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ACTIONS 1. Support smallholder farmers in adopting evidence-based regenerative agriculture practices. • Recognize that smallholder farmers are often on the frontlines of catastrophic impacts of climate variability and change, nature loss, deepening poverty, and the wide inequality gap. • Develop evidence-based regenerative food systems and foodscapes that are attuned to local cultures, and economic and biophysical circumstances. • Integrated approaches are good for soil and the environment, healthy animals, and raising farmer productivity and livelihoods. • Provide smallholder farmers
... Lire la suitewith technical assistance, resources, incentives, payment systems, and access to technology and connectivity, the best seeds, and crop insurance, so they can produce crops sustainably, while making a livelihood for themselves and their families. o Ensure that digital tools are co-created and farmer-centric to address their issues, including lowering production costs and improving incomes. o Explore payments for ecosystem services. • Address challenges facing women farmers, such as lack of access to land, financing, markets, agricultural training and education, suitable working conditions, and equal treatment. 2. Involve young people. • Make farming more appealing to young farmers, who are often in the best position to advance evidence-based scientific innovations and technologies for sustainable farming. • Provide school-based agriculture education, including experiential opportunities. 3. Share effective, evidence-based, scientific practices beyond the communities where they originated. • Create coalitions that share these practices among NGOs, extension services, etc., that provide services to farmers so information can be disseminated widely. • Bring awareness about market trade to allow farmers to sell their crops to secure living wages and prosperity. 4. Educate consumers. • Educate consumers about farming and making food decisions that are healthier and better for the planet. Build awareness of the impact of the excessive consumption of animal-sourced foods; provide guidance regarding healthy portion sizes; and make food label dates more easily understood. 5. Better align international policy. • Promote harmonization of legislation/standards across regulatory systems. • Foster end-to-end solutions working across the food system and address the concrete needs of end users. PARTNERSHIPS 1. With organizations that work in the larger context of sustainable development, beyond the usual stakeholders who are involved in the food supply chain, for a more holistic approach for interventions, innovation, and solutions. 2. Between research institutions, farmers, and consumers to support the development, deployment and scaling of evidence-based scientific innovations. 3. With and among various government agencies and ministries, including agriculture, environment, education, etc., to provide education, technical assistance and outreach, data collection, financial assistance, and financial investment to smallholder farmers in remote rural areas. Everyone in food systems can benefit from these partnerships including many other food system actors. 4. With the private sector, to bring innovation, digital technology, finance, and insurance products to farmers, especially smallholder farmers. 5. With schools, to provide agriculture education and provide a market for local farmers by providing locally grown sustainable food, especially in countries greatly relying on smallholder farmers. 6. With youth – include them in decision making and empower them to bring innovative solutions to farming, and the rest of the food system, as they are often early adopters of technology. 7. With consumers to help them understand the challenges and opportunities related to farming and the environment, the true cost of food, and how to create change through demanding sustainably grown food. 8. Within regional and context-specific coalitions that include technology providers, farmers, NGOs and INGOs, and businesses. 9. Between conservationists, policymakers, and farmers. 10. Among members in the value chain to reduce the cost of food related to transportation, food waste, and pest reduction. A close network of communication from a coalition/connection between farmer, supplier, wholesaler, etc. 11. Between regulatory systems coalitions to promote harmonization and end-to-end solutions. 12. Between governments to create more compatible and global solutions. Going forward, it will be key to continue existing coalitions, building on partnerships that are already doing the work, as well as create new coalitions and continue conversations with people from diverse backgrounds far beyond 2021 to ensure action. It is important to ensure young people are at the table, as youth are not only our future, but the planet is their future. It’s up to all of us to keep the conversation going – the UN, farmers, companies, agricultural workers, academia, researchers, etc. The Summit should just be the beginning. Lire moins
Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mots-clés : Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment