Concertation Indépendante Fomentando la Resiliencia en los Sistemas Alimentarios Latinoamericanos: Lecciones Aprendidas en Crisis y Soluciones Hacia la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional Sostenible Cible géographique: Sans cible géographique Main findings Varios temas y patrones se observaron durante la sesión de recapitulación de las discusiones de los grupos. Con respecto a las vulnerabilidades y fortalezas observadas en el sistema alimentario durante la pandemia, se mencionó que no estuvimos preparados para enfrentar este tipo de crisis, y que a futuro, se debería tener planes nacionales de prevención, respuesta y acción para el funcionamiento de los sistemas alimentarios y salvaguardar la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de las poblaciones. Un resultado de la crisis fue la adaptación e innovación a varias escalas, en la grande, m... Lire la suiteediana y pequeña empresa. En varios contextos, hubo mucha dependencia en unas pocas y grandes empresas que, al sufrir las consecuencias de las restricciones y los cambios en los mercados, afectaron el sistema alimentario de forma significativa. Esta es una de las razones por la que se recomienda la diversificación dentro del sistema y sus actores. Se recalcó también la necesidad de invertir en la educación y capacitación, con enfoque en los pequeños productores, para que puedan innovar y acceder a las nuevas tecnologías. Un tema muy importante fue la necesidad de mejorar la vinculación entre los varios grupos de interés: productores, academia, sector privado, gobierno y la sociedad civil con vista hacia la creación de sistemas alimentarios resilientes y sostenibles. Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 4, 5 Mots-clés : Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy
Concertation Indépendante Fomentando la Resiliencia en los Sistemas Alimentarios Latinoamericanos: Lecciones Aprendidas en Crisis y Soluciones Hacia la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional Sostenible Cible géographique: Sans cible géographique Major focus El Diálogo se tituló como, “Fomentando la Resiliencia en los Sistemas Alimentarios Latinoamericanos: Lecciones Aprendidas en Crisis y Soluciones Hacia la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional Sostenible.” El tema principal así fue el fomento de la resiliencia en los sistemas alimentarios a nivel regional y nacional a partir de las lecciones aprendidas durante estos tiempos de crisis y el planteamiento de soluciones y compromisos que nos ayuden a construir sistemas alimentarios más resilientes, equitativos, diversos y sostenibles. Para los grupos se desglosó el tema principal en tres tem... Lire la suiteas de debate: 1) Lecciones Aprendidas en Tiempos de Crisis: Las crisis recientes han probado la resiliencia de nuestros sistemas alimentarios, mostrándonos áreas débiles que necesitan inversión y transformación, áreas fuertes que necesitan protección y crecimiento, y cómo los diversos actores del sistema pueden unir esfuerzos y trabajar hacia la reactivación, la resiliencia, y la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de todas las poblaciones. Las siguientes fueras las preguntas de discusión del tema #1: a. ¿En qué áreas del sistema alimentario observamos debilidades y/o fortalezas durante la(s) reciente(s) crisis? b. ¿Qué respuestas se pusieron en práctica que funcionaron, o no funcionaron, para la reactivación del sistema y la provisión de alimentos? c. ¿Qué hemos aprendido de las crisis y qué acciones a futuro podemos tomar? 2) Sistemas Alimentarios Robustos, Equitativos y Sostenibles: Todos tenemos un rol y ponemos de nuestra parte para crear sistemas alimentarios robustos, equitativos y sostenibles que provean ingresos justos para los agricultores y trabajadores del sistema, y que aseguren la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de todos, con atención especial hacia las poblaciones más vulnerables. Las siguientes fueras las preguntas de discusión del tema #2: a. ¿Qué áreas del sistema necesitan más atención en este tema? b. ¿Cuál es nuestro rol y el de las entidades a las que pertenecemos? c. ¿Qué soluciones proponemos y qué acciones nos comprometemos a poner en práctica, tanto a corto y largo plazo? 3) Transformación hacia Sistemas Alimentarios Diversos y Sostenibles: Los sistemas alimentarios transformados hacen posible una producción más diversa y sostenible, que regenere nuestra base de recursos naturales y proteja nuestra biodiversidad, y al mismo tiempo provea una alimentación diversa que supla las necesidades nutricionales de nuestras poblaciones presentes y futuras. Las siguientes fueras las preguntas de discusión del tema #3: a. ¿Qué áreas del sistema alimentario necesitan transformación hacia la sostenibilidad? b. ¿Cómo podemos proteger y regenerar nuestra base de recursos naturales y biodiversidad? c. ¿Qué soluciones proponemos y qué acciones nos comprometemos a poner en práctica, a corto y largo plazo? Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Mots-clés : Environment and Climate, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
Concertation Indépendante Elevating Community Voices in Development and Humanitarian Aid Cible géographique: Sans cible géographique Area of divergence None
Concertation Indépendante Elevating Community Voices in Development and Humanitarian Aid Cible géographique: Sans cible géographique Discussion topic outcome - Need to be conscious of complexities in how individuals interact with food systems and deal with food insecurity- there is heterogeneity of vulnerability, and we need to look at it at different levels (community, household, and individual) - Need to provide farmers with education on managing risk where it be weather, conflict, currency fluctuations, etc- to make systems more resilient there needs to be more understanding of what the risks are and their impacts in the short, medium, and long term. - Real change needs happen at the local level especially in conflict areas- component of basic s... Lire la suitetart up support as well as education - Need to move from basic caloric intake needed to live to providing full/balanced nutrition and diverse diets with fruits and vegetable - Protracted crisis and conflict change food systems fundamentally, but we treat them as temporary; development is possible in areas experiencing protracted conflict, but local leadership is critical - Should adapt weather-related risk management systems to conflict and have financial services that can work where there is a lot of uncertainty. - Need early warning systems for other types of uncertainty than famine and some weather challenges Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 5 Mots-clés : Environment and Climate, Governance, Policy
