Recommendations for "Resilience (184 results)"
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
Improve risk mitigation and adaptation strategies. Farmers, and in particular smallholders, urgently need better access to risk-management tools and strategies to increase their resilience to myriad shocks, including price and weather.
2013
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
Reduce risks associated with price volatility through supportive macroeconomic policies. National governments should encourage transparent, fair, and open global trade by eliminating formal and informal export restrictions and refraining from imposing new ones. Although export bans may help secure domestic food supplies, they tend to exacerbate global price hikes, thus hurting the poorest net buyers of food.
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
Link agriculture, nutrition and health. A more integrated approach is needed to increase smallholders’ productivity and improve their nutrition and health status. Investments to increase smallholder productivity should therefore be leveraged to improve nutrition and health in developing countries.
2013
Institutional innovations and cooperation—such as public-private partnerships, producer organizations, and group certification—are needed to help smallholders gain access to information, technologies, and training to satisfy food safety regulations, especially in transforming and transformed economies.
2013
Innovation in insurance schemes need to be accompanied by investment in infrastructure (such as weather stations for weather-based indexes) and capacity building of farmers and providers.
2013
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
Insurance tools that could potentially help farmers manage risks range from basic weather and agricultural insurance to more sophisticated hedging options such as futures contracts and loan-guarantee funds. Other innovative instruments include partial premium support (in conjunction with capacity-building efforts and regulatory reforms) and “insurance-for-work” schemes.
2013
Pursue productivity-enhancing risks such as adopting new technologies and switching to high-value crops.
2013
Prioritize investments and find the appropriate mix of flexible climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and tools with the highest productivity-enhancing impact among different types of farmers, crops, and regions.
2013
Access to knowledge in improved and more sustainable farming techniques, including climate-smart production methods, are key to increasing productivity and maintaining profitability, and producing marketable surpluses at reduced costs, while increasing the resilience of food systems.
2020
Agricultural policies that encourage a move away from monoculture towards more integrated production techniques, such as agroforestry and rice-fish farming, should be considered as this helps reduce the cost of production, increase food producers’ incomes and resilience, provide ecosystem services, and increase dietary diversity.
2020
In response to COVID-19, governments moved to strengthen food safety nets and social protection mechanisms to maintain access to food. Specific government measures could also address the impact of income reductions through subsidies, tax breaks and transfers to those affected. These measures are indispensable to preserve the gains realized in the reduction of food insecurity levels over recent decades.
2020
Increased awareness on the contribution of trade and global value chains to growth and food security is important in addressing the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Policies that promote international trade add to efficiency gains and strengthen resilience to shocks.
2020
Continuous research and analysis on the potential impacts of digital technologies on agricultural and food markets, their structure and their functioning are crucial to anticipate disruptive effects better and to promote sustainable outcomes.
2020
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
A focus on peoples’ assets or different types of capital is central not only to understanding the impacts of climate shocks on livelihoods and coping and adaptation strategies, but also to identifying key factors to be considered for policy design and the implementation of programmes aimed at improving food security and nutrition. A focus on assets or capital also helps to establish what resources are available and accessible in order to aid in adaptation.
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
Climate resilience is key and requires context-specific interventions aimed at anticipating, limiting, and adapting to the effects of climate variability and extremes and building the resilience of livelihoods, food systems and nutrition to climate shocks and stresses. When designing policies and programmes it is important to consider that adaptation has limits in some contexts. This may necessitate the transformation of systems themselves in a manner that leads to increased resilience.
2018
To be successful across livelihoods and food systems and to address food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition, climate resilience policies and programmes should be built around climate risk assessments, science and interdisciplinary cross-sectoral knowledge, and participatory and inclusive blended humanitarian and development approaches driven by the needs of climate-vulnerable groups. . Climate risk assessments are fundamental for understanding risks and impacts across agriculture, food security and nutrition sectors in order to adequately evaluate options and inform decision-making.
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
Implementation of climate resilience policies and programmes means adopting and refitting tools and interventions such as: risk monitoring and early warning systems; emergency preparedness and response; vulnerability reduction measures; shock-responsive social protection, risk transfers and forecast-based financing; and strong risk governance structures in the environment–food–health system nexus.
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
Systematic documentation of good practices for climate resilience should be planned at the outset of the design of any intervention. Indicators should be defined not only to monitor and evaluate impact but also to capture the process of implementation in order to understand why some solutions work over others.
2018
Supporting climate resilience-building efforts requires site-specific solutions that are owned by the communities that they intend to help. A participatory, inclusive, equitable and gender-based approach is critical to bringing local stakeholders together to identify needs through a better understanding of the climate vulnerabilities and risks faced by communities and individuals. Likewise, it is important to take advantage of autonomous (i.e. local) knowledge and practices when addressing climate variability and extremes. Engaging local people and encouraging open community consultation when designing and implementing interventions helps to build community ownership and ensure long-term sustainability, while also taking into account cultural and gender issues.
2018
A range of locally appropriate climate-resilient options should be designed and implemented through inclusive and gender-sensitive participatory processes. These should be present throughout, beginning with the initial vulnerability and risk analysis, continuing through the prioritization of choices and moving forward to the implementation of measures, taking into account the availability of local resources and the anticipated costs and benefits in the short and long term.
2018
Building resilience to climate variability and extremes requires gender-sensitive policies, planning, budgets, technologies, practices and processes accessible to both men and women farmers. Building resilience thus requires
a solid understanding of gender-based
differences and interventions that are risk- and
gender-responsive.
2018
Nutrition-sensitive and risk-responsive social protection programmes can also safeguard nutrition before and during climate shocks, especially if they allow households or nutritionally vulnerable groups – such as young children and pregnant and lactating mothers – to be able to afford nutrient-rich locally produced foods and maintain dietary diversity before, during and after a shock.
2018
Climate risk strategies need to include local diet quality goals, which can be achieved when there is a better understanding of: how longer-term climate change will affect the suitability of local crops in a specific site; whether access to fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and dairy products will be disrupted; and what new agricultural and livelihood practices avoid jeopardizing people’s basic nutritional food basket.
2018
It is important to have stronger surveillance systems in place that can identify food safety issues and infectious diseases, so that control systems can rapidly and accurately notify populations at local, national and international levels. Enhance early warning systems and emergency preparedness for rapid response and recovery from extreme climate events; and protect critical health infrastructure from extreme climate events.
2018
Investment in universal health coverage that both ensures primary health care interventions and builds community resilience is key. Funding needs to address the determinants of environmental and social health (such as housing safety and air, water and food quality) under various climate conditions; improve social welfare in emergency situations; and provide essential nutrition actions, including screening for and managing cases of child and adult malnutrition. It is equally important to take into account the diverse composition of modern communities (including migrants and different ethnicities) as well as differences in health-seeking behaviours.
2018
Vulnerability reduction measures combine disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation practices aiming to prevent and mitigate the impact of climate events and variability at community, farm and agro-ecosystem levels. These include the application of climate-resilient and climate-smart agricultural good practices as well as climate-proofed infrastructures and nature-based solutions and thus need investments at scale.
2018
Social protection mechanisms can help to reduce disaster risk vulnerability and strengthen livelihoods against the impact of a range of shocks, enabling more people to anticipate risks, bounce back better and faster and become more resilient.
2018
Safety nets are a subset of social protection and can be used as direct social assistance instruments for the poor with the aim of responding to and managing climate-related disasters. They include distributing food assistance; subsidizing prices for foodstuffs; providing vouchers, coupons or school meals; and providing support through cash transfers or public works activities. The choice of an instrument or combination of instruments depends on the context and goal.
2018
Risk transfers can also help significantly reduce (though not fully eliminate) the negative impacts of climate variability and extremes. Recent innovative solutions of risk transfer, such as climate risk insurance and forecast-based financing, are helping to formally or informally shift the financial consequences of particular risks from one party to another, at the level of the household, community, enterprise or state.
2018
More efforts are needed in making information and good practices on climate resilience accessible to most vulnerable households and communities. This includes establishing knowledge-sharing mechanisms that enable people to participate in the design of context-relevant interventions to enhance climate resilience. Novel ways of sharing information with communities include participatory videos, which have proven effective in spreading knowledge of successful climate adaptation practices with others.
2018
Policies and investments that address the root causes of conflict particularly prioritizing polices and interventions that seek to improve the resilience of agriculture and food systems sectors since agriculture is the mainstay of people’s livelihoods in many countries affected by conflict.
2017
Economic policy responses are necessary where conflict and civil insecurity create economic crises that wreak havoc on production and growth and endanger food security and nutrition. Social policies are also needed to address the challenges to health and nutrition that result from reduced access to and availability of food.
2017
Need for polices and scaled-up programmes aimed at building and strengthening resilience to shocks and stressors in order to prevent long-lasting consequences on food security and nutrition. Strengthening social policies and protection systems will be critical, as households’ own coping capacities tend to be considerably reduced in situations of violent conflict.
2017
Contributing to improved food security, nutrition and sustainable peace will require a change in mind-set to a more deliberate, preventive approach, and from short-term and output-based interventions to longer-term sustainable and collective outcomes linked to a strategic focus on resilience building.
2017
Improve the evidence base on cause and effect in the nexus between conflict, food insecurity, and sustaining peace
2017
Enhance the fairness, transparency, efficiency, and functioning of markets, in particular taking into account the interests of smallholders, improving related infrastructure, and increasing the resilience of agriculture and food systems.
2014
Increase resilience of agriculture and food systems, the supporting habitats, and related livelihoods, particularly of smallholders, to the effects of climate change through adaptation measures.
2014
Smallholders and their organisations should apply the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems], with particular attention to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and youth, by (1) Increasing productivity and income, adding more value in their operations and using natural resources sustainably and efficiently, where applicable; (2) Strengthening their resilience;(3) Managing risks, relevant to their context and circumstances, to maximize positive, and avoid negative impacts on food security and nutrition; (4) Participating in policy, programme, and monitoring processes at all levels; (5) Complying with national laws and regulations and acting with due diligence to avoid infringing on human rights.
2014
Business enterprises involved in agriculture and food systems should apply the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] with a focus on mitigating and managing risks to maximize positive and avoid negative impacts on food security and nutrition, relevant to their context and circumstances. Business enterprises have a responsibility to comply with national laws and regulations and any applicable international law, and act with due diligence to avoid infringing on human rights.
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
Promote more productive and sustainable food systems, strengthen rules-based trade, and assist farmers in developing strategies, to strengthen their resilience, with a focus on risk management policies, and on rural development policies targeting the most vulnerable rural and farming population.
2017
Recognize the value of a holistic and long-term approach to agricultural risk management. Such an approach offers a guide for developing appropriate policy solutions to assist farmers in responding to the range of risks they face, such as risk prevention, diversification, market transparency and market based risk management tools. We recommend countries identify and define the various levels of risk – normal business, marketable, and catastrophic risk – in their own agricultural production systems and rural economies to improve farmer’s resilience, and to develop a range of policies to facilitate responses to those risks. These might include efforts to reduce risks associated with natural disasters, consistent with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
2017
Strengthening agricultural resilience by enhancing a transparent and consistent regulatory environment that facilitates smooth functioning of farm business and risk management systems.
2017
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
Support ecosystem restoration, conservation and protection of biodiversity and sustainable use of genetic and natural resources, especially soil and water, as important tools for developing more productive, competitive, resilient, sustainable and high quality agriculture and as necessary components of agricultural risk management.
2017
Encourage the application of sustainable agricultural practices that have a beneficial impact and contribute to improve resilience and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
2017
Encourage cooperation among farmers and diversification of production, of farm activities and sources of incomes and promote international research cooperation as well
2017
Recommend the systematic monitoring of damages and losses from natural and other disasters directly suffered by the agricultural sector as the basis for developing ex ante policies to face future events and limit their consequences.
2017
Increase resilient infrastructure, land and forests. Promote the development and rehabilitation of agricultural infrastructure, and managing land, soils, biodiversity, water and forests in order to strengthen resilience to climate change and natural disasters and maintain the agricultural production potential.
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
Increase the focus on responsible investment to establish and improve environmentally-friendly and disaster-resilient quality infrastructure, across food value chains, emphasizing the reduction of food loss and waste and GHG emissions, while taking into consideration the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
2016
Promote climate risk management approaches for the most vulnerable households and communities, including through social protection measures, the Climate Risk Early Warning Systems Initiative and the Climate Risk Insurance Initiative.
2016
Farmers need adequate mechanisms to manage risks and market crises. National Governments and international forecast and management systems of agricultural statistics and early warning systems must be improved and better coordinated, in order to anticipate and prevent future crises. We have to ensure that the relevant international organizations and institutions will be able to meet the new challenges we are facing.
2009
Improve inter-regional logistics and distributional systems along with better linkages between rural and urban areas, as well as strengthening local food economies resilience to external shocks.
2021
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
Implement resilient FVCs in light of increasing extreme weather, degradation of natural resources, outbreak of pests and diseases and excessive price volatility.
2019
Improve adaptation to changing environmental conditions, such as increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events, and promote resilience.
2018
Embark on a voluntary basis on country specific or regional strategies for sustainable crop management that reconcile the objectives of increasing productivity with the protection of soils, water and biodiversity as well as with improving the resilience against climate stress and to share experiences and best practices in this regard.
2018
Improve agricultural market data and transparency. It is encouraged to support the ongoing work of AMIS (the G20’s Agricultural Market Information System) and commit to deeper and stronger collaboration to materially improve global data and market transparency by disclosing regular, reliable, accurate, timely and comparable data and encourage the Rapid Response Forum to address policy challenges in global food markets.
2015
Responsible investment in sustainable and resilient food systems should increase productivity to expand food supplies and increase incomes and quality jobs in rural areas, especially for women and youth, reducing poverty and contribute to the G20’s inclusive growth agenda.
2015
Promote sustainable increases in productivity and production, use natural resources more efficiently, increase resilience and help address climate change in accordance with the UNFCCC.
2015
Support diverse food production and distribution networks, including territorial market arrangements.
2020
Improve public investment in infrastructure for markets, storage and other necessary food system components to support deconcentration of production and distribution networks and bring more diversity for resilience.
2020
Take measures to improve agricultural resilience against pests and diseases that may threaten the food supply and public health.
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
Given that the majority of agricultural development assistance projects support conventional or industrial agricultural approaches, work to support more projects that encourage agroecology and other sustainable forms of agriculture.
2020
Include support for individual and community responses, such as home and community gardens.
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
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
Building resilience through diversity and agroecology: Healthy soils, diverse crop varieties and livestock breed, vibrant aquatic and agro-ecosystems
2021
Agroecology as a crisis response: As disease and climate threats multiply, agroecology can be positioned as a systemic solution to prevent and build resilience to future shocks.
2020
Create partnerships to manage seasonal variability (e.g., bumper crops)
2019
Enhancing the adaptive capacity of communities and ecosystems through a mix of conservation, sustainable management, and restoration of land resources.
2017
Enhance resilience to external shocks through the diversification of production and of markets.
2021
Diversify food production and the composition of trade – a strategy that is more available to countries with greater agricultural potential.
2021
ICT approaches (that is, the use of mobile phones, internet and/or data processing for market information) for smart chain integration and integrated quality logistics based on multi-stakeholder cooperation can speed up the transition to more resilient and circular food systems.
2021
Support partner countries to develop and implement universal social protection measures fit for the specific needs of those living in poverty and/ or in vulnerable contexts.
2022
Integrate resilience and disaster preparedness programming into country strategies and projects related to agriculture, human and ecological health, biodiversity and climate.
2022
Increase funding for research and learning on building food systems resilience to decrease vulnerability.
2022
Help to strengthen national, regional and global early warning, foresight and scenario processes to enable more proactive responses to potential risks or emerging crises.
2022
Ensure adequate and equitable resources for rapid emergency responses, including local sourcing of food and other supplies.
2022
Better integrate development and humanitarian programming in a nexus approach, to build resiliency and decrease vulnerability to future crises and hazards.
2022
Given the central role of food systems to achieving all Sustainable Development Goals, the balance of total aid activity for food systems-related interventions relative to other aid priorities should be examined.
2021
Invest in disaster reduction and preparedness rather than relying on large emergency relief programmes.
2021
Better understanding of resilience measures at difference scales is needed.
2021
Enhance the resilience of food systems so that people and the system are less vulnerable to shocks and crises.
2021
Social protection policies may be necessary to mitigate possible trade-offs from repurposing, particularly short-term income losses or negative effects on livelihoods, especially among the most vulnerable populations. Health system policies will also be key to ensure access to essential nutrition services for protecting the health of vulnerable groups, and the food and agricultural workforce, as well as to ensure food safety.
2022
Economic and social policies, legislation and governance structures should be in place well in advance of economic slowdowns and downturns to counteract the effects of adverse economic cycles when they do arrive, and to maintain access to nutritious foods, especially for the most vulnerable population groups, including women and children. In the immediate term, these must include social protection mechanisms and primary healthcare services.
2021
In conflict-affected areas, maintaining conflict-sensitive food systems functions to the extent possible, while aligning actions for immediate humanitarian assistance to protect lives and livelihoods, long-term development and sustaining peace, is key to building resilience of the most vulnerable in these areas.
2021
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that during economic slowdowns and downturns, it is critical to keep food supply chains operational, while providing adequate support to the livelihoods of the most vulnerable, ensuring continued production and access to nutritious foods, including through enhanced social protection programmes.
2021
It is important to recall that the majority of the chronically food insecure and many of the malnourished live in countries affected by insecurity and conflict. Therefore, it is imperative that conflict-sensitive policies, investments and actions to reduce immediate food insecurity and malnutrition be implemented simultaneously with those aimed at a reduction in the levels of conflict and aligned with long-term socio-economic development and peacebuilding efforts.
2021
Critically, the need for economic and social policies, institutions, legislation and other measures to be in place well in advance of economic slowdowns and downturns became evident, as these measures are designed to counteract the effects of adverse economic cycles when they do arrive, especially for the most vulnerable population groups, and to maintain access to nutritious foods and healthy diets.
2021
Economic and social policies, and legislation and governance structures should be in place well in advance of economic slowdowns and downturns to counteract the effects of adverse economic cycles when they do arrive, and to maintain access to nutritious foods, especially for the most vulnerable population groups, including women and children. In the immediate term, these must include social protection mechanisms and primary healthcare services.
2021
In conflict-affected areas, maintaining that conflict-sensitive food systems function to the highest extent possible, while also aligning actions for immediate humanitarian assistance to protect lives and livelihoods with development and sustaining peace efforts, is the key to building resilience of the most vulnerable in these areas.
2021
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that during economic slowdowns and downturns, it is critical to keep food supply chains operational, while providing adequate support to the livelihoods of the most vulnerable, ensuring continued production and access to nutritious foods, including through enhanced social protection programmes.
2021
Sustainability entails humanity and nature thriving together, with resilience as the capacity to regenerate and adapt. Resilience supports sustainability.
2021
As emergency relief is phased out, rebuild the conditions to have normal functioning food systems in post conflict situations.
2022
Improved real-time monitoring of food crisis risks is needed to take early and preventative action to protect vulnerable populations in contexts affected by conflict, natural resource scarcity, and exposure to climate shocks.
2022
Invest in expanding rural, non-farm employment opportunities to ensure that income-generating opportunities exist outside agriculture as alternative pathways to food security and nutrition.
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
Boost public agricultural and food systems research with strong consideration for equity-sensitivity of the research portfolio, including research tailored to marginal environments and climate-resilient technologies for small producers.
2023
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 should institute, where appropriate, monitoring systems (including early warning systems), quality indices (e.g. integrated diversification and agro-biodiversity targets, soil health, water quality, farm income and food price) and other food system and dietary metrics as part of the environment and climate-related target setting policies to monitor changing conditions and the effectiveness of policy responses.
2021
Governments, research organizations, academic institutions, and universities should promote the generation and use of science and evidence-based knowledge, including indigenous, and traditional and local knowledge, that demonstrate climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience strategies for sustainable food systems and enabling healthy diets.
2021
Governments and other relevant stakeholders should protect, conserve and sustainably use biodiversity for food and agriculture to strengthen the resilience of food systems.
2021
Governments should take into consideration the guidance developed by FAO and WHO to ensure that in times of crisis (e.g. pandemics), the integrity and resilience of food systems are maintained, and adequate and safe food supplies are available and accessible for all people.
2021
In times of crisis, governments should recognize the essential nature of food production, distribution, processing and to keep markets, including local markets, and trade corridors open, to ensure workers’ rights and to maintain continuous functioning of critical aspects of food systems in all countries.
2021
Governments and intergovernmental organizations should promote the readiness and resilience of social protection programmes to cope with pandemics and other systemic shocks that negatively impact food security and nutrition.
2021
Governments, private sector, intergovernmental organizations, development partners and other relevant stakeholders should promote and enhance traceability in food supply chains, early contamination detection, and leverage the opportunities that new technologies offer for traceability solutions.
2021
Governments and intergovernmental organizations should pay particular attention, to protection issues, and ensure safe and unhindered access to safe, nutritious food and nutritional support to the most vulnerable groups and implement community based nutrition education activities to address malnutrition in humanitarian contexts and should foster access to productive resources and to markets that are remunerative and beneficial to smallholders.
2021
Governments should have, in accordance with national priorities and capacities, emergency preparedness plans in place to ensure food security and nutrition of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups as well as emergency nutrition surveillance with appropriate indicators during crises such as epidemics and pandemics, conflicts and disasters including those induced by climate change.
2021
Governments, all parties involved in conflicts, disasters including those induced by climate change, epidemics and pandemics, and food assistance, including intergovernmental organizations, should underline and support that food security and nutrition assessments and analyses include appropriate safeguards for the identification and management of potential conflicts of interests, are undertaken throughout a crisis to inform food assistance and nutrition response as well as any components of the local food system requiring rehabilitation or improvement.
2021
Governments should implement policies on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) in emergencies including the protection of optimal breastfeeding practices and, together with intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations, and should support the promotion, coordination and implementation of such policies on IYCF practices, and promoted during humanitarian crises.
2021
Governments in partnership with intergovernmental and other relevant organizations should, where appropriate, undertake food system analysis, develop and use early warning systems, climate information services, and food and agriculture information systems, including food price monitoring systems, that detect and monitor threats to food production, availability and access as well as food safety hazards and tampering.
2021
Governments and intergovernmental organizations should, as appropriate, and in line with national legislation, invest in disaster risk reduction measures that benefit those most at risk/need.
2021
Productive assets should be protected from severe weather and climate impacts and other disasters in a way that strengthens the resilience of affected populations and their ability to cope with shocks due to conflicts and disasters including those induced by climate change as well as economic shocks.
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
Promote the integration of agroecological and other innovative approaches in policies and plans that address agriculture and food system challenges in a given context by strengthening the resilience of food systems, thus contributing to the three pillars of sustainable development within the 2030 Agenda; those policies and plans should make agroecological and other innovative approaches affordable and accessible, respond to local employment needs, contribute to equity and respond to the needs of all actors, in particular people in vulnerable situations.
2019
Foster the transition to resilient and diversified sustainable agriculture and food systems through agroecological and other innovative approaches.
2019
Raise awareness about the importance of diversified production systems that integrate livestock, aquaculture, cropping and agroforestry, as appropriate, to enhance resilient livelihoods and promote sustainable production for healthy diets.
2019
Increase the resilience of food systems in facing crises, by promoting diverse market arrangements that have greater flexibility in the face of disruptions, promote an open, transparent, non-discriminatory, predictable, rules-based trade including in the sectors of agriculture and sustainable food systems, and protect farmers and consumers against food price volatility. This involves recognizing the special challenges faced by small scale producers in addressing existing relevant challenges in food supply chains at all levels.
2019
Implement sustainable fishing practices that support biodiversity, ecosystem restoration, climate change mitigation, and resilience to stressors.
2023
Invest in research and development to breed crops that are high-yielding, resilient to pests and diseases, and adaptable to changing environmental conditions, including developing drought-resistant, heat-tolerant and pest-resistant varieties.
2023
Improve weather forecasting services and early warning systems to improve efficiency and climate resilience.
2023
Promote nature-based solutions in agriculture to address issues like pest control, water quality, biodiversity, and crop phenology.
2023
Manage freshwater at the river basin level to buffer against climate uncertainty.
2023
Improve social protection systems; strengthened social protection systems enhance the capacity to swiftly reach and assist vulnerable populations, ensure timely support, facilitate effective adaptation and recovery efforts, and ensure seamless delivery of multiple services.
2023
Protect vulnerable groups, especially women, impacted by climate change through well designed social safety net programmes and public employment programmes that incorporate climate vulnerability in their targeting.
2023
Improve the financial system to reinforce risk management strategies and enhance uptake of investments.
2023
Develop a macro-level catastrophic insurance through a global risk pooling mechanism to support countries in addressing climate, food security and nutrition risks.
2023
Improve women’s access to financial services and weather index-based insurance.
2023
Improve early warning systems and their access.
2023
Develop strong early warning systems, covering the various risks and disruptions (animal health, drought and weather events, market disruptions, famine) to foster resilience.
2023
Increase finance for affordable, indemnity-based, weather-indexed and crop-indexed insurance.
2024
Integrate humanitarian, development and peacebuilding policies in conflict affected areas by promoting conflict-sensitive policies; fostering peacebuilding efforts linked to livelihood support; implementing nutrition-sensitive social protection and food production and supply programmes; supporting functioning and resilient food supply chains; adopting community-based approaches in post-conflict policies.
2024
Scale up climate resilience across agrifood systems by reducing climate-related risks; adapting to climate change; adopting climate risk monitoring and early warning systems; supporting climate risk insurance; promoting improved access to and management of natural productive assets (e.g. landscape restoration, water management); implementing climate-smart interventions.
2024
Acknowledge temporal variation in urban and peri-urban food insecurity and frame social protection policies and programmes to be responsive to periods of heightened food insecurity.
2024
Resilience planning should be informed by the lived experience of vulnerable populations, should include civil society organizations, and should apply practices that have demonstrated impacts on household and community resilience.
2024
Develop urban and peri-urban food‑system resilience plans and establish contingency planning and early warning systems for fragility and shocks.
2024
Identify critical food infrastructure to be prioritized in times of crisis, and populations and areas most vulnerable to food insecurity in times of disaster and shock.
2024
Include food‑system support in disaster‑response funding plans at all levels, from national to local.
2024
Maintain and enhance food system diversity in terms of sources, supply chains and retail typologies, to bolster systemic resilience, considering the impact of urban and peri-urban food‑system decisions on resilience in rural hinterlands and beyond.
2024
Use geographic information systems, remote sensing, digital tools and participatory mapping to identify areas most vulnerable to food‑system disruption to inform long‑term planning and crisis response.
2024
Governments should invest in and scale up technologies and policies that contribute to sustainable intensification practices and resilient farming systems.
2017
Governments need to support the transformation of the agri-food system with policies that can help manage climate and market induced shocks.
2017
To build greater resilience into national food systems, governments should also consider policies that can help stabilize national food supplies and prices, such as maintaining an adequate national food reserve for emergencies, freeing up food markets to greater regional and international trade, and buying up surplus food in low price years for school feeding programs.
