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The main finding was a subsequent meeting asked for between two of the breakout tables, so that duplication is not taking place within the work we are doing and the national body of work being done. Please see our IAFSD Summary Report March 2022.

Please see our IAFSD Summary Report March 2022.

Some participants expressed concern that this would not provide immediate assistance for smallholders.

This Dialogue represents a collaboration with smallholder farmers on their policy priorities that should be included in a call to action to stand with smallholder farmers and be accountable for tangible results. The call to action, which will be circulated for sign on from all stakeholders, will encourage policy makers to recognize the critical role smallholders play as entrepreneurs in building sustainable and resilient food systems. Smallholders are at the center of local, national, and regional food systems but they continually face food insecurity and poor nutrition.

The Dialogue confirmed that smallholders want and need farmer-facing policies of which farmers contribute to the formulations and implementation. We continue to hear calls for more productive partnerships, access to direct funding, equal opportunities for and inclusion of women, increased market access, strengthening of farmer organizations, increased investments in mitigation and adaptation strategies, and data suited to smallholders’ needs.

On the Farm This breakout session focused on the types of policies, interventions and services that are needed to support small-scale farmers improve the production capacity of their farms in light of the challenges they face. The discussion in this room highlighted the need for support for commercialization including direct financing, inclusion of smallholder farmers at planning and implementation stages of policy, and partnerships with diverse actors. In addition, smallholders will experience the brunt of climate change land conservation partnerships to protect farmers’ land and biodiversi... Lire la suitety will allow the combination of outside and farmer expertise. Finally, agricultural activities need to be modernized and mechanized to entice youth. Lire moins

Food on the Move The breakout session will focus on the challenges small-scale farmers face accessing markets and food value chains. This topic concluded that there is a lack of representation of farmers who need more platforms and better networks to collaborate with governments, investors, and the private sector. Farmers will need to think of themselves as profitable entrepreneurs that are part of a bigger system. Improved access to pricing information, equipment, and other capacity building techniques will help them fulfill this role. Women and youth face more barriers which make it even mor... Lire la suitee difficult for them to establish themselves in the food system. Strengthening farmer organizations can allow farmers of all kinds to increase their power as actors in the value chain. Lire moins

Empowering the Excluded This breakout session will focus on the support that small-scale farmers need to reduce poverty and food insecurity, increase education, and strengthen capacity. These goals can be reached through direct financing to ensure that funds are used as intended and in the best interest of the farmer. Partnerships can create an enabling environment of good policies that support smallholders as well as provide education and training on how to maximize resources and knowledge. Farmers are aware of environmental changes and the challenges they will pose. They require climate smar... Lire la suitet support to adapt. Ultimately, structures dedicated to advocacy can ensure there is follow up for all smallholder farmer-related work. Lire moins

For Opening We tried to remember : Global trends ✓ Global warming ✓ Climate change ✓ Global freezing ✓ Sea level rise ✓ Emission ✓ Poverty and starvation Regional trends ❖ Pollution ❖ The extinction of species ❖ Deforestation and degradation ❖ Depletion of natural resources ❖ Poverty and starvation Local trends ➢ River pollution ➢ Domestic waste ➢ Flooding ➢ Reducing biodiversity ➢ Depletion of natural resources ➢ Shortage of food stuff Human ecology: historical-cultural evidence (Prehistoric Era) such as : 1. Paleolitic : When: 600k y.a. (late Pleistocene) Ty... Lire la suitepe of culture: Pacitanian • Hand axe • Flakes Ngandongian • Animal bone tools Human: • Meganthropus paleojavanicus • Pithecanthropus erectus • Homo soloensis Mesolitic : When: 10k y.a. (Holocene) Where: Sumatera, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Flores, etc. Type of culture: • Hunting and gathering • Nomad and semi- nomad, cave shelters • unpolished stone and bone tools • Rock art (religion?) • Kjokkenmodinger • Grinding stone Human: Homo sapiens Neolitic : When: 3,000 BC-4 AD Where: Sumatera, Java, Bali, Borneo, Celebes, Moluccas, Papuan, etc. Type of culture: • Food producing (domestication and agriculture) • Polished stone • Earthenware (pottery) • Jewelry • etc Human: Homo sapiens sapiens Human Ecology: Cultivation ecology (alternative) • Shifting cultivation/outer island agriculture • Depend on fallow land (masa bera) and forest • Social stratification and communalism • Homogeny and closed community Local Security Food: Changing mindset ? • Indonesia consist of many local culture and unique ecology • Adaptability and socially acceptable • ‘Move from rice to other staple food’ (Artocarpus sp., Metroxylon sp., etc) • Diversified substitute plants and food (e.g. agroforestry with terracing system) • Develop home-garden intercropping system • Develop hydroponic, vertical garden and rooftop garden in urban area Lire moins

