Concertation Indépendante
Cible géographique:
États-Unis d’Amérique
Discussion topic outcome
The overarching discussion topic was answering the following questions: What innovative anti-hunger initiatives address equity, healthy diets, resilience, and sustainability? What needs to happen to scale these initiatives? What are challenges to addressing intersecting issues in one initiative? What is needed to encourage innovation and interdisciplinary approaches? Answers included the following, framed by the 3 three keys to scalability: research, practice, and policy. Anti-hunger initiatives need to ground their work within practice. Participants advocated for those partaking in anti-hunge
... Lire la suiter initiatives to do this by building relationships with external and internal partners and the populations hunger and food insecurity initiatives seek to support. The areas of research, practice, and policy are key components when looking to scale solutions to end hunger. Research must be informing the initiative, evaluating different initiatives, and retrieving up-to-date information to determine the worthiness in scaling to different communities. The area of practice needs to be committed to embed work in close proximity to communities on a daily basis in order to accurately identify the problems and the contributing aspects of hunger and food insecurity. The area of policy needs to look at specific federal or global policy, or develop new policy focused initiatives. Co-creative efforts are needed. It is vital to empower those who have experienced hunger and food insecurity by seeking out their expertise and stories. Identify who the story tellers are to create effective science policy communication. The best storytellers are not the academics and experts of the field, but the people who live within and experience the systems. Initiatives need to empower communities and give those impacted the opportunity to take ownership of their intervention. Increasing local efforts and incentivizing local agriculture to support their surrounding communities can empower those experiencing hunger and food insecurity. Growing locally will help local health and the local economy. Community efforts can include implementing biodiversity, engaging the youth with agriculture, creating community gardens, and installing peer groups so that those impacted have easy access to learn about food systems and listen or share lived experiences. Gaps in hunger and health, as well as hunger and policy, need to be identified. Connections between biodiversity, sustainability, and long-term health and wellbeing should also be made more clear. Individuals and families impacted would benefit from being able to implement diet-related changes by understanding that health-related issues are possibly contributed to what they are eating. Participants highlighted the disparities in income spent on food and income spent on healthcare and if healthcare is addressed, income and health can be allocated to healthy food diet habits and change in patterns in food desserts. Equity with hunger and food insecurity should be addressed by getting to the root causes such as systemic racism with farmers of color. Participants highlighted and advocated support for the SB. 300 Justice for Black Farmers Act that aims to address historic discrimination in federal farm assistance and lending within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that has caused Black farmers and their families to lose millions of acres of farmland and billions of dollars of intergenerational wealth. Creating projects with the four pathways (equity, health, resilience, sustainability) in mind is important for achievement of SDG 2. However, there will likely be tradeoffs between these pathways. While some innovations maximize one core value, innovative opportunities may not maximize all values simultaneously, but as efforts and evaluations are made the balance of core values will be more identifiable. Lire moins
Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mots-clés : Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Governance, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs