Recommendations for "Coordination and Cooperation (292 results)"
Multi-stakeholder dialogues built on evidence-based arguments can help bring together different perspectives, as long as they are developed in an inclusive manner. In order for research to have a real-world impact, implementing agencies, civil society organisations, farmer organisations and private sector actors need to be involved at various stages. However, the role of the private sector, including potential vested interests, should be openly discussed and scrutinized, particularly in relation to blended finance models.
2020
Use entry points such as climate change adaptation, human and environmental health, biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, equity and social inclusion to establish dialogues with wide-ranging stakeholders around the multidimensional benefits of agroecological research for development.
2020
Organise equitable and inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogues based on evidence from agroecological research; enroll champions or figureheads who can help to enhance credibility and build alliances.
2020
Support organisations in their journey towards agroecology by assisting them to build increasingly systemic approaches into subsequent phases of their programming.
2020
Extend the analysis of AgR4D money flows to other regions and institutions, including the CGIAR system, and undertake peer reviews to ensure coherent approaches throughout funding portfolios.
2020
Improve transparency and accountability as to how AgR4D projects are funded, how they are monitored and how their impacts are measured, e.g., through an extended common reporting system.
2020
Invite policymakers and funders to visit projects and get first-hand information about the added value of agroecological research projects; engage policymakers in sustained dialogue to challenge and counter the other perspectives influencing their thinking.
2020
Build bridges between different parts of the research world with stronger incentives to involve different stakeholders and different forms of knowledge in research design beyond traditional discipline-specific incentives (journal publication and career opportunity).
2020
Enhance the role of pastoralist organizations and strengthen public policies and investments for the provision of services adapted to the needs and ways of life of pastoralists and their mobility, including promoting gender equality and addressing the specific needs and roles of women within pastoralist communities.
2016
Improve disease prevention, control, and surveillance, including through cross border cooperation on transboundary diseases, in order to foster early-warning and early action on disease control, spread and eradication, with emphasis on the Peste des Petits Ruminants Global Eradication Programme (PPR).
2016
Increase collaboration among private institutions, governments, and donors to support research into the design of innovative, simple, and flexible insurance tools (such as group-based risk sharing and credit) that are adapted to the varying needs and constraints facing smallholders, especially targeting subsistence farmers with profit potential.
2013
Promote policies that promote climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture, which are especially useful for helping smallholders manage risks while improving productivity. Investments in mitigation include helping farmers improve their energy efficiency and manage their land in ways that increase carbon storage. Investments in adaptation could focus on helping farmers adjust their planting dates as well as on developing and ensuring public provision of high-yielding crop varieties and technologies that are adapted to changing precipitation patterns and temperatures.
2013
Increase smallholder access to information and communication technologies (ICTs), which offers a wealth of opportunities to acquire real-time market information—on, for example, prices, demand, quality standards, and weather. Access to such technologies needs to be accompanied by efforts from the public and private sectors to improve both the information content of ICTs and the ability of potential users to employ these technologies.
2013
Ensure smallholder-friendly financing and investment. Increasing capital flows toward rural areas requires innovation in the channels and instruments through which financial services are offered to smallholders, including young people. When it comes to smallholders, however, more research is needed to explore the viability and benefits of these innovative services before they can be scaled up.
2013
Pursue “Double-Duty Actions” that simultaneously address undernutrition (stunting) and obesity, including interventions, programmes and policies implemented at all levels of the population – country, city, community, household and individual – as well as school food programmes and policies to promote food environments to provide healthy diets.
2020
Collaboration with regional and international research and extension organizations and networks is important to strengthen capacities of national agricultural research and extension systems, and to facilitate sharing of knowledge and best practices and innovations for increased production and productivity.
2020
Disruptive effects on food value chains due to the COVID-19 pandemic require enhanced international cooperation and market transparency, as well as measures that facilitate the movement of food without compromising food safety and workers’ health, including the establishment of trade corridors and the temporary re-evaluation of technical trade barriers.
2020
Opening global markets can bring benefits to all trading partners and can create important spillover effects through the transmission of technology and the transfer of know‑how. Opening markets is more likely to result in significant benefits if complemented by other policies that underpin competitiveness, such as measures that improve governance and infrastructure, upgrade skills, remove rigidities in labour markets and facilitate the reallocation of labour between sectors. However, there are concerns about the short‑term effects of opening trade, especially the impacts on income distribution and inequality.
2020
Inclusive business models, such as contract farming, can address the constraints farmers face in entering markets and value chains. In developing countries, such an approach can be facilitated by effective farmers’ groups and requires multifaceted and coordinated actions by the government, the private sector and civil society.
2020
Understanding the challenges that arise from digital technologies and addressing the risks associated with their use require enhanced collaboration and consensus among all stakeholders, including governments, the private sector and the farmers themselves, to improve governance mechanisms.
2020
It is important to ensure better integration of global policy platforms and processes to ensure that actions across and within sectors such as environment, food, agriculture and health pursue coherent objectives.
2018
Solutions require increased partnerships and multi-year, large-scale funding of integrated disaster risk reduction and management and climate change adaptation programmes that are short-, medium- and long-term in scope.
2018
To achieve the WHA 2025 and SDG 2030 nutrition targets will require increased investment in nutrition interventions, scaled-up implementation of policies and programmes, enhanced policy coherence, and a greater number of national commitments.
2018
Experience-based metrics of food insecurity like the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES), and awareness of the different pathways from food insecurity to malnutrition, can contribute to the design of more effective interventions and policy coherence across sectors.
2018
Scaled-up actions across sectors are needed to strengthen the resilience of livelihoods and food systems to climate variability and extremes. Such actions should take place through integrated disaster risk reduction and management and climate change adaptation policies, programmes and practices with short-, medium- and long-term vision.
2018
Solutions require increased partnerships, enhanced risk management capacities and multi-year, predictable large-scale funding of disaster risk reduction and management and climate change adaption policies, programmes and practices.