Concertation Indépendante Elevating Community Voices in Development and Humanitarian Aid Cible géographique: Sans cible géographique Discussion topic outcome - Smaller, local farmers lack access to quality seeds/support and markets- need for regulations to ensure small holder farmers have access to the right resources both to consume as well as sell to their communities - Farmers get discouraged because of low prices and exploitation- having access to quality inputs at fair costs would allow them to also sell at appropriate prices (affordable for consumers, profitable for sellers) - High value crops are prioritized at the expense of other crops due to market forces - Western countries dictate what lower income countries receive through food aid, di... Lire la suitesturbs the market system; bulk buying and reliance on WFP exploits local farmers. - In Uganda, we need to organize farmers into unions so that individuals are not selling individually but as farmer unions who can collectively bargain for better prices - In Uganda, young people avoid agriculture because they consider it not profitable and are selling land to move to city- try to connect youth with older generations to show that you can have a farm and an office job - and that profit is possible; use SBCC with having peer to peer conversations that can show success stories and impact - Promoting Technology in agriculture would demonstrate that it is possible to make a profit by saving time and cost and makes it more attractive to the youth - In the US, youth not really involved in farming unless they grew up doing it as part of a family business - certain neighborhoods should start household cultivation. Each member of the community would have 1 type of plant (herb, fruit, vegetable) and then the community members would trade to sustain themselves - Role of government and how they can influence the system - COVID 19 as an opportunity to highlight the importance of local food systems and encouraging households to grow their own foods - Encouraging food sovereignty and the food as a right and not just a commodity Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 4 Mots-clés : Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Women & Youth Empowerment
Concertation Indépendante Elevating Community Voices in Development and Humanitarian Aid Cible géographique: Sans cible géographique Discussion topic outcome - Concerned about the quality of food (in terms of vitamins and nutrients) being donated and distributed through local food pantries in the US - need more locally sourced food through a compression and decentralization of supply chains - Growth of healthy corner farmers on 1/10 of an acre plots to create food oases in food deserts in the US; step beyond the idea of healthy corner stores selling more fruits and vegetables to grounding production in the community (healthy corner farmers rather than healthy corner stores); use of hydroponic farms for production - In Nigeria, internally displaced ... Lire la suitepersons (IDP) farmers have limited access to farmland, so home gardens and home animal raising is key to surviving offseason produce price spikes, when the community is dependent on transported foods. - Use of Tom Brown, a nutritious porridge made of millet, corn, sorghum, soya, and groundnuts, to feed malnourished children with locally sourced food in Nigeria - Mobile food markets in the US can reduce numbers of those living in food deserts, but the need must be mapped out first - Concerned by the wasted food production in Nigeria fueled by transportation, store, and preservation problems- for tomatoes, for instance, the population faces seasonal price spikes because there is no way to preserve the tomatoes; logistics are the key in avoiding off-season produce price spikes. - Childhood traumas/adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), often influence whether people eat healthily or desire fast foods and often correlates with diet-related disease, given the role of stress-related cortisol in cravings for high-fat foods Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 2, 5 Mots-clés : Data & Evidence, Human rights
Concertation Indépendante Elevating Community Voices in Development and Humanitarian Aid Cible géographique: Sans cible géographique Discussion topic outcome - There are politics involved in ending hunger and inequities- leads to trade-offs, such as focusing on scaling up production, using non-organic fertilizers that harm soil health, and large scale producers instead of smallholder farmers - Water scarcity a major issue of hunger - Need to scale up innovative practices, such as the use of wastewater and fecal sludge in the growing system, which could assist in the affordability of fertilizer; could also learn from other regions with water scarcity - We must include the community, as they are the ones impacted by hunger and directly impacted by cl... Lire la suiteimate change- community should be educated on climate change so they can advocate and provide accountability. - We need to replenish indigenous crops and recognize the value of traditional methods of agriculture - How will we incentivize or recognize farmers for using conservation agriculture? - The humanitarian / development communities need to ask themselves if their work is creating cycles of dependency - Women and youth need to be empowered more, especially when it comes to livestock ownership to improve nutrition outcomes and where youth can serve in the value chain - Direct food relief should not be used as a long-term solution, we need to be looking at empowerment models that encourage local self-reliance Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 3 Mots-clés : Environment and Climate, Human rights, Innovation, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment
Concertation Indépendante Elevating Community Voices in Development and Humanitarian Aid Cible géographique: Sans cible géographique Main findings - Build agency of local leadership and strengthen local food systems through the promotion of indigenous crops and traditional forms of agriculture - Complement traditional agriculture techniques with conservation and climate-smart agriculture techniques that are accessible to all local communities. - Ensure smallholder farmers have access to quality inputs and resources to grow for their own consumption and sell at prices that allow them to live adequately - Empower women and youth to be directly engaged with agriculture value chains and improve market access for both income generation and nu... Lire la suitetrition outcomes - Ensure that foreign assistance truly supports communities in becoming resilient and self-sufficient rather than perpetually dependent on aid Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Mots-clés : Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Policy, Women & Youth Empowerment
Concertation Indépendante Elevating Community Voices in Development and Humanitarian Aid Cible géographique: Sans cible géographique Major focus The focus of our Dialogue was to help elevate the voices of those who are most directly impacted by development and humanitarian initiatives. It was open to development and humanitarian implementers, local leaders, and community members, as well as field and extension officers, national and local governments, and companies interested in providing contextual perspectives for how humanitarian and development strategies impact communities. Our purpose was to encourage a diverse and expansive pool of voices to help improve the representation and empowerment of local leadership in influencing the S... Lire la suiteDG goals. Therefore, the Dialogue was an exploration of food systems in the development and humanitarian context and was intentionally open to discussion topics related to all five Action Tracks to allow people to bring their own interests and individual roles within the food system to the table. Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Mots-clés : Governance, Human rights
Ghana - Étape 1 NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON GHANA’S FOOD SYSTEMS: DEVELOPING A RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED NUTRITON SECURITY Area of divergence • Painting a gloomy and weak outlook of the Ghanaian regulatory sector, some dialogue participants noted that food retailers do not adhere to safe practices resulting in microbial contamination, and foodborne diseases. A representative of the Ghanaian Regulatory Sector argued that this dismal outlook may not be based on facts – contaminants could be due to poor hygiene and food handling and not organic contaminants. Another participant disagreed and cited local news evidence to support the claim of poor safety and the failure of the retail and regulatory sector to address this. • On the ... Lire la suiteuse of the term unhealthy, not nutritious, a participant indicated that every food is nutritious, but maybe not balanced and that it is advisable to use the phrase “not balanced” rather than “not nutritious”. • A dialogue participant noted that there are political and structural gaps that continue to fight against Ghana’s development. He further noted that decentralization is a complete failure and that federal governance of the food system should be considered. Another participant vehemently disagreed. “I think what the last speaker said, is 100% true. I will say it is rather better now since it has been decentralized. We are rolling out a lot of things. With the metropolitan, municipal, district assemblies, there are some challenges but it is not widespread. A lot of MMDCE are also supporting and prioritizing agriculture.” • Responding to a recommendation to promote use of hermetic bags, a participant noted that hermetic bags, and traditional silos, have been used in the past and have not yielded the results. So, what more do we need to do to address the existing challenges with food storage? he quizzed. Although effective, the holding capacity of traditional silos is a problem. There is a need to expand the capacity of the silos to store produce adequately. Some of these traditional silos can hold only up to 10 bags. Additionally, the cost of hermetic bags (@15 cedis for one bag) does not encourage its use. Consider the price for a farmer requiring 100 or more of these bags. The local bags are about 3 cedis per bag but do not protect against pests; hence there is the need to subsidize hermetic bags to promote use. • On policy on food importation, a participant emphasized the need for a government policy on importation of foods grown locally in Ghana and enforcement of the policy. However, others noted that given Government's commitments towards AfCFTA, trade restrictions may not be practical. It would be more practical to promote a culture of consuming locally. • The issue of conservation agriculture was also debated. A participant from Tanzania argued that conservation agriculture is a new technology, but other participant disagreed and stated that it’s already practiced by farmers and that only some newly introduced practices that have made it a more topical issue now. • Though participants held different views on the type of farming systems in Ghana, i.e., subsistence and commercial, in the end, it was agreed that both systems are important in our attempt to achieve food and nutrition security, as well as environmental sustainability, and emphasis placed on improving and making them better and sustainable. Some participants argued for monocropping to improve the efficiency of production. Others, however, argued that monocropping is a problem in sustainability. “We should not be concerned with only economic sustainability. It is important to emphasize social and environmental sustainability as well. Mixed cropping and mixed farming systems can ensure all three types of sustainability if practiced well (scientifically). Mixed cropping and mixed farming ensures diversity of foodstuffs and thus important for both food security and nutrition security (food and nutrition security)” Lire moins
