in Vietnam. MOIT will work closely with the Ministry of Agriculture and other Ministries, Departments, as well as businesses and industry associations to achieve these outcomes. A key development is a new agreement between MARD and MOIT signed on July 13. This facilitates greater coordination across the production, processing and export of agricultural products, with the broad aim to intensify production and promote Vietnamese agricultural products and brands in the domestic and international markets. A cross-Ministry task force will work on seven solution areas: 1. Agriculture intensification and modernization; 2. Promoting market-oriented production; 3. Removal of trade barriers and taxes; 4. Trade promotion of Vietnamese agricultural and fishery product brands to overseas markets; 5. Support for local production of specialized agricultural products; 6. Improve management of illegal markets, trade fraud and counterfeit goods; and 7. Improve quality and safety of agricultural products. • The National Institution of Nutrition (NIN) within the Ministry of Health (MOH) described that in Vietnam today, uneven food distribution, rapidly changing consumption patterns and increasingly unhealthy diets are creating a serious double burden of malnutrition. This includes the persistent problem of undernourishment and micronutrient deficiency, particularly amongst children in mountainous and ethnic minority communities. The other problem is increasingly unhealthy diets amongst urban consumers, including increasing consumption of meat, salt and sugary foods which are driving up rates of overweight and obesity, particularly in children. Linked to this is the higher incidence of cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus and cancer, and associated deaths. In a new initiative MOH and MARD will coordinate to develop regional food balance sheets to identify local food accessibility and supply gaps to better coordinate local food production, rather than just focus on productivity. • The United Nations key overall message from the UN Resident Coordinator was that the 2nd National Dialogue has shown the UNFSS is extremely important, timely and critical, and deserves the attention of Heads of State level in September. FAO and all other UN agencies will continue to support Vietnam’s active participation in the Summit. Vietnam has an important contribution to make i Read less