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The major strength of this dialogue is the Breakout session in which all the participants and panelists discuss openly about the pros and cons of the food system and good suggestions come out of the discussions . One of them is adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture and marketing of locally produced food in E-Market platform.

The major findings are 1. Active participation of individuals of all capacities across the Globe 2. Open discussions on sustainable food value chain and the reasons of breakage 3. exact data about the financial loss to farmers(small/large) due to broken food supply chain 4. Role of Government to restore the damaged system not only giving subsidy but also need to be proactive in establishing the broken system through financial benefit as well as promotion of nature based solutions Globally. 5. Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture is the need of the hour so as to face the challenges of climate ... Read morechange starting from production to storage and marketing 6. Promotion of locally produced food material be given preference in E Marketing 7. Development of Rural sector should be focused as a National Agenda and empowerment of Women, Youth and People living with Disabilities should given priority. 8. Linkage of Academia/Research/Students to the Broken Food System should be established with proper planning Read less

The main focus of the dialogue are 1. To get a database 2. To analyze the effects of Pandemic on Food Value Chain 3. To know the extent of broken food system 4. Focus on Rural development through Climate Smart Agriculture 5. To get some positive suggestions regarding restoration of broken food system

Participants and panelists are not agreed on the issue related to various Government policies on subsidy as according to them by giving subsidy in chemical fertilizers, farmers are not interested to Organic fertilizers as they get chemical easily which is not good for sustainable agriculture.

The main outcome of the discussion is to aware all sectors starting from individual, women, youth about nature based solutions through ecosystem services.

The key fidings are 1. Promotion of Ecosystem Services 2. Involvement of Academia/Students/Research/Scientific communities in the awareness process about nature based solutions 3. Promotion of Organic farming and sustainable waste management 4. Identification of major ecosystem services provided by indigenous tribal agroecosystem 5. Preservation of indigenous practices for sustainable agriculture.

The major focus of the dialogue is to 1. invite resource persons from various Asian countries like Nepal, Bhutan, Cambodia, Bangladesh, India so that true outcome can be accessed. 2. Scientific exploration about modern research on Ecosystem Services by statistical means 3. To know various nature based solutions utilized in various countries for the Food security 4. How to exploit holistically the various Ecosystem services/Nature based solutions

Some participants also raised an issue relating to the awareness and literacy among women farmers and in that respect they commented that the involvement of students of School/College/University in spreading the awareness and to educate the women youth about various advanced technology related to climate change resilience and food processing, storage and marketing.

The women who are devoting their maximum time and energy in food production, processing, marketing and also in preparing good and nutritious food should be given proper justice and they should come to limelight by Government by providing them proper training and financial security.

The main findings is that, women should be provided with a suitable ecosystem for their involvement in agriculture and allied aspects. Also they should be financially sufficient to run their own agribusiness starting from production to marketing. Another most important aspect is that women farmers should be given authority on land on which they are dependent and working day and night so as to produce good and qualitative food.

The outcomes of the dialogue are as follows 1. There is an unanimous voice raised by all panelists and participants is that women are neglected in every respect starting from Participation, land holding and training about agriculture and allied aspects 2. Women are not financially independent 3. They are not properly trained about climate resilience 4. In one word it can be said that "They are exploited" 5. Some agripreneur who have attended also commented on various issues related to their role in Nation building and Food Security