2018
Today, the much needed convergence and coherence of climate resilience actions by humanitarian and development actors is being promoted through another important dialogue called the humanitarian–development nexus. This considers how to bridge the needs of people across the current artificial divide between humanitarian and development responses, incorporating the concept of resilience along the continuum.
2018
Acknowledging the risks to nutrition from changing climate variability and extremes is critical in creating more effective safety nets or social protection schemes that are responsive to climate risks. Interventions should also consider advocacy across all agencies and actors in the public, private and civil society sectors to protect and build coping and adaptation strategies for women and other vulnerable groups.
2018
The more integrated sets of interventions are within and across sectors, the better they are in meeting household, community and institutional needs in the face of climate variability and extremes. Coordination is a prerequisite in ensuring people and institutions work across all agriculture sectors as well as other sector such as health, education, water and energy. This points to a unique opportunity to address the challenge of existing fragmented global policy processes and the need to forge synergies for better dialogue among climate, humanitarian, development, nutrition and health actors in the spirit of the universal SDGs. Nevertheless, while there is immense potential for synergies, the potential trade-offs also need to be considered.
2018
Integrating climate and food security questions into health risk assessments is also important in providing early signals for potential outbreaks of disease, thus triggering early action. There are significant benefits to coordinating needs assessments in livelihoods, nutrition, health and other sectors to save more lives and protect and restore more livelihoods.
2018
Improving agriculture livelihoods, food security, nutrition and health in the face of climate variability and extremes will only be possible by strengthening governance structures in the environment–food–health nexus. This implies the inclusion of immediate and long-term agriculture, food security, nutrition and health considerations into climate resilience policies, legislation and the larger enabling environment for governance.
2018
Collaboration between the public sector, the private sector and communities is key to ensuring comprehensive, coherent and complementary actions.
2018
Promote greater coordination, cooperation, and partnerships to maximize synergies to improve livelihoods.
2014
Regularly assess changes and communicate results to stakeholders.
2014
States are encouraged to apply their procurement policies and outreach strategies in line with the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems], and support smallholders, including those that are family farmers and small businesses, in accessing and participating in tenders. In this context, States may, where appropriate, consider sourcing locally in accordance with multilateral or bi-lateral international agreements as applicable to the parties to those agreements.
2014
Inter-governmental and regional organizations have a key role to play in promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems. In doing so, they are encouraged to integrate the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] into their own policies, frameworks with member States, programmes, research, outreach activities, technical assistance, and capacity building. Intergovernmental and regional organizations are encouraged to support the CFS to serve as a platform for sharing of experiences related to responsible agricultural investment.
2014
Business enterprises involved in agriculture and food systems are encouraged to inform and communicate with other stakeholders, conduct due diligence before engaging in new arrangements, conduct equitable and transparent transactions, and support efforts to track the supply chain.
2014
Civil society organizations are also encouraged to collaborate with other stakeholders at all stages of investments to use the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems], as well as to monitor and assess the impacts of responsible investment on agriculture and food systems.
2014
The role of workers in agriculture and food systems is vital. Workers and their organizations play a key role in promoting and implementing decent work, thereby contributing to efforts towards sustainable and inclusive economic development. They also have a crucial role in engaging in social dialogue with all other stakeholders to promote the application of the Principles in investments in agriculture and food systems, and in promoting the integration of the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] in national laws and policies.
2014
Communities, indigenous peoples, those directly affected by investments, the most vulnerable, and those working in agriculture and food systems are encouraged to actively engage and communicate with the other stakeholders in all aspects and stages of investments to promote awareness of and respect for their rights as outlined in the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems].
2014
All stakeholders have a role in improving data and information collection, management, and distribution, including improving collection of gender disaggregated data. Science and evidence-based analysis and data, with supporting capacity and infrastructure for analysis are integral for targeted interventions encouraging sustainability in agriculture and food systems and contributing to food security and nutrition.
2014
All stakeholders have a role in promoting gender equality and the economic empowerment of women to support their access to productive resources and to the benefits from agricultural investments.
2014
All stakeholders should play their role in resilience building and coordinate their efforts, in order to prevent or respond to shocks, disasters, crises, including protracted crises, and conflicts. They are encouraged to support the most vulnerable, protect existing investments, and promote targeted investment in food security and nutrition, in line with the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] and States’ obligations regarding the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security.
2014
We recognize the importance of strengthening knowledge about different ways to manage risk. We note the importance of investments in research, innovation, information, communication and training to promote on-farm strategies for managing normal business risk and develop an understanding and demand for risk management tools
2017
Encourage cooperation among farmers and diversification of production, of farm activities and sources of incomes and promote international research cooperation as well
2017
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
Increase opportunities for women and youth in the agricultural sector by strengthening their active involvement in farm ownership, farm management, marketing and other agricultural and agri-food related activities, as well as improving equal access to land and other assets, so as to improve incomes and livelihoods. Facilitate international fora for sharing information on relevant policy changes and successes of policy measures which empower women and youth in the agriculture and food systems in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals on gender equality.
2016
Develop appropriate financial instruments for the capital needs of farmers and rural enterprises and disseminate knowledge to improve the role of the farm sector in FVCs to strengthen the role of agriculture in the whole food chain, recognizing the joint responsibility of governments and businesses to foster sustainable FVCs and encourage best practices. Conduct fora to benchmark best-practices, exchange policy experiences on access to credit and facilitate responsible investments in agriculture and agribusiness, especially in developing countries, gathering all relevant stakeholders in an inclusive manner.
2016
Fight against animal and plant diseases and biological threats by committing to the “One Health approach,” that emphasizes relationships between animal and human health. Promote international cooperation to tackle the threat through World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), FAO and World Health Organization (WHO), including Codex Alimentarius, as well as International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). Assist countries to implement the WHO regulations (IHR) including through the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and its common targets in 2014. Advocate for emergency management of infectious disease and capacity building in SPS areas, especially in countries and regions with underdeveloped infrastructure.