2017
There are many things farmers can do to add greater resilience to their livelihoods, such as crop and income diversification, making risk-reducing investments like irrigation, and adopting climate smart farming practices. Policy makers can assist by investing in R&D on climate smart agriculture, promoting the development of weather-based agricultural insurance, facilitating the more widespread availability of rural credit and other financial services, and maintaining adequate rural safety nets.
2017
Develop policies and tools, and improve capacity, to assess, mitigate, and manage risks, and reduce excessive price volatility, and their impacts on the most vulnerable;
2016
Enhance access to livestock insurance for all systems, including index-based insurance;
2016
Facilitate the adaptation to and mitigation of climate change in agricultural systems in line with the Paris Agreement, and with particular support for smallholders and pastoralists, and women’s role in food systems;
2016
Countries need to protect incomes so as to counteract economic adversity. To enhance the contingency mechanisms, and financial capacity that policymakers need to respond, it is critical to strengthen the savings capacity when the economy is growing, using available instruments (automatic fiscal stabilizers, stabilization funds, sovereign wealth funds, macro-prudential norms and the like), so as to make countercyclical policies feasible
2019
Actions to sustain economic growth and foster preparedness mechanisms can help improve resilience in the face of economic and climate-related shocks more broadly
2019
Strengthening mechanisms to identify not only the poorest households, but also those which could be most affected and in need of assistance when shocks ccur
2019
Shock-responsive social protection systems can expand cash transfers (conditional or unconditional depending on the existing level of institutionality), cash for work or food for work programmes when covariate or intrinsic shocks occur
2019
Developing risk-informed and shock-responsive systems during the times of stability
2019
Shock-responsive social protection (including social safety nets such as distributing food assistance; subsidizing prices for foodstuffs; providing vouchers, coupons or school meals; and providing support through cash transfers or public works activities) risk transfers (e.g., climate risk insurance) and forecast-based financing
2018
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
Closer partnerships between humanitarian, development and peace actors and international financial institutions will be important to support conf lict and protracted crisis-affected communities in addressing root causes, building resilience and finding durable solutions.
2017
Effective support to populations displaced by conflict needs to be an integral part of the policy agenda, considering that more than half of the world’s refugees originate in countries affected by conflict and IDPs are concentrated in these same areas.
2017
Building more-resilient rural livelihoods and measures to improve food security and nutrition will likely be instrumental to both mitigating the impacts of conflict and reducing the likelihood of conflict occurring.
2017
In conflict-affected and protracted crisis contexts, a boost in development action to help people become self-reliant as quickly as possible and build resilience to future shocks (including conflict) is vital. This will require more risk tolerance, earlier engagement, more flexible financing and context-adaptable, conflict-sensitive programming.
2017
Support more vibrant smallholder activities and more diverse production and distribution networks
2020
Ensure sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, as well as animal production and forestry, are integrated in policy responses to COVID-19 so as to reap their full potential in terms of nutrition and livelihoods.
2020
Implement mechanisms to protect farmers and small-agricultural producers from uncertainties and income losses, such as specific insurances, transfers and inputs distribution
2020
Increasing resilience. Policies and investments that promote efficient and effective disaster preparedness and response, enhanced risk transfer and prudent risk-taking for livelihood diversification are required.
2016
Promotional social protection: combined with targeted capacity strengthening, may not only improve the income and use of essential services, such as education or preventive health care, but can also help households to diversify livelihood options and so manage future risks and promote longer-term resilience.
2016
Public works and employment guarantee schemes: Investments in initiatives that engage participants in manual, labor-oriented activities, such as building or rehabilitating community assets and public infrastructure, can support consumption and avoid distress sales of land and other assets, thereby boosting purchasing power and enhancing resilience in the process.
2016
Protect agriculture, food production, and rural livelihoods before, during and after conflict
2020
Rebuild local agriculture and food value chains to help conflict-affected people move beyond subsistence agriculture, rejoin exchange markets, adopt climate-smart practices, and become resilient to economic and climatic shocks
2020
Improve access to financial services and reduce exposure to uninsured risks
2008