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Discussion Topic AT5: Building resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks, and stresses Context: Current food system is under pressure from climate crisis, conflict, COVID-19 pandemics, economic shocks, natural disasters and environmental degradation, including food price hikes and disease-pests outbreaks. These shocks, stress and disaster can be devastating for poor and vulnerable people, who have limited resources and options. Climate induced and other natural disasters have significant impact on national economy. Lately, COVID-19 has contributed to increase unemployment, poverty and vulnerabilit
... Подробнееy including loss of livelihoods. The 2015 Earthquake increased number of food insecure people by 3.5 million. Underlying causes affecting the stated proposition: Farmers and stakeholders lack adequate incentives for climate initiatives and green agriculture. High post-production losses, unsafe transportation and weak supply chain resulting in inadequate/late access of safe food in affordable prices for marginal, poor and low income groups. Epidemics/pandemic (such as diarrhea, COVID-19, etc) have increased vulnerability of poor, women, and marginalized households. Poor, landless, and marginalized groups have settlements in vulnerable places (river banks, landslide prone areas). Preparation and readiness arrangements are weak. Underlying Barriers for Achieving the Stated Proposition: • Subsistence and unremunerative farming • Disaster vulnerability is increased by level of poverty as poor households are dependent on flood/disaster prone lands for cultivation • No protection of poor farmers during disasters • No proper orientation of plans, policies and programs to farmers • No proper continuation of transport facilities during disasters • Lack of new technologies and seeds to farmers • Lack of preparedness for disasters and no early warning system to share the information with the farmers • Lack of knowledge to cope with disasters • Subsidy administration not well targeted to real farmers and need based • UN agencies and other private agencies are not involved in food distribution collectively during disasters Actions for the next 3 years: • Water outlets and irrigation should be focused by relevant governments and projects • Need based Disaster related plans and policies prepared and implemented • Fertilizers and pesticides should be accessed easily by the farmers • Subsidies should be provided to all needy farmers (poor) rather than elite. • New knowledge creation and market management mechanism developed • Women and youth should be encouraged for farming • Black marketing should be discouraged through regular monitoring • Determine minimum price by the government and discourage middlemen in marketing • Promotion of traditional practices of disaster response Assessing the success of Action: • Implementation structure should be strong for investigating policies and laws • Increment in productivity rate needed • Food (Rasan) card system should be introduced • Enhanced access to irrigation facility • Stored agri products should be transferred properly • Budget allocation and spending trend should be at the right track • Implementation of farmers oriented policies • Awareness raising activities should be increased for farmers • Publication of every work related with budget spending on them • CIAA should always develop a system to get complaints by the farmers for any corruption during disaster Collaboration and Roles/responsibilities of 3 tiers Government and other Actors: • Central level decision related to budget allocation to be implemented by provincial and local agencies on food security • Climate adaptation related plans and policies • Concerned authority in their working area of land degradation should be accountable • Cold storage should be constructed by the province and local government • Coordination in hazard mapping and recovering plan should be collectively managed • Insurance co. desk related to agriculture should be established in every local government • Formulating laws which allow UN and other private agencies to work with 3 tiers of govt in preparedness, risk reduction and relief. Скрыть
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Ключевые слова: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Governance, Human rights, Policy, Women & Youth Empowerment