2016
Establish a cooperation framework for technical information sharing among veterinary authorities of G7 to accelerate the One Health approach to complement existing mechanisms, in order to tackle the global common challenges in public and animal health such as TADs, Biological-threats and AMR.
2016
Reduce food loss and waste, utilizing the launch of the Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Losses and Waste, which FAO and The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) developed, and share value-added approaches.
2016
Facilitate international research cooperation for climate change. Support the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA) and recognize the importance of the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA) and other climate change/agriculture-related international platforms to increase research cooperation, share results, and facilitate effective knowledge and skills transfer on voluntary and mutually agreeable terms. Share knowledge and experience on carbon stock in forests and agricultural soils while recognizing the importance of the 4/1000 Initiative and the work of FAO’s Global Soil Partnership. Outcome-based, wide-ranging research on climate change benefits the globe.
2016
Promote climate-smart, organic and ecosystem-based agriculture, where possible, and contribute to biodiversity and the health of global ecosystems, sharing best practices and evaluation methodologies.
2016
Promote cooperation on preventing the expansion of fishing in existing fisheries, the development of new fisheries, and other activities that may affect resources or habitat, unless prior assessment of its impact on the long-term sustainability of aquatic resources and marine biodiversity is conducted. Support efforts to assist developing countries evaluate their own fishing practices to reduce negative impacts on marine ecosystems. Promote measures that conserve species and critical habitats.
2016
Support multi-stakeholder initiatives to raise new, notably domestic, investments, and encourage innovative financing for nutrition, while aligning investments with partner governments’ priorities, and strengthening donor coordination.
2016
Support existing mechanisms, platforms and institutions that enhance research and development, and knowledge exchange for climate change, natural resource management and agriculture, recognizing the importance of the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security and the 4/1000 Initiative.
2016
Pilot at greater scale the use of existing practical guidance, such as the Analytical Framework for Responsible Land-based Agricultural Investment and the OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains, and further carry out outreach programmes on the VGGT and the CFS-RAI involving various stakeholders, by working with relevant partners such as the World Bank, the UNCTAD and the Rome-based UN agencies;
2016
Support the development of local food security and nutrition plans to complement national strategies and plans, and help foster policy and business environments to sustainably improve food security and nutrition and economic opportunities across the rural-to-urban spectrum, and for wider regional development.
2016
Promote complementarity and policy coherence, sharing examples and good practices for global food security and nutrition.
2016
Enhance synergies and engagement with broad stakeholders and other fora, as well as collaborating with regional efforts and taking into consideration each region’s specific context and challenges and adjusting approaches where necessary.
2016
Promote aligned actions and coherence in implementation, among all stakeholders including developing country partners, other donors, including through the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD), international and regional organizations, multilateral development banks, researchers and academics, and philanthropic organizations. Foster continued collaboration with the private sector and civil society, including through the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, and seek opportunities to engage in multi-stakeholder dialogue, making full use of relevant fora and platforms on food security and nutrition, particularly the CFS.
2016
Continue engagement on food security and nutrition with the OECD/DAC and other relevant international organizations and research institutions for better monitoring and alignment with efforts to achieve the SDGs.
2016
An international coordinated strategy needs to be encouraged in order to improve the efficiency of agri-food chains.
2009
We should create an enabling environment to improve policy coherence recognizing the linkages between agriculture and other policies such as development, health, economic, financial, trade, monetary, environmental, forestry, fisheries, education, labour and social.
2009
All relevant actors across the international financial architecture and financial ecosystem need to play a role, in line with respective mandates, in improving availability of and access to sustainable finance in the food and agriculture sector to effectively enable small scale and family farmers and fisherfolk, pastoralists, agro-enterprises, cooperatives and other operators within food value chains to invest more in sustainable food systems, particularly in developing and least developed countries.
2021
Facilitate smooth and timely adoption by producers and stakeholders, including collaboration with non agro-food sectors, in order to maximize their full potential in raising productivity and sustainability of the agro-food sector.
2019
Reaffirm the importance of comprehensive approaches to risk assessment, management and communication in FVCs, to strengthen the stakeholders’ capacities to manage risks. At the same time, underline that transparency in food markets can enable farmers to earn better incomes and help mitigate food price volatility.
2019
Acknowledge the importance of the efforts so far to reduce, prepare for and manage risks, emphasizing the need for an effective policy environment in which all stakeholders of the agro-food sector can choose optimal risk management measures.
2019
Enhance information sharing and supporting activities of international organizations including the OIE and of implementing OIE standards, in particular, those that are relevant to tackling transboundary animal diseases such as African Swine Fever and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.
2019
Continue efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through balanced and multi-sectoral approaches, tackling this issue through “One Health” national action plans, including terrestrial and aquatic animals and agriculture throughout the food chain.
2019
Highlight the role and responsibility of international organizations in improving and promoting global food safety and nutrition for protecting the health of consumers.
2019
Recognize the importance of learning through exchange of good practices, accumulating knowledge for all concerned stakeholders, within the G20 and beyond.
2019
The challenges the agro-food sector is facing must be tackled more than ever by the collective action of all relevant players, locally, nationally and internationally. Encourage collaboration of all stakeholders, including industry, civil society, academia, policymakers, and international organizations.
2019
Need for collaboration and knowledge exchange to address global issues
2019
Continue to support initiatives proactively, including through voluntary financial contributions, especially in those cases most in need, such as AMIS, as well as with timely and reliable information where so required, to ensure their continued work.
2019
Encourage on-going discussions in inter-sectorial or interdisciplinary fora such as Tripartite Plus (WHO, FAO, OIE and UNEP), Codex, IPPC, and other United Nations related bodies including the General Assembly, acknowledging the role of the agro-food sector in ensuring the “One Health” approach is effective on a global basis.
2019
Recognizing that well trained people are one of the most important assets for the future, knowledge and inputs are encouraged from non-agricultural sectors in human development and lifelong education for all.
