Recommendations for "Governance and enabling business environment (47 results)"
Promote a fair and market-oriented world agricultural trading system in accordance with multilateral trade rules, in acknowledgment of the role of trade as an important element in support of sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition
2016
Create policy incentives for smallholders to invest in mitigation and adaptation because many of the inputs and technologies required for low-carbon agricultural practices have high costs of production, purchase, and use.
2013
Promoting stronger cooperation with the Ministries of Agriculture of least developed and developing countries, especially from Africa, in order to share our best practices, experiences and respective approaches to rural development policies and to encourage responsible private and public investments in the agri-food sector of these countries, in line with CFS-RAI.
2017
We underline the importance of increasing public and private investment in sustainable agriculture, rural development and environmental protection in cooperation with international organisations. It is essential to tackle climate change impacts and ensure sustainable management of water, forests and other natural resources, while considering demographic growth.
2009
We stress the importance of sound agricultural policies and strategies to underpin the investments, at national, regional and global level. Policies and strategies need to be developed in an inclusive manner, involving all main stakeholders, including farmer organisations, and be based on reliable statistics. In Africa, the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) encompasses these principles and deserves our support.
2009
An international coordinated strategy needs to be encouraged in order to improve the efficiency of agri-food chains.
2009
Support efforts which aim to sustainably increase smallholder farmers’ productivity, enhance the enabling environment for collective action and organization and integration to markets, promote their access to innovations, appropriate inputs, finance, technology and services on gender-equal basis, and strengthen their resilience towards external shocks.
2016
Encourage integration of agricultural scientific and technological projects and programs between countries for the purpose of coordinated innovation and joint research, and the promotion of exchanges and sharing of agricultural know-how.
2016
Develop an enabling environment, so as to leverage the role of multiple stakeholders, including governments, the private sector, civil society, research institutes and producers, to advance R&D and the extension and adoption of agricultural innovation.
2016
Improve both public and private service system, including vocational training and foster efficient agricultural service organizations and enterprises, thus building a comprehensive service network covering all stages before, during and after production, including sustainable value chains.
2016
Ensure coordination across sectors for effective food security governance
2020
Provide policy space and support to countries seeking to improve their domestic food production capacity within their ecological boundaries in the medium and longer-term.
2020
Adopting an international agreement on food emergencies.
2021
Developing new tools to block corporate commodity chains and hack closed-door negotiations
2021
Cracking down on corporate impunity and techno-fixes: monitor, regulate, or recall technologies that are dangerous or failing
2021
Making cross-sectoral collaboration the norm.
2021
Building new partnerships to finance a quarter century of food system transformation
2021
Reviewing, reforming and reconfiguring the UN’s agri-food agencies.
2021
Levying junk food and taxing corporations fairly.
2021
Providing the conditions necessary to scale local successes into large-scale, transformative initiatives. This includes fostering the underlying social and economic conditions and institutions, particularly those relating to stakeholder engagement, land tenure, gender equality, and the availability of sustained investment and infrastructure.
2017
Prioritizing and balancing different stakeholder needs at a landscape scale while incorporating site-level specificity on land use, demand, and condition so that a full range of goods and services are produced. Land use planning helps identify those land uses that best meet the demands of people while safeguarding soil, water, and biodiversity for future generations.
2017
Framing a new approach to spatial planning to minimize the impacts of urban sprawl and infrastructure development. Cities designed for sustainability in the wider landscape can reduce environmental costs of transport, food, water, and energy, and offer new opportunities for resource efficiency.
2017
Improve the business environment for the agri-food system: including reforming regulations and licensing requirements that impede the establishment or expansion of new enterprises; improving contract law and enforcement processes; improving regulations for financial and insurance services; improving land policies so that farmers have secure access to their land and agribusinesses can acquire land for building purposes; regulating input markets (e.g., seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and veterinary medicines) to ensure minimum quality and safety standards; and regulating agricultural and food markets to ensure minimum food safety and quality standards.
2017
Build on guidance from relevant international and regional intergovernmental organizations and agreements, and take into account, as appropriate, the work of multi-stakeholder platforms and partnerships, which are dedicated to sustainable agricultural development and livestock specific issues
2016
Promote integration of food security and nutrition (FSN) into related policies to maximize the positive role that sustainable agricultural development and particularly livestock have in improving the economic, social and environmental sustainability of food systems, and strengthen coherence between sectoral policies and programmes
2016
Policies to boost domestic production of food such as: Free or subsidized input distribution; Import-tariff or value-added tax cuts on fertilizers and technology production; Government-funded agricultural research and extension activities and Subsidies for the adoption of new technologies and irrigation
2019
In order to generate positive pathways, it is important to think, invest and act long-term. The interaction of food security and nutrition interventions with complex processes of social change both shape and are shaped by individual and household behaviors, social norms, institutions, the operation of markets, and collective action.
2017
Better recognize linkages between environment and natural resource degradation and food security and nutrition
2020
Recognize that changes in the global economic system have varied impacts and varied solutions
2020
Work at multiple scales (local, national, global) to address international challenges & locally with attention to situation specific challenges
2020
Create a task force led by the CFS to track the food security impacts of COVID-19.
2020
Establish a reporting system for CFS member states to share information and experiences with respect to the impact of COVID-19 on FSN in local and national contexts.
2020
Strengthening state implementation capacity and accountability. State capacity to design and implement policies and programmes to catalyze and sustain such transformation is fundamental. So, too, is strong participation from a broad spectrum of stakeholders, all of whom must devote resources to policy processes to ensure that their interests are adequately represented.
2016
Create an enabling environment for positive private sector contributions to making food systems inclusive, and manage trade-offs among different policy goals
2020
Integrated food policies: Reforming the governance of food systems is a powerful vehicle for advancing agroecology in West Africa and beyond.
2020
Labor costs: Avoid rigid regulation and exchange rate misalignment
2020
Standards certification: establish conformity assessment regime
2020
Foreign direct investment: Adopt supportive investment policy and improve the business climate. Attracting FDI is important at all stages of participation. It requires openness, investor protection, stability, a favorable business climate, and, in some cases, investment promotion.
2020
Better coordination of the agriculture and health agendas can yield big dividends for productivity and welfare
2008
Facilitation of collaborative schemes between different food system actors (e.g. cooperation agreements among retailers to establish marketing codes of conduct).
2016
Creation of incentives for local or regional sourcing and investment in sustainable local supply chains.
2016