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Major focus
The Dialogue was centered around using organic practices to boost Nature-positive food production, emphasizing the linkages where organic agriculture is the vehicle to address; building resilience, advancing equitable livelihoods, shifting to sustainable consumption patterns, and ensuring that everybody has access to safe and nutritious food. We were not discussing only certified organic agriculture but organic agriculture based on the Principles of Health, Ecology, Fairness and Care. Shared regional values of love, kinship, relationships were a driver with the aim to go beyond sustainability
... Lire la suite– but to regenerate and find balance and harmony with our environment. In particular, the role of organic producers, their organizations and the communities they are part of as the drivers of these changes and who frequently do not have a voice in food system policy discussions was a major focus. Farmers tend to be ‘acted upon’ by Governments and agencies rather than recognized as primary actors and agents of change and custodians of the land and ecosystems they work within. It also focused on the ‘Oceania Pasifika’ region consisting of Australia, New Zealand and the 22 Pacific Island countries and territories. A diverse region both culturally and geographically but with strong commonalities, shared history including connections between the indigenous communities of the region, and shared values on which the Oceania Pasifika Organic Food Systems Dialogue was focused. Our Dialogue strayed somewhat from the three UN defined aspirational outcomes of Protect, Manage and Restore to three aspirational outcomes inherent to Organics in the Oceania Pasifika region: Culture and Tradition, Health and Innovation. Culture and Tradition: The region has strongly held and maintained traditional cultural systems that provide not only valuable traditional agriculture and food perseveration techniques but also governance and leadership. This is a great strength of the region. Health: The region has amongst the worst health statistics in the world with soaring rates of NCDs. We also have extremely vulnerable eco systems, the health of which is being severely impacted by practices of the current food systems and climate change. This is one of our most significant challenges. Innovation: the remoteness of the region and the large distances between us has contributed to a strong culture of innovation and invention and a hunger for learning and creating new ways to meet our challenges. This is where opportunity lies for us. These 3 areas also have applicability across all action tracks and will facilitate synergies. The outcomes were fleshed out in the pre-dialogue Discussion Starter document along with open-ended questions to start people thinking of how to contribute to the dialogues. This decision proved to work well as the participants, especially the Organic Farmers, who are familiar with the principles, needed little prompting to begin the Talanoa discussions. The modern, industrialized, input dependent, export focused, agricultural Food System is failing, and the detrimental effects on Health, Equitable opportunities, Lifestyle, Environment, Climate Change and Local Economies is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in Pacific Island Countries and Territories [PICTs] as well as Australia and New Zealand. At the same time, Organically Managed Food Systems, including Pacific Organics, which includes Culture and Tradition, coupled with Science and Innovation, and the broad definition of Health to include Soil, Forest, Livestock, Fisheries Health, and including Social and Gender equity, are proving to be the solution to these challenges. New and emerging approaches, when adopted alongside the use of traditional knowledge, and organic, regenerative and inclusive practices (such as agroecology, sustainable fishing and democratic food governance), give the potential to transition to nature-positive food production systems – ones that deliver a larger diversity of plants and animals to a growing population, without degrading the functional integrity of ecosystems, whilst meeting the nutritional needs of all current and future generations. Lire moins
Piste(s) d'Action: 3, 4, 5
Mots-clés : Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Women & Youth Empowerment