2019
Encourage cooperation with civil society and private actors to prevent food loss and waste at the processing, retail and consumer level, and sharing practices and technology regarding the reduction of pre-and post-harvest losses with developing countries.
2019
A sustainable, integrated and inclusive future for food systems requires concerted efforts and can only be achieved on the basis of collaboration among governments, community, civil society, the various stakeholders in the food supply chain and the educational and research communities, while also strengthening the international mechanisms created thus far.
2018
Encourage collaboration among countries, international organizations, civil societies, the educational and research communities and the private sector to strengthen risk management, facilitate adaptation to a changing environment and provide efficient and effective responses to reduce the impacts of extreme weather on agriculture.
2018
Promote sustainable agriculture and the fight against climate change through collaborative partnerships, encouraging interdisciplinary approaches and involving farmers in the co-development and evaluation of sustainable agriculture systems, to accelerate the adoption of new technologies and management practices, and to revitalize sustainable traditional farming systems.
2018
Continue strengthening institutions that promote soil health, in multiple dimensions and approaches, and coordinate actions and initiatives among them.
2018
The exchange of experiences on policy measures and knowledge on new technologies contributes to the creation and diversification of conditions that promote the development of sustainable production systems and strengthen rural and urban economies.
2018
Land-use management, and secure land tenure, are valuable tools for sustainable soil management. Loss of agricultural land, including soil sealing, due to urban expansion, and infrastructure development, which is often carried out at the expense of fertile agricultural soil, can be a threat to potential agricultural production, and its associated ecosystem services. Therefore, an open discussion of this topic, promoting consensus, to facilitate the sustainable use potential, as a basis for the establishment and progress of our society is strongly encouraged.
2018
The current flood of data, information and communication suggests the need to balance the Big Data and Smart Analytics approaches, as well as the promotion of skilled farmers and professionals capable of interpreting data streams. Real benefits will need the development and dissemination of smarter decision support systems, and a robust interaction with R&D systems and communities. They will also require building a confident climate to enable farmers and stakeholders to share data, making the benefits from digitalization as inclusive as possible.
2018
Promote academic, scientific and technological activities, and foster interdisciplinary experience exchanges at institutions and cooperatives.
2018
Promote interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral approaches, as well as joint actions with the Ministries responsible for human health, animal health, environment and research in order to design national policies and help their implementation by the relevant stakeholders, mainly through “One Health-based” national action plan.
2018
Encourage public-private cooperation, supporting the scientific community for the research and development of new antimicrobials as well as new technologies (e.g. rapid diagnostics, vaccines and alternative treatments) that help prevent infection and reduce inappropriate antimicrobial use.
2018
It will be necessary to further explore the possibilities for establishing ICT cooperation mechanisms.
2018
Support the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and international and regional organizations in their efforts to foster even closer and more effective partnerships, and promote actions by all stakeholders at global, regional and national levels, taking into account national conditions, needs and expectations.
2016
Support efforts made by the international community to exchange experiences, share knowledge and adopt technology for sustainable agricultural development, and replicate best farming practices conducive to the protection and appropriate utilization of land, forests and water resources.
2016
Build multi-tiered and multi-faceted governance systems for food security in developing countries, ensuring global effort.
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
Pursue comprehensive and coordinated governance measures through a multi-tiered, multi-faceted system.
2016
Expedite dissemination of R&D deliverables by building better connections between researchers and farmers.
2016
Special efforts are needed to promote training programmes and skills development and improved access to productive resources for smallholders, women and youth. Explore mechanisms, including south-south and triangular cooperation, to share successful experiences in skills anticipation and matching, apprenticeship and work-linked training pathways and improved access to productive assets.
2015
Strengthen the dissemination of best practices of the most effective policies and programs in the area of nutrition-sensitive social protection and enhance the exchange of experience and lessons learned among developing countries through the support of peer-to-peer cooperation, facilitation of relevant international and regional events as well as promotion of existing platforms and knowledge hubs.
2015
Increase agricultural productivity through the adoption of existing innovations as well as new research and technologies.
2015
Increase efforts to effectively engage with the private sector to pursue common goals.
2015
Ensure stronger alignment of the Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists with the objective of achieving productivity growth and sustainable food systems.
2015
Enhance cooperation and exchange of information among G20 members and with low income and developing countries to share policy experiences and successful practices in advisory, extension and agricultural innovation systems.
2015
Improve coordination among responsible government authorities for the identification and implementation of policies to promote responsible public and private investments in infrastructure, irrigation, protection of soils, open and transparent markets, technologies, knowledge sharing, rural services including financial services, extension and advisory services, social protection programs, health and safety at work, employment services and vocational training and education.
2015
Promote international collaboration to identify global research priorities and facilitate collaboration between public and private sector organizations in the key areas most likely to drive sustainable productivity gains. MACS should consider these needs and propose ways to support the G20 agenda on agriculture and food security issues with a particular focus on supporting transition towards sustainable agricultural and food systems.
2015
Adopt technologies and share knowledge as much as new research and innovation. Adoption will not happen without favorable policy and regulatory environments and effective and locally adapted technical advisory and extension services.
2015
While specific actions to combat food loss and waste may vary by country and food system, priority of action should be based on prevention and recovery of safe and nutritious wasted food to feed people rather than re-purposing it for other uses. Promote this hierarchy of action to improve food system efficiencies and reduce food insecurity, taking into account national circumstances and market-based approaches.
2015
There is value in a common definition and measurement framework that G20 members can consider in order to establish coherent estimates of food loss and waste against which they can monitor progress in the reduction of food loss and waste.
2015
Taking into account the role played by agricultural policy in promoting sustainable food systems and food security, greater cooperation and exchange of information among G20 members on policy experiences and successful practices in these respects and their sharing with non-member countries is essential.
2015
Recognize the Global Initiative for Food Loss and Waste Reduction (SaveFood).
2015
FAO together with IFPRI and other relevant international organizations should establish a platform, building on existing systems, for sharing information and experiences in measuring and reducing food loss and waste. This platform should include experiences of G20 members and other countries and also focus on low-income developing countries.
