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1) Adoption of active measures to encourage sustainable production and national food consumption and reduce the consumption of food products with a negative impact on the nutritional situation of the population The CPLP Member States have not been immune to the global trend of increasing dissociation between people’s eating habits and local production: the growing dependence on globalised food chains contributes to the change in the nutritional and health profile of their people, increasing overweight and obesity, diabetes, and other food-related chronic diseases. In this regard, the Member ... Read moreStates: • Recommend the reinforcement of actions to strengthen national family farming, including specific legislation, national registries of producers, and measures for their positive discrimination in the access to financial resources and public markets. Within the framework of the CPLP, such actions shall reinforce the commitments of the Community celebrated in the Lisbon Charter, in the Guidelines for the Support and Promotion of Family Agriculture in the Member States, in the Declaration of Rights of Peasants and other people living in Rural Areas (2018) and other commitments made in the UN Decade of Family Farming (https://www.cplp.org/id-5004.aspx); • Recommend financing for food and nutrition education actions and adopting fiscal policy measures for the reduction of consumption of ultra-processed foods with a negative impact on health. The adoption of these policies aims at reducing health costs borne by the States that result from the increase in the prevalence of diseases related to inadequate nutrition by promoting domestic production of quality food and improve diets of groups in a situation of greater vulnerability to malnutrition. 2) Development of cross-sectoral national programmes to promote sustainable territorial Food Systems and healthy diets The CPLP Member States recognise the multidimensional and multi-level (local-national-international) nature of the challenges currently posed to promoting a sustainable food system. They also recognise the need to implement intersectoral or even multi-sectoral policies and programmes to promote sustainable territorial Food Systems and healthy diets. Given the transversal nature of FSN, these policies and programmes should involve health, education, agriculture, environment, economy, and tourism, among others, in a coordinated manner. Therefore, there is the need to work at various territorial levels to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions. In this regard, and based on the lessons learned from the pilot initiatives developed under the CPLP Initiative to Promote Food Systems and Healthy Diets, they recommend: • Integrated actions involving several territorial levels to strengthen capacities of young people and rural women for entrepreneurship in sustainable food systems; increasing sustainable food production; reduction of food waste; risk reduction; diversification and greater access to markets (urban, quality, public procurement) for smaller producers; strengthening and decentralisation of food purchases for national food, health, and school nutrition programs; positive discrimination in public procurement from local farmers using sustainable methods and producing food with better nutritional quality; reinforcement of research and innovation based on traditional and scientific knowledge; reinforcement of rural extension to producers and support their access to fundamental goods and services including land, water, credit, education, and health, among others necessary in each particular context; • Expand joint initiatives to promote sustainable territorial Food Systems in all Member States. These initiatives will include pilot programs to promote sustainable territorial Food Systems and healthy diets, considering each national context and contemplating its means of financing. These actions will make it possible to improve coordination between public actors and to strengthen farmers' capacities and consumers' knowledge. It will also generate lessons learned to enhance policies and programs discussions within National Food Security and Nutrition Councils Read less

The CPLP Member States recognise a lack of progress in reducing hunger and malnutrition in all its forms due to an array of factors which call for a transformation of Food Systems. They also recognise several paths to build resilience, to overcome the driving forces of this situation and help transform Food Systems. Any path requires adequate governance, a multidisciplinary approach and coherent sets of complementary policies and investments, determined within the framework of public institutions created for this purpose, with the participation of all relevant actors. For this reason, a priori... Read morety issue for the transformation of the Food System is the need to reinforce its governance architecture at different territorial levels, with greater coherence in the actions involving its subsystems, i.e., agrifood, environment, health, and social protection at the different levels of political and operational decision-making (local, national, regional, and global). CPLP Food Security and Nutrition Strategy (ESAN-CPLP) framework has already implemented a coherent architecture for the governance of the Food System at the Community level. Read less

Territorial approach and governance for the transformation of Food Systems The CPLP Member States recognise a lack of progress in reducing hunger and malnutrition in all its forms due to an array of factors which call for a transformation of Food Systems. They also recognise several paths to build resilience, to overcome the driving forces of this situation and help transform Food Systems. Any path requires adequate governance, a multidisciplinary approach and coherent sets of complementary policies and investments, determined within the framework of public institutions created for this purpos... Read moree, with the participation of all relevant actors. For this reason, a priority issue for the transformation of the Food System is the need to reinforce its governance architecture at different territorial levels, with greater coherence in the actions involving its subsystems, i.e., agrifood, environment, health, and social protection at the different levels of political and operational decision-making (local, national, regional, and global). CPLP Food Security and Nutrition Strategy (ESAN-CPLP) framework has already implemented a coherent architecture for the governance of the Food System at the Community level. In this regard, the CPLP Member States: • Recommend a territorial approach to food systems governance in national policies, programs, and projects related to the five lines of action of the Summit, namely: i) ensuring access to safe and nutritious food for all; ii) shift to sustainable consumption patterns; iii) boost nature positive production; iv) promote equitable livelihoods and build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks, and stress; • Emphasise the importance of a multi-level architecture for the governance of the Food System, centered on the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and on supranational, national, and local platforms articulated within the framework of the decentralisation processes underway in most countries. This inclusive, multi-level, and multi-actor architecture reaching different levels, actors, and spaces can help to strengthen the coordination, coherence, and alignment of policies and programs for more sustainable Food Systems while building trust and security through inclusive solutions; • Promote more significant involvement of local authorities in the construction of local food policies and Food System governance mechanisms, considering the relevant role of cities and the new relationships between urban and rural areas. Read less