Ghana - Étape 1 NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON GHANA’S FOOD SYSTEMS: DEVELOPING A RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED NUTRITON SECURITY Discussion topic outcome DISCUSSION TOPIC 5: Actions to ensure resilience of the Ghanaian food system Short-Medium Term actions • We need to move to an all-year-round production system using modern systems. Focus on developing policies that will move us to seasonal production to all-year-round production. • Build data on actors in the food systems value chain, their profile, and location and determine tailored needs and actions given the risks. • Improve the storage systems, especially producer capacity to store harvest for later release on to the market. • Funds should be made available by government and othe... Lire la suiter donors to purchase modern equipment for production, processing, and storage. • The need to digitize our food system using artificial intelligence, blockchain farming, hydroponics etc. The extent of digitization has major impact on resilience. • Identification of food security hotspot in Ghana will play very vital role in responding swiftly. • Invest in researching into how we can use modern technology to improve resilience in the food systems. • Agriculture affects climate change and is also affected by climate change. So crop production processes that impact climate change must be addressed. Support those farmers who adopt farming methods that are environmentally friendly. • Revamp our irrigation systems to adapt to climate change effects to produce all year round. Promote organic farming. • Insurance packages tailored toward the resilience of all players in the food chain will be another step in making our food system resilient. • Employ technologies targeted at fruit and vegetable, which are seasonal and perishable to increase the shelf life by employing packaging environments that help to produce safe and quality food for the short to medium term. Long Term Actions • Promote greenhouse farming among the youth in modernization of production systems • Consider innovative financing models to better support food system resilience • Agriculture affects climate change and is also affected by climate change, so crop production processes that impact climate change must be addressed. Support those farmers who adopt farming methods that are environmentally friendly. • Promote Government-Private Partnership where private partners would be engaged to handle areas where Government cannot. E.g. Government financing infrastructural projects-irrigation, silos, etc., and the private sector partaking in the distribution of farm produce in time or marketing. Development partners can also do the same as earlier mentioned. Additionally, they can partner with our research institutions to research more on our food systems and develop more improved seedlings, etc. • Government to create an enabling environment through designing favourable policies and strategies. Government can develop more support in terms of incentives, security for those starting their own business and making sure that any type of information and education on innovating their business and using new technologies for farming and marketing. • Government needs to provide incentives or some form of financial security for farmers. Most farmers are not business savvy, they go through middlemen to sell their produce, thus making them poorer. • The government should establish criteria for responsible agricultural investment so that PPP can be effective, and all players stand a chance of benefitting. • Government should make a budgetary allocation to support regular testing of food throughout the food chain especially those run by public institutions to ensure food safety and food security • We need a systems approach in dealing with food waste and increasing efficiency at each stage • Government needs to improve road networks to help transport food. • The private sector should adopt inclusive business operation models across the production, processing, and marketing segments of the food system. e.g. they can have good pro-poor financing mechanisms to support the actors in the food system • Funding and technical support also from development partners • Development partners need to work with government to understand our cultural issues to able to have an impact on our food system. Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 5
Ghana - Étape 1 NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON GHANA’S FOOD SYSTEMS: DEVELOPING A RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED NUTRITON SECURITY Discussion topic outcome DISCUSSION TOPIC 4: Examination of inequalities within the Ghanaian food systems • Government should consider the deployment of mobile agricultural extension services in the digitization drive to attract the youth and make agricultural extension services readily available to all persons in need on time • Agriculture should be made attractive to youth; with innovations and education. For instance, seminars and training on agriculture; animal rearing, food production, and food processing as well as product enhancing will make agriculture attractive to the youth • Farming should be encourag... Lire la suiteed as a professional career from the lower educational levels through to the higher level. This will encourage more people to have the desire and passion to go into farming • Increasing opportunities for youth and women’s direct access to land, production credit, agricultural inputs, technology, technical information on improved agricultural practices, and marketing outlets • Training is geared more toward men but government and DPs should reach women farmers directly rather than training their husbands on the assumption that they will convey the skills to their spouses. • Institutional innovations such as promoting group approach to agricultural investment and cooperative structures to ensure everybody wins • In terms of inequalities in the access to premix by small SMEs, Government should consider subsidy or removal of import taxes to help make nutritious processed food products more affordable and available. • There should be deliberate efforts to engage and involve (tertiary) students of agriculture in the design and implementation of solutions to address some of the issues affecting food systems in Ghana e.g. through projects • Government should buy or