2015
WHO, FAO and other relevant international institutions should continue to improve the capacities of the standard setting bodies such as CODEX, IPPC and OIE to provide scientific advice and guidance to all countries.
2015
Ensure coordination across sectors for effective food security governance
2020
Implement a comprehensive transformation in the food system including food production, processing, distribution and consumption in order to address outstanding food security and nutrition challenges.
2020
Improve policy coordination in all relevant sectors including, for example, agriculture, environment, economy, energy, trade and health to improve policy responses to issues such as food availability, malnutrition, food safety and disease.
2020
When developing action plans for minimizing the impact of COVID-19, governments need to take into account the broader interactions with food security and nutrition.
2020
Collect and share data, information and experiences on the status and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food systems and draw lessons learned.
2020
The agriculture sector should engage the health and environment sectors in establishing policies and programmes that are nutrition-driven and environmentally sustainable.
2020
The health sector should engage the agriculture and environment sectors in addressing overweight/obesity and malnutrition in all its forms, and illnesses associated with food- system-related chemical and microbial exposures.
2020
Enhance FSN governance and coordination at the global level to strengthen and renew commitment to multilateral cooperation.
2020
CFS and its member states should consider making their commitments legally binding through an appropriate multilateral agreement.
2020
National governments should support existing efforts to ensure representative participation in FSN governance, e.g. creating or strengthening participatory and inclusive FSN national committees.
2020
Encourage the development of a global initiative to model the global food system to predict future shocks and to forecast the likely impact of different solution pathways for sustainable food systems.
2020
Assess knowledge gaps and research needs to address various challenges to inform policies to achieve food system transformation, such as the interconnectedness of food systems with all relevant sectors and systems.
2020
Governments must guarantee tenure security for smallholder farmers over land and natural resources, by implementing the Voluntary guidelines on responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries, and forests. They must also take relevant measures to improve cooperation and governance in the management of common property resources, including open-range pastoral resources, biodiversity, water, forestry and fisheries. Women’s rights to land and natural resources use must be developed and strengthened. Governments should improve access to land by various means including land reform processes, making use of the lessons learned from other countries’ experiences.
2013
Upgrade and finance national research and extension systems targeted specifically to the needs of smallholders, with supporting financial mechanisms. The main objective would be to increase productivity and resilience through diversification of the production system with a high concern for the self-provision of diverse foods with a high nutritional value. Combining increased productivity and resilience will require a high level of investment in research to develop productive land-use systems with minimal ecological risk such that biodiversity may be used productively and conserved. Agricultural research and extension should support the in-situ and ex-situ conservation of agricultural biodiversity in the context of climate change. Agro-ecological approaches and production ecological principles may be instrumental. Smallholder farmers need appropriate seeds as well as machinery for field operation, food processing and other value-adding transformations. International collaboration and the sharing of experiences in technology development for smallholder farmers in different regions of the world should be promoted with a strong engagement, if not leadership, of smallholder organizations.
2013
Enhance governance for agriculture and rural development. Extensive market failures for agriculture and smallholders, and the need to coordinate public and private investments and programmes in a territorial perspective, require appropriate governance. Governance for agriculture and territorial development requires going beyond the traditional ministries of agriculture. Different solutions must to be tailored to national political and institutional contexts. Early lessons from implementation of the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) and the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP) offer an opportunity to reflect on best practices across countries and regions for investments in support of smallholder farmers.
2013
Technical and operational upgrading of farmer organizations and other rural collectives representing marginalized groups: Investments must focus on addressing enduring gaps in governance, operations, financing and policy engagement. Governance investments must aim to increase transparency and legitimacy, building on existing social capital.
2016
Making cross-sectoral collaboration the norm.
2021
Building new partnerships to finance a quarter century of food system transformation
2021
Adopting an international agreement on food emergencies.
2021
Enhance the performance of producer organizations
2008
Reframe thinking by promoting ‘resource-smart food systems’ in which ‘Climate-Smart Agriculture’ (CSA) plays one part, and search for linkages to new dominant values such as ‘wellbeing’ and ‘health’.
2016
Donors have a critical influence on all actors in the system, and are especially important at national level in supporting host countries to develop a regulatory and policy framework that supports integrated food systems.
2022
Invest in new institutional arrangements to support integrated cross-sector planning and policy.
2022
Invest in processes of systems analysis, and informed stakeholder engagement, dialogue and collective problem-solving.
2022
Invest in enhancing the capacity of stakeholders, and in particular government ministry and agency staff to broker systems approaches to change.
2022
Develop a deeper understanding of the intervention context from a systems perspective through dialogue with partner governments and other key stakeholders.
2022
Support collective efforts to further develop national food systems transformation pathways, as appropriate.
2022
Align donor country investments with national pathways and other national plans and strategies to ensure a balanced coverage of national priorities across the investments of individual donors.
2022
Engage actively in national-level donor, sectoral and United Nations coordination mechanisms, and encourage such mechanisms to operate with a food systems perspective.
2022
Individually and collectively invest more efforts in learning lessons from field-level projects about food systems transformation and connect these lessons to national-level policy learning processes with particular attention to policy coherence.
2022
Work domestically and collectively with partner governments on how to bring about a change in support measures for the agriculture and food sectors to better incentivize sustainable food systems.
2022
Renew collective efforts across donors, the financial sector, governments and development agencies/non-governmental organizations to provide the financial and business support services needed by the micro-, small- and medium-scale enterprise (MSME) sector.
2022
Encourage conscious efforts across all sectors to integrate the CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems into investments and business practices.
2022
Support initiatives which bring private sector actors to the table with policymakers, civil society and researchers to explore sustainable food system solutions.
2022
Facilitate the co-design of policy mechanisms between the private sector (including larger firms, MSMEs and farmers’ organizations), national governments and other stakeholders.
2022
Support environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive value chain and sector development by investing in the processes that enable coordination among value chain actors and the collective implementation of sustainable and equitable practices.
2022
Invest in public-private partnerships, which can extend the reach of resilient market-based solutions to poorer producers and communities through inclusive business models.
2022
Align with other donors to support national-level food systems policy innovation processes, including applied research, stakeholder engagement and capacity development.
2022
Invest in cross-country food systems policy learning at regional and global scales, including South-South and triangular exchange.
2022
Work to ensure coherence between donor countries’ own food systems related policies and policy change in partner countries, particularly in relation to sector support, trade and regulations governing business practices.
2022
Align and coordinate on consistent metrics for food systems outcomes and ensure that data can be disaggregated by gender and age whenever possible, with special attention to the most vulnerable.
2022
Coordinate to ensure an overall research and data agenda and that all key aspects are being adequately funded on a consistent basis over time.
2022
Encourage and support effective multistakeholder engagement processes at local and national levels, which includes building capacity to design and facilitate such processes within government and by non-state actors.
2022
Encourage and support cross-ministerial and whole-of-government mechanisms to help drive national food systems transformation
2022
Collaborate with the United Nations Food Systems Coordination Hub to ensure an effective follow-up to the implementation of the Summit’s outcomes.
2022
Support regional intergovernmental forums, multistakeholder networks and think tanks, as relevant, which can help to strengthen regional cooperation on food systems transformation – for example, on issues of trade, policy innovation, cross-boundary natural resources management or scientific collaboration.
2022
Keep food systems and related issues as priority issues for consideration by leaders in the G20 and G7, and forge connections with other forums and summits – for example, COP27+ and the World Economic Forum.
2022
Maintain and strengthen support for civil society organizations (including producer organizations, consumer groups, women’s forums, youth groups and indigenous groups) that are working on food systems, and enable them to bring a balancing power and accountability to the interests of business and the State.
2022
Work in a much more integrated way across the traditional silos of agriculture, health, environment, economic development, infrastructure and trade.
2021
Investments in the food system can help to deliver on a wider set of development outcomes, and a food systems framing can help to identify synergistic ways of using existing aid resources.
2021
Careful thought and deeper analysis will be required to rebalance the food systems portfolio of aid activities with the outcomes of the FSS, with a particular focus on country-level assessment.
2021
Renewed/continued efforts of coordination are critical for effective and efficient resource use.
2021
Coordination of in-country investments to ensure that they align with country priorities and planning frameworks is essential.
2021
Food systems framing requires new coordination processes, including: alignment of approaches, concepts and interventions strategies; geographical and thematic areas covered to ensure a balanced spread of resources; joint initiatives to create a critical mass of investment and reduced transaction costs; common monitoring and reporting frameworks; alignment on the types of global and regional initiatives that will be supported and for what purposes.
2021
Cross the traditional divide between the concerns of poorer and wealthier nations. Link North and South agendas.
2021
Work in a much more integrated way across the traditional silos of agriculture, health, environment, economic development, infrastructure and trade.
2021
Given the diversity of each country’s political context, the repurposing support efforts will need strong institutions on a local, national and global level, as well as engaging and incentivizing stakeholders from the public sector, the private sector and international organizations. The engagement of SMEs and civil society groups will be key to balancing out unequal powers within agrifood systems.
2022
Given the diversity of each country’s political context, the repurposing support efforts will need strong institutions on a local, national and global level, as well as engaging and incentivizing stakeholders from the public sector, the private sector and international organizations. The engagement of SMEs and civil society groups will be key to balancing out unequal powers within agrifood systems.
2022
Given the diversity of each country’s political context, the repurposing support efforts will need strong institutions on a local, national and global level, as well as engaging and incentivizing stakeholders from the public sector, the private sector and international organizations. The engagement of SMEs and civil society groups will be key to balancing out unequal powers within agrifood systems.
2022
Coherence in the formulation and implementation of policies and investments among food, health, social protection and environmental systems is also essential to build on synergies towards more efficient and effective food systems solutions to deliver affordable healthy diets, sustainably and inclusivity.
2021
Challenges can be overcome through the formulation and implementation of cross-sectoral portfolios of policies, investments and legislation that comprehensively address the negative food security and nutrition effects of the multiple drivers impacting on food systems.
2021
In policy development and the implementation of transformative action, territorial approaches advocate for cross-sectoral and multi-level governance mechanisms, as well as coherence across different spatial levels, while focusing on linkages and opportunities between systems in a given territory.
2021
Developing co-responsible, circular food systems through reciprocity, solidarity and safety nets that influence corporate responsibility beyond the life of a given product. Circularity and co-responsibility within food systems can ensure that externalities are absorbed in the prices and ensure that the current waste generated by the food systems is moved away from inorganic waste residues towards organic ones and thus reincorporated into the system as an input.
2021
Challenges can be overcome through the formulation and implementation of cross-sectoral portfolios of policies, investments and legislation that comprehensively address the negative food security and nutrition effects of the multiple drivers impacting on food systems.
2021
Interventions along food supply chains are needed to increase the availability of safe and nutritious foods and lower their cost, primarily as a means to increase the affordability of healthy diets. This pathway calls for a coherent set of policies and investments from production to consumption aimed at realizing efficiency gains and cutting food losses and waste to help achieve these objectives.
2021
Participate in partnerships with governments and other partners supporting the development of comprehensive policy frameworks and/or adjustments and reform of key regulations enabling agroecology and sustainable food systems transition.
2021
Facilitate exchange and learning between regions among IFAD staff and government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community and private sector development partners.
2021
Engage collaboratively in partnerships.
2021
Align and integrate coalitions and solutions.
2021
Ensure openness and transparency.
2021
Facilitate conflict resolution and negotiate trade-offs. Spotlighting the need for conflict resolution and trade-offs came with recognition that the urgency of food systems transformation means that disagreements must not become bottlenecks that stop the transition to more sustainable and equitable systems.
2021
Build global transformation momentum across systems.
2021
Optimize and, if needed, repurpose current data-related investments, while increasing collaboration between international organizations, governments, civil society, academia and the private sector, to harmonize and maximize the sharing of existing FSN data.
2022
Academic institutions throughout the world should coordinate to consolidate existing FSN data and respond to the need for continued innovation in the areas of data science and survey-based research to address FSN questions.
2022
International organizations that produce key FSN data should form a joint commission to harmonize and coordinate the release of datasets, avoiding the publication of competing datasets on important FSN domains (such as food commodity balances, food prices and market prospects, food security assessments, etc.).
2022
The application of behavioural science is an essential innovation that enables governments, scientists and the public to work together to develop evidence-based approaches to increase access to affordable healthy diets, as well as empower consumers to choose healthy diets.
2023
Building relationships and collective processes together with trusted representatives of the private sector, especially relevant market players, as well as governments and researchers in both social and natural sciences, can be critical in developing sustainable marketing strategies for Indigenous Peoples’ food products.
2023
The development of cross-collaborative engagement among producers, processors, retailers and distributors will be critical in driving the shift from the current, linear “take–make–consume–dispose” model of the agrifood value chain, towards more circular systemic approaches to ensure sustainability.
2023
Policymaking processes should facilitate interjurisdictional agreements and regulations, as well as the participation of a variety (including non-governmental) of actors.
2023
Due to the multisectoral nature of the challenges and opportunities that urbanization creates across the rural–urban continuum, subnational governments should also be important actors for formulating and implementing coherent policies that go beyond agrifood systems (e.g. environmental, energy, health and other systems).
2023
Food self-sufficiency policies will exacerbate, not solve global food insecurity. Policies should not segment markets but aim at creating more opportunities for a larger number of countries—helping global markets to become more diversified and inclusive.
2022
States, intergovernmental organizations, the private sector and civil society should work across sectors to ensure more equitable access to land, forests, aquatic resources and other food-production resources, applying rights-based approaches.
2023
States, intergovernmental organizations, private sector and civil society should facilitate the organization of disadvantaged stakeholders and build inclusive institutions and partnerships to improve representation.
2023
Build and support farmer, fisher, peasant, food-producer, landless and migrant worker organizations; self-help groups and cooperatives; as well as labour organizations throughout food systems – particularly including women – to ensure better representation and agency. Explicit consideration should be given to inclusivity in participation and group decision-making and the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining.
2023
Leverage the benefits of collective action to improve access to inputs, finance, information, value chain opportunities, certification/standards and market opportunities, as well as decent work, safe working conditions and a living income based on careful consideration of, and with a clear plan to address, local contexts and power asymmetries.
2023
Ensure greater transparency in the preparation of international and bilateral trade and investment negotiations, and develop systems to support domestic decision-making, coordinated between sectors involved in food, the environment, public health, industry and trade, to ensure that issues of equity are considered and that marginalized groups have a say.
2023
States, intergovernmental organizations, the private sector and civil society should leverage SDG 10 (‘reduce inequalities’) to address the systemic drivers of unequal distribution, access and representation, including by mainstreaming participatory approaches in policymaking and practice to amplify marginalized voices.
2023
Create interministerial platforms on food security and nutrition, with the participation of agriculture, livestock, fisheries, forest, health, economy and finance, and trade ministries to enable the convergence of ministerial actions in food security and nutrition policy, and charge and equip these platforms to have a strong focus on reducing inequalities.
2023
Strengthen inclusive spaces for dialogue, participation and coordinated action at global, national and local levels that centre on building equity, including within negotiations on climate, trade and investment agreements and related policy fora.
2023
States, intergovernmental organizations and civil society should take into account the context of climate, ecological, political and economic crises in all food security and nutrition-related actions.
2023
Work across the humanitarian–development–peace nexus to address the multiple drivers and manifestations of food security and nutrition inequalities in fragile states.
2023
Explore the option of establishing a fund, for example using the country-level funding for the follow-up to the UNFSS, to support transformation towards more equitable food systems.
2023
Governments should foster policy coordination and coherence across sectors and agencies to reduce all forms of malnutrition from a food systems perspective.
2021
Governments should include the sustainability of food systems as a priority in order to effectively align relevant sectors around a common set of goals.
2021
Governments should integrate and promote sustainable food system strategies and actions that enable healthy diets and improved nutrition into national and local development, health, economic, agricultural, climate/environment, and disaster risk and pandemic diseases reduction policies.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities should encourage increased commitment to action with responsible investment from the public and private sectors, and donors to support sustainable food systems that enable healthy diets, while considering synergies and trade-offs with other policy priorities.
2021
Governments should invest in research and sharing of knowledge on the interconnections between food, nutritional, behavioral, economic, social, and environmental dimensions and market dynamics, to better enable the assessment of the cross-sectional impacts of the policies and programmes implemented and the complexity of the interactions between supply and demand at different scales throughout the wholesupply chain.
2021
Governments, with the support of all relevant stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities, as appropriate, should promote investment in human, system, and institutional capacity to analyze food system information in a comprehensive manner to support the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of programmatic actions, taking into account the need of developing interdisciplinary approaches embracing technical, economic and social issues.
2021
Governments, development partners, civil society and non-governmental organizations and private sector should collaborate with food producers and their organizations for them to achieve decent livelihoods and to enhance the resilience of food supply chains to climate change impacts by managing risk and building preparedness and resilience and by mitigating food supply chains negative impacts on the environment.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, private sector, civil society and other relevant stakeholders should promote sustainable agriculture such as agroecological and other innovative approaches, at different scales in the process towards achieving sustainable food systems that enhance food security and nutrition. They also should collaborate with and support farmers and other food producers to reduce the environmental impact of food systems, enhancing also biodiversity and recognizing the positive efforts of farmers that adopt sustainable practices.
2021
Governments, private sector, research centers and universities and other relevant stakeholders should promote enabling environments to assist and facilitate food producers‘ access to affordable, innovative technologies and practices, including traditional knowledge, technical assistance, skill training, inclusive and sustainable business models adapted to local needs and priorities, and information about nutrition and healthy diets through sustainable food systems within agriculture and other extension technical services/programmes, to enable them to promote sustainable production, protect biodiversity, ensure food safety, and improve the nutritional quality of foods for markets.
