Независимый Диалог
Местоположение:
Албания, Алжир, Босния и Герцеговина, Болгария, Хорватия, Кипр, Египет, Франция, Греция, Израиль, Италия, Иордания, Ливан, Ливия, Мальта, Черногория, Марокко, Северная Македония, Португалия, Сербия, Словения, Испания, Сирийская Арабская Республика, Тунис, Турция
Main findings
While technological innovations are in theory already available for farmers to grow food more efficiently, in reality farmers often can’t access these innovations as they do not have the financial means to implement them. The issue is that farmers, especially small and medium, are usually too focused on breaking even to have the headspace to think about how to be more sustainable. Participants discussed the hypothesis of shortening supply chains and connecting consumers and farmers more directly, allowing farmers to make more profit. On the consumer side, the main obstacle most commonly face
... Подробнееd when trying to reduce one’s water footprint is the inability to find reliable, easily accessible, and not contradictory information to guide decisions. Financial incentives for consumers are also currently lacking – it seems that the products which require more water to be produced are also the cheapest and most subsidised. For these reasons, most participants identified policy makers and governmental bodies as the most powerful actors to drive change – besides also agreeing on the fact that there is a shared responsibility and we all have to play our part to mitigate the issue. The groups discussed the importance of policies and financial support that promote more sustainable practices, such as nature-based solutions, regenerative agriculture, and vertical farming, as well as incentives for better managing waste. On the other hand, participants agreed that we would also need “restrictive” policies, to penalise bad management of water and to prevent criminal acts in water scarce areas. There was a strong sense that governments need to think beyond their national borders to be able to solve this issue. Everyone agreed that water, as a basic human right, should remain a public resource and should not be privatised. At the end of the Dialogue, all participants voted on the solutions that they thought should be the ones to take priority. These are: 1. Working off long term economic models, which help to share costs and benefits across generations and ensure inter-generational equity. 2. Giving economic incentives to reward sustainable practices, and penalisation for bad water use. 3. Creating programmes that successfully raise awareness of these issues and lead consumers to revaluing water by education. 4. Moving beyond nationalism, funding innovations in different countries. Скрыть
Направления деятельности: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ключевые слова: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs