Turkey - Stage 3
Major focus
Major focus of the dialogue was receiving the opinions of the representatives of the largest businesses operating in food industry on the most problematic areas, solution suggestions and concreate action proposals under five action tracks to transform and improve food systems towards achievement of Sustainable Development Goals with the perspectives of the business community. Business Council for Sustainable Development Turkey (BCSD Turkey) was founded under the leadership of 13 private sector entities. The council accepts only corporate membership. BCSD Turkey is the local network and partner
... Read more of World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Turkey, and it is in a strong cooperation with its parent organization. After the pre-discussion meeting with the BCSD Turkey, on providing info on and potential contribution to transformation of sustainable food systems and the Summit, 6 members of BCSD Turkey filled out the online survey form prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, which operates in Bilecik, İstanbul, Adana, Bursa and Eskişehir provinces of Turkey. They recommended the total number of 14 problems and over 25 solutions and actions for five action tracks. The status of the BCSD Turkey members filling out the survey form are multinational corporation, INC. (incorporated company), Company Union and Holding. They briefly operate in the area of beverage, sales and marketing; food and beverage, retail, sales and marketing, personal care industry; food and beverages, sales and marketing; food and special products for babies; industry based on agriculture and food sectors. The following simple open-ended questions were questioned in the survey form to the stakeholders. These are For which action track are you filling out this form? Under action track you have chosen please indicate your problem as a brief text Under action track you have chosen, please define the problem. Please explain solution recommendations for the problem you have defined. According to solutions you have explained, please suggest max 3 concreate actions Stakeholders were requested to fill out this form for maximum three problems, three solutions and actions. The results were analyzed with the appropriate quantitative methods along with the descriptive statistics and simple spatial analysis. The result report was prepared for this survey and the others and made a synthesis. Similar findings were obtained from different target groups. Read less
Action Track(s): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Keywords: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment