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A. Behaviour change and sustainable food consumption: 1. Healthy diets, nutritious food and new opportunities for farmers It may be too simplistic to say that the transition to a healthy sustainable diet may create opportunities for farmers, because farmers have different responsibilities not simply to produce a basket of a diet but producing crops that could then be part of nutritious diet. There are global and local food systems and power imbalances can be at several levels and across various places around the world. There are many barriers with regards to sustainable food production like th... Lire la suitee power imbalance, but it may also be because of trade and consumers for example in in high income countries demanding a lot of input from producing countries and therefore contributing to deforestation another environmental problem. The coin can be flipped by turning it into an opportunity if we buy directly from farmers so that a market can be created that could not only stimulate sustainable production on the farmers side but also help that farmer produce not just sustainably, but also possibly more output. The indigenous or local farmers play a key role in sustainable food production. We need diets which are healthy for human body as well as for the planet. Educating the farmers not only about the market systems but also about providing them with skills and knowledge to produce in a sustainable way. The fiscal policies (subsidies and taxes) could help in transitioning towards a healthy more sustainable diet. Good governance practices are required balance power relations and facilitate fair trade. The farmers need to be equipped with good tools and knowledge in order to not just know ‘How to produce?’, but also ‘What to produce?’ And at the same time, the consumers should know what to eat and from what source and what prices to pay? If we need to make these transitions, we need to look at barriers both on the producer’s and consumer’s side and create an enabling policy environment. National Food-based Dietary Guidelines are helpful tools that inform both consumers, producers and policy makers what is a healthy diet. There is a need specifically to look at small holder farmers for an enabling environment in order to be able to sustainably produce, but also to produce those items which are fit for healthy diet. We can make use of latest technologies in order to bring these transitions. Lire moins

1. System thinking: the global food system is characterised by strong imbalances as well as incredible interconnections. Shifting the needle towards an approach where people and planet are placed at the heart will allow to break silos and address inequities, a fundamental step towards transformative change. 2. Rights and governance: the process of placing people and planet at the centre of sustainable food systems can be facilitated by taking a human rights approach which leaves no one behind while empowering local communities, women and young people. Applying a food systems lenses can strengt... Lire la suitehen environmental governance at global, national and local level. 3. Finding solutions: food systems dialogues have been an incredible opportunity to advance global exchanges on key issues such as nutrition, food waste and urban agriculture, as well as to focus on the health of specific ecosystems and its management. The Food Systems Summit will be a ‘solutions Summit’ and momentum must be kept to advance actions at all levels. 4. Valuing nature: the adoption and implementation of standards, metrics and accounts which take into consideration the real value of nature through the entire supply chain will be fundamental to advance the transformation towards sustainable food systems as well as to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Lire moins

1. A transformation of global food systems is needed to positively impact nature and tackle current planetary and human health crisis. Food is central to our lives and it is also central to the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution that the world is currently facing. The global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss. Agriculture is a threat to the 85% of species at risk of extinction and close to 90% of the world's marine fish stocks are fully exploited, overexploited or depleted. Over the past 50 years, pollution by fertilizers, chemicals a... Lire la suitend pesticides and the conversion of natural ecosystems for crop production or pasture have been the principal causes of habitat loss. Anti-microbials in the environment and food value chains are a growing cause of human and animal death. As the world’s population is predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050, it is estimated that 70% more food calories will be needed. This will have an impact on our changing climate, with livestock currently contributing to 14.5% of GHG emissions and global food loss and waste generating annually about 8% of total anthropogenic GHG emissions. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the complex relation between human, animal and ecosystems health. 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic and evidence points to the biodiversity crisis as a contributory factor in the emergence of COVID-19. Food systems are also the backbone of human health: poor diets are the leading cause of death and often cause non-communicable diseases. “A transformation of food systems is central to the achievement of all 17 SDGs. From equity to education, from sustainable consumption and production to health, it has now become a matter of survival” (Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UNEP). 2. All of us need to come together to ensure nature-positive food systems – before and after the farm gate. Concrete action to transform our global diets, informed by national and cultural contexts and a reduction in food waste are critical to breaking the system lock-ins that have driven the intensification of agriculture and the continued conversion of native ecosystems to crop production and pasture. “We all need to eat to survive. Food that is a great connector, it's a universal language. Around the table we are equals, and, even more importantly, around the table we are together and ‘we are the revolution’” Chef Massimo Bottura (UNEP Goodwill Ambassador). Restoring 15% of converted lands in right places could prevent 60% of projected species extinctions. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration will catalyse global action to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean. Limiting the use of harmful and polluting inputs, replacing monoculture with polyculture farming practices, promoting deforestation-free and nature positive supply chains, as well as truly accounting for nature’s values and costs could not only make our way of farming more sustainable, but would also increase coherence between global agreements and national and local level action, while embedding a ‘food systems approach’ throughout. 3. “Dialogues lead to surprising connections that have the power to change us all for the good” (David Nabarro, Curator of the Summit Dialogues) This Dialogue and the platform it offered as well as the multiple country dialogues planned in the build-up to the FSS and beyond are critical to unlocking the solutions to our triple planetary crisis by diving into the complexity using a food systems lens. “Let's use this Dialogue to think through how we can come together to cause systemic change in our food systems. Let’s build a real agenda for change. Change will only happen if we put nature at the centre of our financial and socioeconomic systems”. (Agnes Kalibata, UN SG’s Special Envoy). “Every event, every dialogue, every conversation we have in the run-up to the Food Systems Summit is an opportunity to ensure food is mainstreamed in the preparations of the three Rio Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Desertification” (Susan Gardner, Director – Ecosystems, UNEP). Lire moins