Human Ecology: coastal ecology (alternative) • Community develop skill and technology to adapt in coastal environment • Depend on season • Social stratification and communalism • Heterogenic and open Human Ecology: Vegetable-garden ecology (alternative) • Dominated by vegetables crop • Pesticide booming and intensified agriculture • Social stratification and communalism • Heterogenic and opened society The homegarden provides benefits for the household and the environment. o Carbon density obtained from plants and soil o Biodiversity of various types of plants ,additional nutri... Lire la suiteents and income by selling crops and livestock . o Site recycling with household compost and open space for drying the crops. Lire moins

during dialogue many participant suggest ethnic diet and ethnic food guideline so that they can share with family member and make short food system chain. Fast food still exist, but indigenous and local food more valuable for sustainable gastronomy and future food with innovation. Four Participants interested to create home garden with polyculture system and permaculture. We signed Social Movement to get more impact from food heritage with hashtag (#FridayBackToLocalFood) (#SaturdayGardening)

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Session Objective: • Identifying solutions to overcoming barriers to technologically supported regenerative agriculture transition This dialogue was curated to discuss the following: • Highlighting challenges with resilience in agricultural business, implementation of innovative solutions, and barriers in adopting technological and market solutions. • Identify solutions for the implementation of, and improved access to innovative, inclusive, fair, and sustainable development for all. • Describe ideas towards constructive, inclusive and mutual cooperation and partnership between researc... Lire la suitehers, farmers, and government along the value chain. • Determine key areas of action towards more resilient, fair, social, and healthy food systems. Main findings of the dialogue: The Independent Dialogue was participatory and participants came from different institutional and stakeholder groups to deliberate on the future of food and suggested actions towards transnational food systems adopting new technologies, leveraging existing solutions and blending action best impact standards with society approach for inclusive participation to achieving The Objectives of The Food Systems Summit and overall objective of SDG 2 while sustaining the planet, promoting innovation, improving global food safety and conserving natural resources through adaptive use of resources (SDG 12). The discussion also addressed specific interconnected SDGs and suggested actions to adopting best impact standards in the food systems value chain and across all other action tracks. Lire moins

Issues addressed in the Main Session Discussions - One of the issues in Africa and other (developing) countries is that the governments promise subsidies for innovations, also in times of this pandemic. However, money doesn't reach the farmers efficiently and gets stuck somewhere in the top-down process. A solution for this is a system where the subsidies can be monitored or controlled, maybe via cooperatives or larger farmers communities to get a stronger voice compared to all the smallholder farms individually. Another issue is digital traceability. Now it is unclear where products that cons... Lire la suiteumers buy exactly come from. With a passport (for example a QR-code) on a product, you create certain transparency on where a product comes from and what it contains. With a clear view of the production chain and ingredients of a product, the consumers will be more aware of what they buy. In both issues, block chain can offer major benefits by improving transparency. - Often technology is developed outside of the country where it is intended to be used. Most of the farmers know the context in which they work than most of the technology developers. Farmers also have a different idea of priorities and problems that can be supported with technology. This creates trust issues and a lack of adoption of technology. In addition, in big countries, farms can be found in regions all over the country, which all deal with different climate conditions. When new technologies are introduced in farming within these countries, it might be wise to adapt training for the farmers on their specific region. As the climate conditions might affect how to implement a certain technology in your work. Look in this to new business models and co-creation in the process of technology development. It is important to work with the rest of the supply chain and investment should also be in training local people with skills to manufacture, repair and maintain the technology. Making these solutions locally-led and adaptive are great practices and building multi-actor partnerships and strengthening links between different actors (including farmers, supply/value chain actors, local and national government, private sector, financial institutions, telecommunications providers, research institutions etc. Lire moins

What solutions already exist on AgTech Innovation, Digital Transformation in disaster and risk prevention for a resilient and shockproof food system? 1. We need to address the growing demand for food while using significantly fewer resources 2. Climate-smart practices are being used to combat disasters a. Most farmers are practicing agroforestry and other methodology with positive results 3. FinTech solution for inclusive social coverage and financial inclusion to rural farmers a. Normally it takes many months for repayment. Now with mobile technology and weather forecasting, insurance firms o... Lire la suiter governmental insurance firms can pay quicker (by verification of GPS and sending confirmed pictures) 4. Agro-meteorological advisory through mobile apps (Seasonal Rainfall Prediction) 5. Normally farmers grow in Ghana what they are used to plant 6. Information could tell climate trends for the community 7. Information could inform about market trends 8. For example, one has a Major and Minor season in Ghana. Farmers grow paddy stable crops and additional vegetable crops like big onions but require not heavy rain 9. Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning to predict best crops on best soils by aggregating relevant databases from satellites, soil measures, weather stations. 10. Soil measurements for higher quality (biodiversity, carbon, nutrient content). Higher carbon content will help to retain the water, which is good for heavy rain or droughts. 11. Blockchain for food monitoring and traceability via blockchain and sealed products. 12. Agrovoltaics solutions for energy-efficient solutions like irrigation systems, biomass processing and growing biofertilizers 13. Food visibility by blockchain for confirming the flow of products. This improves food safety away from bulk products and could link to consumers that can pay higher. Lire moins

There was some discussion on trust in technology. Although most believe that small-holders but also other stakeholders want to stick to what they know and that there is lack of education. However, another problem that was addressed was that most often technology is produced somewhere else and then most money goes to marketing and not educating the people in the areas to use the technology or maintain it. Also, the technologies often do not prioritize the main problem because it is not developed in co-cooperation with the community. Internet entrance was mentioned as a crucial point to empower ... Lire la suitesmall-holder farmers. However, the main question is how to make internet accessible to them. More research is needed on this. More research is needed on new business models and effective ways for co-operation in the process of technology development. It is not only education, but also working together and understanding main priorities in the food community. Lire moins

Group 2: Technology The group discussion started with a case study based on Gravity Goods Ropeways (GGR) in Nepal and explained about how route based technology was used to transport goods and how it really helped all the stakeholders in that particular ecosystem. The group discussed how and what technologies can help in improving diets of low-income households in Asia, with communities’ engagement. The main feedback and insight include: ⁻ The group discussed that there is no one-size-fits-all model and it depends on each case. ⁻ The group participants shared various technologies, for ex... Lire la suiteample, a lot of digitization models are there to enable access of nutritious food to people. ⁻ It was also mentioned that the right technology is very important and that has to be supported by government. Hence, the role of government and policy is equally important for application of technology. All aspects are equally important and they have to be looked at together and support is needed from all stakeholders. ⁻ Further, a lot of participants also shared innovative ideas. They discussed about AI based technologies which have been used today to access to sufficient and nutritious food. ⁻ In terms of social media, one of the participants shared how social media like Instagram can be used to deliver specific nutritious food. ⁻ The importance of crop insurance was discussed. It was also highlighted to provide good networks to farmers at the ground level, so that they can also reach out to technologies predicting crop weather. ⁻ Grid systems were also discussed which has a lot of bearing on the utilization. The break-out group discussion was moderated by the facilitator through inviting participants to provide ideas or share information to the specific questions designed. Below we summarized the key feedback received from the participants during the group discussions. Q1: What type of technologies can help in improving diets of low-income households in Asia? 1. Clean Energy can enable access power and also can lead to other development outcomes. 2. A great Equalizer, e.g. Micro-hydropower in Nepal. Q2: What techs used so that farmers can sell their produce online? 1. In the context of Nepal, at the moment, there are not many ways to do so for the farmers. It is hard to have access to electricity and mobile networks, in the case of high hills. Farmers can be indirectly helped by market actors and the government agencies. Q3: Are there any specific technologies that can be upscaled to a larger context in Asia? 1. Clean electricity can be upscaled to a larger context in South East Asia via Hydroelectricity. 2. Meteorological technologies such as Agri Drones can be upscaled for the benefit of the farmers. It would result in optimum usage of inputs in farms not only helping the farmers but the soil as well. 3. While digitization provides some benefit to farmers, but they have least power in the supply chain. Most of the income in the sector is directed towards market intermediaries and other players in the supply chain rather than the farmers. 4. Usage of social media. 5. Crop Insurance assisted by satellite monitoring. 6. AI and IOTs can be upscaled for the benefit of food consumption. Decentralized approach can be adopted in order to scale up. 7. Digitization models: Access to safe and nutritious foods must be emphasized in South Asia. Q4: How can communities better participate in benefit from technologies and improve their nutritional security? 1. Help of cooperatives and other local community groups to reach grassroots. 2. Focus should go towards marketing that encourage healthy eating practices. For example, in Kyrgyzstan, app to develop Nutritious meal planning for families. 3. Business analytics can be used to understand the market. Manipulation, monitoring of relevant parameters can be used to improve demand. 4. Data collected showed that consumers tend to choose healthier local alternatives when informed about the available foods, through a promotion of Local foods via android apps in Canada. Such strategies can be adopted in order to promote traditional or neglected foods to improve food security. Lire moins