2021
Governments, in consultation with consumer associations and local residents, can promote local food retailers and markets to increase the number, variety, and sale of sustainably produced safe and nutritious foods, both locally grown and globally sourced, that contribute to healthy diets through sustainable food systems.
2021
Safeguards for the identification and management of potential conflicts of interest should be put in place.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, private sector, civil society and non-governmental organizations, small-scale food producers and workers and their organizations, and other relevant stakeholders should support food and nutrition dialogues with indigenous peoples and local communities, farmer field schools and agriculture extension services by sharing the knowledge, experience and insights of individuals who are not usually regarded as members of the nutrition community (e.g. community and religious leaders, chefs, food systems suppliers, retailers and consumers, youth leaders, farmers and food producers, young entrepreneurs, small-scale food producers and workers and their organizations, health care workers, mayors and local communities).
2021
Intergovernmental organizations and development partners should, with the consent of governments, where appropriate, involve local non-governmental organizations, private sector and other relevant stakeholders, including appropriate safeguards for the identification and management of potential conflicts of interests, in the implementation of humanitarian food assistance and livelihood programmes to support economic recovery and development, strengthen sustainable local food systems and foster the ability of smallholders and/or family farmers to access resources to bolster production and markets.
2021
Enhance policy coherence and coordination of agroecological and other innovative approaches across sectors consistent with para 26 of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition (CFS-VGFSyN).
2019
Encourage data collection (differentiated by factors including gender and farm size) and analysis at national level, documentation of lessons learned and information sharing at all levels to support evaluation of the performance of agroecological and other innovative approaches.
2019
Strengthen policy instruments and coherence for the conservation of biodiversity for food and agriculture, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources and support the important past, present and future contributions of producers and researchers for the development, conservation and improvement of biodiversity, taking into account, as appropriate, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the recommendations of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, (for those states which have ratified those Treaties).
2019
Strengthen research, innovation, training, and education and foster knowledge co-creation, knowledge sharing and co-learning, on agroecological and other innovative approaches.
2019
Deepen the horizontal exchange of knowledge and experiences between producers and other relevant actors of food systems at the local, national, regional and international levels.
2019
Support innovation platforms for transdisciplinary research that foster co-learning between practitioners (e.g. producer organizations) and researchers; these may include producer-to-producer networks, communities of practice, “transdisciplinary labs”, and decentralized centers of excellence.
2019
Support the horizontal sharing of knowledge and experiences building on existing producers’ organizations and networks, including processes designed specifically by and for women, youth, indigenous peoples and local communities.
2019
Include safeguards for the identification and management of possible conflicts of interest and against power imbalances.
2019
Recognize researchers who engage in transdisciplinary research.
2019
Support innovation platforms for transdisciplinary research that foster co-learning between practitioners (e.g. producer organizations) and researchers; these may include producer-to-producer networks, communities of practice, “transdisciplinary labs”, and decentralized centers of excellence.
2019
Donors should instigate a collective review of funding modalities for food systems transformation and rural development with a view to creating a shared guiding framework for optimizing the complementarity of differing funding streams.
2023
In consultation with partner governments and other actors at the national and local levels, donors should explore the types of support needed to drive longer-term structural change to achieve desired food systems outcomes. This requires an enhanced theory of change analysis for country investment strategies, focusing on the “how” of food systems transformation.
2023
At the country level, donors and governments must recognize the importance and value of an articulated negotiation process around food systems transformation.
2023
Donors should examine whether existing global mechanisms enable sufficient donor coordination and alignment and, if not, look at how this could be strengthened in the context of existing institutional arrangements.
2023
Collectively support the monitoring and evaluation of coordination at the national level on food systems, agriculture and rural development.
2023
Encourage and support ongoing multi-stakeholder national dialogue processes linked with implementing, reviewing and updating national pathways.
2023
Undertake meta-evaluations of country-level evaluations of the effectiveness of coordination.
2023
Collectively support efforts to document and share lessons learned and best practices from ongoing coordination efforts at the country level in the area of food systems and in other allied areas, such as health, water and sanitation.
2023
Acknowledge the value of a more structured approach to collaborative planning at the national level.
2023
Utilize national food systems transformation pathways as a basis for collaborative planning.
2023
Work with partner governments to ensure that donor investments support the “soft” investments needed in stakeholder dialogue, to improve systems change capabilities and for policy reform to transform food systems.
2023
Consider options for impartial convening of collaborative planning processes that enable all development partners (including the private sector) to come to a neutral table.
2023
Work towards building alliances and partnerships with key actors and stakeholders engaged in the food systems ecosystem.
2023
Donors should develop their own internal guiding principles and policies on country-level coordination around food systems that specifically address how to engage in collaborative programming for food systems transformation at the country level. In particular, donors should consider how to create stronger institutional incentives for effective coordination.
2023
In consultation with partner governments, donors should draw on lessons learned from mapping donor investments at the country level to explore options for a common framework and data infrastructure that could be used in a flexible way across multiple countries. If there is sufficient support, donors should invest in supporting the development of the necessary data infrastructure.
2023
Facilitate adoption and implementation of international instruments, coordination mechanisms and guidelines supporting responsible fisheries governance.
2023
Develop innovation transfer and upscale successful aquaculture examples through cooperation programmes and public-private partnerships.
2023
Efforts to harmonize or simplify the nutrition and environment labelling of food products should be coordinated by public authorities at the national, regional and international levels to improve the labels’ relevance for consumers and limit the risk of creating unnecessary trade barriers.
2023
Improve the coherence of policies across sectors and levels of government to address land and water-related objectives and ecosystems.
2023
Foster partnerships between public and private sectors to invest in infrastructure, logistics, and technology innovations that streamline the supply chain and minimize losses.
2023