subsidize lands purposely for agricultural purposes and engage policy revision/shift in consultation with traditional holders to address land tenure challenges for easier direct access by women and youth • Regions with high hunger index and malnutrition should have a land tenure system that will support the production food crops rather than cash crops • Government should promote irrigation, especially during dry seasons to improve food production • There should be more diverse ways of supporting small scale farmers with equipment as well as capacity strengthening on the best use of equipment to enhance production in the food system and subsidies, funding and input support should target the small and medium scale producers • Improving access to post-harvest technologies such as cold chains to reduce postharvest losses, especially during seasons of glut, and improve traditional production/processing/preparation technologies for competitiveness • Government should help in setting up common unit prices of farm produce for local processors and a different common unit price for foreign processors or buyers to help encourage and motivate local processors. Industrial food processors should not be allowed to dictate food prices • A policy should be enacted to provide incentives e.g. Subsidies to processors who site their firms in the rural areas especially where the road network is not good • Fixing of railway and road networks to promote agricultural activities and reduce losses in transit from the hinterland and link production sites to markets. Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 4
Ghana - Étape 1 NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON GHANA’S FOOD SYSTEMS: DEVELOPING A RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED NUTRITON SECURITY Discussion topic outcome DISCUSSION TOPIC 3: Ensuring sustainable nature positive production in the Ghanaian food system The majority of Dialogue participants agree that Ghana’s food production system was not capable of ensuring sustainable food and nutrition security for the people. They identified factors that mitigate positive production as follows: • Lack of promotion (by government-sponsored programmes and projects) of small farmer production systems which enhance planetary health and are climate-smart, nutrition-sensitive, and inclusive. • Poor infrastructure especially bad road network in rural areas resu... Lire la suitelting in poor market access, low prices in producing areas but high prices in urban centres. • Absence of land use planning leading to inappropriate application of technologies and poor use of natural resources • Poor coordination, collaboration, and support among actors along the food value chain leading to high costs of activities at all levels of the chain. • Lack of appropriate mechanization facilities and equipment • Inadequate and inappropriate storage facilities leading to high postharvest losses • Anti-environmental practices that destroy the natural resources and some species (crops and livestock) such as deforestation, bush fires, use of destructive agrochemicals • Poor decentralization and distribution of resources as well as implementation of policy to the grassroots level • Lack of and/or inadequate localized irrigation systems and high cost of irrigation equipment. • Unattractive conditions and incentives in the agriculture sector Dialogue participants suggested approaches to ensure positive production in Ghana’s food system • Greater emphasis by government and development partners on improving productivity of diverse locally produced foodstuffs. • Scientific improvements of small farmer production systems to make them more climate-smart and resilient. • Adopting appropriate, diverse and improved farming practices, techniques to increase food production and productivity • Improve our storage systems to reduce postharvest losses. Also, it was suggested that future research innovations should focus on exploring food radiation • Avoid anti-environmental activities that destroy the natural resources and species (crops and livestock) • Well-developed land use policy and planning. Land use planning is important for appropriate application of relevant technologies. Also, information (data) on the potentials of different soils and what crops should be grown on which land will increase production and all-year farming. • Improved irrigation systems by government and the private sectors and emphasis on the localization of irrigation infrastructure and governance. • Increase incentives to make agriculture attractive (branding) especially to the youth, and to attract more investments into the sector. There is a need for appropriate and adequate branding of agriculture to make it attractive to the youth. Communication experts should be used to properly brand agriculture positively. • The need for planned or appropriate mechanization in agriculture • Improve smallholder farming in Ghana by encouraging site and crop-specific fertilizer usage. • Proper identification and selection of good varieties of crop seeds and the breeds of animal • Development of agronomic protocols. For instance, the current fertilizer recommendation for maize was developed many years back during the operation feed yourself era. However, in recent times more efficient fertilizers have been produced and need to be communicated to the right users. • Innovative research and strategies into controlling pests and diseases that affect crops and animals Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 3
Ghana - Étape 1 NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON GHANA’S FOOD SYSTEMS: DEVELOPING A RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED NUTRITON SECURITY Discussion topic outcome DISCUSSION TOPIC 2: Factors that affect healthy and sustainable food consumption in Ghana Dialogue participants identified the following: • Influx of cheap, but unhealthy imported foods • Food fraud (which includes adulteration, substitution, dilution, tampering, counterfeiting and misrepresentation of the ingredients of food or composition of food). A local challenge has been the adulteration of palm oil with Sudan IV dye, and tomato paste with starch rather than tomato concentrate • Chemicalization of foods from farm to fork and port: Inappropriate uses of various chemicals by food sys... Lire la suitetems actors • Unhealthy foods are cheaper than healthy foods and consumers tend to buy foods they can afford, and these are mostly cheap unhealthy foods. • Risk of contamination/cooking methods and duration: For instance, some people add paracetamol when cooking cowpea to cook faster. • Bad fishing practices and trans-shipment of fish: (these have an impact on the sustainability of fish resources). • Food waste and loss – significant post-harvest losses Dialogue participants suggested innovations and new approaches to address the above persistent problems • Use of hermetic bags for the storage of cereals and legumes to reduce post-harvest losses. Government could subsidize the price of these hermetic bags • Introduce warehousing systems or storage facilities at the time of bumper harvest: Produce could be bought from farmers and properly stored and used during the lean season. • Encourage the use of traditional silos built using earth and straw grass to store maize and millet, and other produce: When produce is stored in these environmentally friendly traditional silos, they could last for more than a year without pests. • Encourage dry season farming using existing resources. • Encourage home gardening especially in urban centres, construct tanks or poly tanks at homes to harvest rainwater for the purpose. Dialogue participants suggested approaches for sustainable promotion and consumption of nutrient-rich and safe food • The language used in communicating healthy and nutrient-rich food should not be abstract. • Intensify nutrition education in school curricula: Include nutrition education in the curriculum of children at all levels of education (from kindergarten through tertiary level) as children are change agents. • Inclusion of men/heads of household in nutrition education discussions: Heads of families/ include men in the discussions. • Involvement of the media: There should be regular education on multiple media channels (radio, TV, print media, social media) on nutrition • Promote culturally appropriate indigenous foods that are nutrient rich and safe food for consumption. Dialogue participants emphasized that institutional reforms and arrangements are needed to address policy and strategic gaps, including inadequate and weak enforcement of food policies and regulations • Harmonization of work among institutions: Different institutions could be working together to ensure that we have targeted production. For example, if the Ministry of Agriculture promotes a particular crop, it could liaise with the Ministry of Health to know the nutritional problems that require a specific crop to be scaled-up in its production. • Development planning: The country should have long-term plans and then entrench in parliament. It should be legally binding on every government to continue existing agricultural projects that will enhance the sector. Parliament should pass a law binding on every govt to continue all agricultural projects. To address environmental/sustainability challenges dialogue participants indicated that • Policies and initiatives are needed to prevent/control overexploitation of natural resources in food value chains in Ghana • Extension officers could educate farmers focusing on the health implications of the use of hazardous chemicals. • Spatial production patterns could be more closely linked with soil fertility maps. i. e. Soil fertility maps are published by the soil research institute of CSIR to guide choice for crop for soils • Recycling of plastics/ Limit the use of plastic packaging: Recycle, reduce, re-us Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 2
Ghana - Étape 1 NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON GHANA’S FOOD SYSTEMS: DEVELOPING A RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED NUTRITON SECURITY Discussion topic outcome DISCUSSION TOPIC 1: Access to safe and nutritious foods by all Ghanaians Dialogue participants agree that most Ghanaians have access to food but not necessarily safe, and nutritious food. Factors that militate against access to safe and nutritious foods permeate the entire food system from production to consumption. • At the production level, illegal minding (galamsey) is affecting the quantity, quality, and safety of food produced • Relatedly, improper use of agrochemicals in farming, processing, and retail make food unsafe. • Inadequate storage facilities and poor market linkages are o... Lire la suitether factors • Vulnerability and lack of protection of the local (small-scale) farmers - from inflow of foreign goods that infiltrate the market. • Food retailers, who are not properly regulated, do not adhere to safe practices resulting in microbial contamination and foodborne diseases • Food fraud (including deceptive labelling practices, unregistered food on the market) is a challenge • Post-harvest level challenges include food waste and loss, fragmented food chain, poor transport, poor road linkages from farm to market. • With respect of healthful consumption, challenges include absence of food-based dietary guidelines. • Little to no effort to valorize nutritious local, indigenous, traditional foods. • There are cultural and social misperceptions of what constitutes healthy foods e.g. people who consume meat are seen as rich people. • Low nutrition literacy of the populace. • Unhealthy packaging practices: everything is going into plastics instead of the leaves, earthen ware bowl and calabashes • Poverty is pervasive and dictates access to safe and nutritious food. • Poor water quality is a challenge as access to safe water is important for food cultivation and preparation. • “Unattractiveness of agriculture” – as a vocation to the populace – people do not consider training in agriculture necessary to become farmers. To address these challenges, Dialogue participants recommended short/medium/long term actions including • Protection of local farmers by supporting them with inputs, and regulation of food inflow from other countries • Make agriculture more attractive to all especially young people • Valorize nutritious local/traditional food to incentivize production and consumption • Apply best practices including enforcing good agronomy practices, tracing and containing contaminated produce. The EPA and FDA should ensure