Group 3: Policy The group discussion started with a case study presentation from Bhutan. Bhutan is facing challenges and barriers of climatic change and terrain. The country is working on a five-year plan focusing on water, food and nutrition security. Government is one of the major stakeholders. Still the country has some very great policies of the school feeding programs running in the country. The importance of bringing the safe food for the children were highlighted. The group discussed what and how policy initiatives drive sustainable food consumption. The main feedback and insight includ... Lire la suitee: ⁻ It was noted that farmers should be incentivized to produce nutritious crops such as fruits and vegetables and animal based foods. For these crops, pricing policy is very important and this is especially in case of highly perishable foods. ⁻ The group discussed that governments should help farmers to get adequate price for the high risk crops. ⁻ Up skilling the capacity of the extension workers and knowledge dissemination about healthy foods were mentioned by most participants. ⁻ Digital literacy of farmers and consumers is equally important. The good infrastructure to support the farmers were also highlighted in the discussion. ⁻ The two components to be taken care of by the policymakers for healthy diets emphasized by the group were: 1) accessibility to all and; 2) supporting farmers in crop diversification. The break-out group discussion was moderated by the facilitator through inviting participants to provide ideas or share information to the specific questions designed. Below we summarized the key feedback received from the participants during the group discussions. Q1. What policy initiatives that drive the transition towards improved food consumption in Asia? 1. Incentivizing farmers for switching to healthy food production 2. Pricing policy. Fruit and vegetable consumption has not increased to an optimum level which is the direct result of lack of availability and affordability along with production, shared by one participant. One participant laid focused upon lack of economic access in India of fruits and vegetables. 3. Adequate Storage 4. Road Infrastructure for connecting the farmers with the market 5. Taking both ‘farm to fork’ and ‘fork to farm’ approach - working with farmers and consumers 6. Food labelling 7. One participant shared a policy case in China. China issued a new food safety law in 2015 to ensure improved better food production, distribution and inspection and reduce food waste. 8. Regional diversity must be acknowledged in implementing local food policies. Q2: Do feeding programmes for children an effective measure for improved nutrition and better development of children? 1. It is a good initiative but not sure how much reaches to the children and how much somewhere else. How to make that effective is the question. Lire moins