that only approved agrochemicals are imported • Training of farmers on best practices on the management of pests, chemicals, pesticides Dialogue participants offered specific recommendations for the government, development partners, private sector and other food systems actors: • In collaboration with academia, government should train and certify food systems stakeholders e.g. farmers and retailers • In collaboration with development partners, government should expand and promote livelihood and income-generating activities (e.g. backyard farming, livestock rearing) targeted at women to improve household food security • Government should improve the transportation system and enact regulations (including price control policies) that benefit all food systems stakeholders. • Regulate advertising/marketing of food in general, not just unhealthy foods. • Food safety and standards policies/regulations should have clear delineation of roles and responsibilities of regulators. • Government should set up food banks and land banks (reserve lands for agriculture) to increase food production. • Investment in food processing industry to produce healthy processed foods • Institute both economic and fiscal interventions (tax system) to make healthy food attractive, and unhealthy food unattractive. Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1
Ghana - Étape 1 NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON GHANA’S FOOD SYSTEMS: DEVELOPING A RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED NUTRITON SECURITY Main findings The discussions from the breakout sessions produced the following key findings: Dialogue participants agree that most Ghanaians have access to food but not necessarily safe, and nutritious food. Factors that militate against access to safe and nutritious food permeate the entire food system from production to consumption. Production: •most government- and donor-sponsored programmes and projects do not promote the production of nutritious local/traditional foodstuffs. •Illegal mining (galamsey) is affecting the quantity, quality, and safety of food produced. Also, improper use of agrochemic... Lire la suiteals in farming, processing, and retail makes food unsafe. •Food retailers do not adhere to safe practices resulting in microbial contamination, and foodborne diseases •Post-harvest level challenges include food loss, fragmented food chain, poor transport, poor road linkages from farm to market. Healthy food consumption • absence of food-based dietary guidelines and few standards for nutritional requirements for different age groups • little to no effort to valorize nutritious local, indigenous, traditional foods. •vulnerable local (small-scale) farmers are not protected from the inflow of foreign goods that infiltrate the market. •Poverty is pervasive and dictates access to food. To address these challenges, Dialogue participants recommended short/medium/long term actions including: •Improvements in conditions (roads, markets, appropriate mechanization and storage etc.) that promote small farmer production systems; to produce diverse foodstuffs. •Protection of local farmers by supporting them with appropriate and quality inputs, and regulation of food inflow from other countries •Valorisation of nutritious local/traditional food to incentivize production and consumption •Application of best practices including promoting good and appropriate agronomy practices, tracing, and containing contaminated produce. The EPA and FDA should ensure that only approved agrochemicals are imported •Government should set up food banks and land banks (reserve lands for agriculture) to increase food production. •Meaningfully integrate fiscal and economic measures into food systems transformation initiatives. Healthy and sustainable food consumption : • Influx of imported foods that are cheap but unhealthy • Food fraud (which includes adulteration, substitution, dilution, tampering, counterfeiting, and misrepresentation of the ingredients of food or composition of food). • Food waste and loss – significant post-harvest losses Innovations and new approaches to address the above problems include • Use of hermetic bags for the storage of cereals and legumes to reduce post-harvest losses. • Introduce warehousing systems or storage facilities at the time of bumper harvest: • Encourage healthful food processing to increase shelf life of locally produced agricultural commodities; • Mobilize resources to accelerate investment through public-private partnerships: Recommendations for Sustainable nature positive production: • Improving productivity of small-scale farmer production systems since they promote planetary health, are climate-smart, nutrition-sensitive • Adopting diverse and appropriate improved farming practices, techniques to increase food production and productivity; • Promoting practices that protect the loss of biodiversity of Ghana’s indigenous and traditional foods, and natural regeneration of trees • Avoiding destructive farming activities that destroy natural resources such as needless use of agrochemicals, uncontrolled • Improved and localized irrigation systems by government and the private sectors as only rain-fed agriculture cannot sustain the food production • •Increase incentives to make agriculture attractive (branding) especially to the youth, Inequalities prevail within the Ghanaian food systems. Dialogue participants identified and proposed solutions including • •Government should consider the deployment of mobile agricultural extension services in the digitization drive to attract the youth to agriculture • •Government should buy or subsidize lands for agricultural purposes and engage traditional landholders to address land tenure challenges for easier direct access by women and youth • •Regions with high hunger index and malnutrition should have a land tenure system that will support the production of food crops rather than cash crops • •Improving access to post-harvest technologies such as cold chains to reduce postharvest losses, especially during seasons of glut, and improve traditional production/processing/preparation technologies for competitiveness • Fixing of railway and road networks to enhance transportation of harvested commodities and reduce losses in transit from hinterland as well as link farmers to markets. • Improved handling of agricultural commodities that will reduce bruising in transit. Also, ensure that existing measures such as mandatory use of scales at both the farm gate and in the markets facilitate trading of farm produce. Resilience: •Government and other food systems stakeholders to support and promote all-year-round production system • build data on actors in the food systems value chain, their profile, location, needs and actions given the risks. •Improve the storage systems, e.g. producer capacity to store harvested produce •The need to digitize our food system using artificial intelligence, blockchain farming, hydroponics etc. •Improve road, and rail network • Consider innovative financing models Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Mots-clés : Finance, Governance, Policy
Ghana - Étape 1 NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON GHANA’S FOOD SYSTEMS: DEVELOPING A RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED NUTRITON SECURITY Major focus • The Ghana National Food Systems Dialogue convened by the National Development Planning Commission, and the Ministry of Agriculture had an overarching theme - “Developing a Resilient and Equitable Food System for Improved Food and Nutrition Security”. The discussions covered all areas of the food systems and were organized around the Five Action Tracks of the Food Systems Summit Dialogues: • Action Track 1 – “Ensuring access to safe and nutritious food for all” – participants examined whether all Ghanaians currently have access to safe and nutritious food. If not, what is it t... Lire la suitehat makes it difficult for Ghanaians to access safe and nutritious food? • Action Track 2 – “Shifting to sustainable consumption patterns” – dialogue participants had conversations about what the key issues affecting healthy and sustainable food consumption were in Ghana. • Action Track 3 – “Boosting nature-positive production at scale” – examined how Ghana’s food production systems can be transformed to ensure sustainable food and nutrition security for the people. • Action Track 4 – “Advancing equitable livelihoods”– explored inequalities within the Ghanaian food systems • Action Track 5 – “Building resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks, and stresses” – examined Actions to ensure the resilience of the Ghanaian Food System. Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Mots-clés : Finance, Governance, Policy
Concertation Indépendante Building Healthy, Nutritious and Affordable Food Systems for Rwanda through Innovations Cible géographique: Rwanda Area of divergence The Innovation track in the UN FSS focused on Building Healthy, Nutritious and Affordable Food Systems for Rwanda through Innovations. The keys discussions were on the Innovations that are needed for smallholder farmers and small and medium enterprises to sustainably nourish Rwanda now and in the future. The participants identified the following innovation gaps in the food system and suggested ways in which they can be addressed. 1. Infrastructure - Nutritious value chains require sophisticated technology to sustain that smallholder farmers cannot afford. There is a need for post-harvest stora... Lire la suitege and process technologies and an effective logistic distribution system. 2. Access to Funds and Investments – Most financing companies are willing to provide either huge funds or nothing. But smallholder farmers need access to small-scale financing as they cannot afford high risks. 3. Knowledge – Farmers should be able to collaborate through one platform or a network such as an innovation hub that enables them to address concerns as well as share resources and knowledge that can add value to their produce. Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1 Mots-clés : Finance, Governance, Innovation, Policy, Women & Youth Empowerment
Concertation Indépendante Building Healthy, Nutritious and Affordable Food Systems for Rwanda through Innovations Cible géographique: Rwanda Discussion topic outcome Reactions by panel There is a systemic shift in food systems to suit the urban class we are seeing more distance from the farmer to consumers and the middleman is controlling the safety of our food. consumption of aflatoxins, for example, have a big impact on public health responsible for liver cancers and are also linked with negative growth. In March 2021, there were challenges with trade between Uganda and Kenya due to aflatoxins contamination, this means we need entrepreneurs to help solve the commercial challenges. Grain losses due to aflatoxins are between 14 to 35% annually. How can we ... Lire la suitereduce losses and rejects? We need innovation but must be affordable for smallholder farmers otherwise it will not be successful. For example, hermetic storage bags which has been around for about a decade but there has been a low adaptation level by farmers. Probably the key solution will be to engage entrepreneurs who will reach the farmers to educate them and supply them with his packaging at affordable prices. Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1 Mots-clés : Innovation
Concertation Indépendante Building Healthy, Nutritious and Affordable Food Systems for Rwanda through Innovations Cible géographique: Rwanda Discussion topic outcome Innovation What are the key factors that help drive innovation? It takes more than one key factor for innovations to scale in an emerging economy like Rwanda. For innovations to be successful in LMIC’s there needs to be the 3 C’s. They are: 1. Creativity 2. Capacity Building 3. Collaboration Entrepreneurs are extremely creative and market savvy but in emerging economies with the enabling system is so sub-optimal, entrepreneurs have to create the conditions that will enable their venture to operate successfully, and these enablers will often include capacity building with other players alon... Lire la suiteg the value chain that affects their business whether their vendors, customer or retailers. They have to collaborate with the social sector such as NGOs, the government to make sure their venture functions smoothly. Unlike entrepreneurs in high-income countries, the 3Cs are the foundations to be successful in LMIC’s. Lire moins Piste(s) d'Action: 1 Mots-clés : Finance, Governance, Innovation