Group 4: Capacity building and awareness The session started with a case study on the Anganwadi work that is being done in Rajasthan. It is an excellent insight about how it is done at the localized level, and capacity building at the grass-root level is so important to ensure the malnutrition levels come down and create much more awareness. It also shows that women empowerment is an overarching intervention across and how it has helped. The group discussion encapsulated the whole umbrella of the different kinds of stakeholders at different levels, and the kind of capacity building programs an... Lire la suited the awareness at each level at a systemic and a personal level. The main feedback and insight include: ⁻ At the consumption level, the group discussed how it is important for the learnings from the research community to come to the community level and how it can be practiced further, so that it can enhance the nutritional levels and also revive some of the traditional knowledge that already exists. ⁻ There were also some very interesting studies on reducing food waste shared, for example a study done in China which use data to create awareness on reducing food waste among restaurants and consumers. Throughout, it was discussed how it is extremely important not just for the government to take up initiative, but also for different stakeholders from bottom to up to start these kinds of dialogues and initiatives. ⁻ Further, participants shared how social media is used to reach out to more people like minded people who would want to come and volunteer. Although those are not formal structures, the kinds of informal structures also play very important roles in creating awareness, and eventually help one realize that there's a need for capacity building of these kinds of people who want to contribute at their own personal levels. The break-out group discussion was moderated by the facilitator through inviting participants to provide ideas or share information to the specific questions designed. Below we summarized the key feedback received from the participants during the group discussions. Q1: Who are the key stakeholders? 1. Local government sectors, 2. Researchers, 3. Tourism Sectors (Homestays) 4. Youth Organizations 5. Mid-day meal relevant stakeholders Q2: Briefly, what are the key areas of a capacity building required to shift wards healthy and sustainable diets in your geographical region and hence your country? And what type of capacity building programmes can facilitate this shift? 1. Sensitize the local communities about the nutritional value about the local landraces which are actually said to be Nutri-densed food. 2. Capacity building especially for the younger generation. 3. Women's agency and training on nutrition. 4. Training incentivizing farmers for switching to healthy food production. 5. Digital literacy for the farmers is very important. Q3: What are the areas in which awareness programmes are needed to shift towards healthy and sustainable diets in Asia? And what type of awareness programmes can facilitate this shift? 1. Benefiting from the local resources which are easily available around the region. 2. Promote local food which can help the local communities in improving economy as well as improve the nutrition in their daily diet. 3. Media especially social media influences food choices. Leveraging media for bringing about behavioral change. 4. Awareness must be spread among Low Income and Marginalized groups. Lire moins

The EU-funded SWITCH-Asia programme aims at supporting the development of green economy and the transition towards a low-carbon, resource-efficient and a more circular economy in Asia promoting economic growth while decoupling it from environmental degradation. The SWITCH-Asia Regional Policy Advocacy Component (RPAC), implemented by United Nations Environment Programme, is designed to strengthen the dialogue at regional, sub-regional and national policies on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and thereby contributing to green growth and reduction of poverty in Asia. In spite of the ... Lire la suitefact that Asia is the largest contributor of global food production, yet it is home to a large portion of the world’s poor, hungry and food insecure people. Food accessibility remains one of key challenges in the region especially among the low income households. There is rapid urbanization over large parts of Asia and currently about 50% of the population lives in urban area. Studies have shown that urbanization influences both quantity and diversity of food consumption (Bhartendu et al., 2020) while risks such as climate change, natural disasters, price volatility, etc., impacts the food accessibility of the lower income households. In Asia, increasing food consumption by a growing population, together with changing dietary habits, poses an immense challenge for the global food system and is associated with health and environmental impacts, such as diseases due to unhealthy diets, increasing use of harmful chemicals to increase production, and increasing food wastage. Shifting to more sustainable food consumption patterns would greatly contribute to food systems transition in the context of Asia towards a sustainable, equitable, resilient and nutritious food system. Improving access to food and facilitating a transition towards healthier and sustainable diet is an essential aspect of green growth and sustainable development in the region. Policy and evidence-based, regenerative, innovative and technological solutions is urgently needed across Asia to overcome the diversity of problems that exist in meeting the challenges of food systems transformation. A Sub-Regional Dialogue: Promoting Sustainable Food Consumption in Southeast and Northeast Asia through Farm-to-Fork Concept, held by RPAC in partnership with Asian Institute of Technology on 14 September 2021, shared insights on food consumption patterns, policies and ways towards sustainable food consumption in Asia. Among which, healthy and nutritious diets for the vulnerable population were highlighted as one of priority areas in Asia to transform food consumption patterns, while technology, innovation, and policy were addressed as important tools. In this context, RPAC in partnership with the TERI School of Advanced Studies and AIT organized the Regional Dialogue - Promoting Sustainable Food Consumption and Shift to Healthy Diets in Asia through Farm to Fork Concept, held on 27 Jan. 2020 virtually via Zoom. The dialogue was based on the concept of Farm-to-Fork and further discussed sustainable food consumption with focuses on ensuring healthy and sustainable diets for the low-income households, with key stakeholders and experts in the region to gather first hand insights. Practical enablers, challenges and sollutions towards sustainable food consumption and healthy diets in Asia were shared through panel discussion and case studies, followed by detailed break-out group discussions. The dialogue documented the farm to folk strategy, addressed the challenges of sustainable food systems, and recognized the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies and healthy planet. It was highlighted that the regional dialogue on promoting sustainable food consumption and the shift to healthy diets in Asia is timely and will help in better understanding and identifying various mechanisms to which the shift to healthy diets can take place. Lire moins