Recommendations for "Governance and Policy Environment (564 results)"
Develop a suite of indicators that can be used by donors and research institutes to understand whether existing projects are ‘agroecological’, building on the Agroecology Criteria Tool (ACT). Support the development of holistic performance measurements for agroecology and metrics for capturing project alignment with the SDGs, building on (inter alia): the ACT, FAO’s Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE), the growing body of work on ‘true cost accounting’ and specific metrics like the land equivalent ratio.
2020
Shift towards long-term funding models.
2020
Promote a fair and market-oriented world agricultural trading system in accordance with multilateral trade rules, in acknowledgment of the role of trade as an important element in support of sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition
2016
Develop capacity to meet national and international food safety and quality standards, frameworks, and schemes, ensuring that they are appropriate for different scales, contexts and modes of production and marketing, in particular CODEX Alimentarius standards;
2016
Promote context-specific farm-size policies. Because well-functioning land sale and rental markets can have a major impact on agricultural productivity, governments in developing countries should not implement policies that promote cookie-cutter farm structures (for both rental and owner-occupied farms), which can lead to misallocation of resources
2013
Establish productive social nets, including conditional cash transfers that are tied to household participation in primary schooling and health services.
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
Countries should establish effective and transparent regulatory and monitoring systems to govern biotechnology and other emerging technologies so that producers and consumers can make timely and contextually relevant decisions about these technologies.
2013
Promote pro-smallholder value chains through institutional innovations for vertical and horizontal coordination among smallholders, including group lending, rural marketing cooperatives and producer associations. These mechanisms will provide smallholder farmers with reduced transaction costs, improved access to market information, and increased bargaining power. However, such coordination mechanisms require strong institutional capacity and the active promotion of smallholder participation—not just membership—within these organizations to gain the maximum benefit for smallholders.
2013
Promote land policies that enable efficient smallholders to expand their operations by acquiring or renting land from less efficient neighbors who find other employment; and promote other business-friendly government policies (such as a sound legal and regulatory framework).
2013
As labor becomes more expensive and moves out of agriculture in transforming and transformed economies, policies are needed to reorient the economies away from labor-intensive agricultural practices toward a more knowledge-based and mechanized agricultural model.
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
Safety regulations and monitoring systems need to be developed and implemented to ensure that agricultural intensification does not harm people’s health, but regulations must be implemented in a way that does not alienate smallholders.
2013
A sound legal and regulatory environment is needed to maximize the private sector’s contribution to smallholder productivity and to protect the property rights of smallholders and their surrounding natural resources. In conjunction, more research is needed to define appropriate instruments and strategies for integrating public-private partnerships and FDI into local economies.
2013
Avoid taxation of nutritious foods. Policy interventions that tend to depress prices of agricultural commodities not only reduce farmers’ incomes and incentives to produce, but also reduce the affordability of healthy diets for some of the most marginalized populations, the rural poor. Therefore, policies that penalize food and agricultural production (through direct or indirect taxation) should be avoided, as they tend to have adverse effects on the production of nutritious foods. Subsidy levels in the food and agriculture sectors should also be revisited, especially in low-income countries, to avoid taxation of nutritious foods.
2020
Nutrition-sensitive social protection policies are most appropriate to provide better access to nutritious foods to lower-income consumers and thus increase their affordability of healthy diets. There is a need to strengthen nutrition-sensitive social protection mechanisms and ensure they can support micronutrient supplementation where needed, as well as create healthy food environments by encouraging consumers to diversify their diets to reduce dependence on starchy staples, reduce consumption of foods high in fats, sugars and/or salt, and include more diverse, nutritious foods. Other policies include cash transfer programmes, in-kind transfers, school feeding programmes and subsidization of nutritious foods.
2020
Strengthen food industry regulations to help ensure easier and more affordable access to healthy diets by reducing the content of fat, sugar and salt in foods or increasing access to foods fortified with micronutrients. Recommended regulation measures include the introduction of legislation to ban the use of industrial trans fats, encouraging the reformulation of processed foods, the introduction of improved nutrition labelling (including simplified front-of-pack labelling) and the use of fiscal or agricultural policies to replace trans fats and saturated fats with unsaturated fats, in addition to policies that limit portion and package size.
2020
Explicitly tailor policies to raise awareness and influence consumer behaviour in favour of healthy diets, with important synergies for environmental sustainability. Promote healthy eating habits through subsidies on grocery store purchases of nutritious foods, such as fruits and vegetables as an effective policy towards raising the affordability of healthy diets.
2020
Ensure trade and marketing policies balance producer and consumer interests. It is essential that governments carefully consider the impacts of non-tariff measures on the affordability of nutritious foods and avoid creating regulatory barriers to trade that negatively affect poor households’ access to a healthy diet.
2020
To minimize barriers to trade that might arise from divergent national regulations, global standard‑setting bodies such as the Codex Alimentarius Joint FAO/WHO (World Health Organization) International Food Standards Programme aim at harmonizing standards at international level. The use of international food standards worldwide helps protect consumers and reduce trade costs by making trade more transparent and efficient, allowing food to move more smoothly between markets. Both the WTO SPS and Technical Barriers to Trade Agreements strongly encourage WTO members to build on international standards, guidelines and recommendations as the basis for their national measures.
2020
Private standards often complement public regulation, for example, by referring to sustainability attributes such as environmental protection or ethical sourcing. Moreover, private standards may also fill the gap created by missing public regulation or enforce more stringent requirements than foreseen in national regulations.
2020
Global value chains, when combined with sustainability certification schemes, can help align global efforts to address sustainability challenges. Harmonizing sustainability standards and certification across countries can facilitate their application to agri-food global value chains.
2020
Government policies are crucial to underpinning market participation. They should target rural areas with measures to improve health and education services, upgrade infrastructure and foster labour markets, supporting an enabling environment that is conducive to business.
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
Agricultural and food markets can be harnessed to deliver sustainable development outcomes. Promoting and widely applying voluntary sustainability certification schemes can address trade‑offs between economic, environmental and social objectives.
2020
Effective public‑private partnerships, good regulations to crowd‑in the private sector and policy coherence are needed to improve digital infrastructure and skills in rural areas and to facilitate the uptake of digital technologies, especially in agricultural and food markets of developing countries.
2020
Policies and social mobilization to address the multiple challenges facing populations who are discriminated against of excluded (based on ethnicity, caste or religion) including: Legal, regulatory and policy frameworks to promote social inclusion; National public expenditure; Improving access to and adequacy of public services (sometimes exclusively targeted to these population group; Empowering institutions and their organizational capacity and participation in decision-making processes; Increasing accountability to protect human rights; and Working to gradually change discriminatory attitudes and behaviors
2019
Policies and investments to achieve structural transformation that diversifies the economy away from commodity dependence, while fostering poverty reduction and more egalitarian societies including: Transforming agriculture and food systems such that the type of commodities produced contribute to improved access to more nutritious foods; Policies that facilitate trade should also help achieve nutrition objectives; Integrating food security and nutrition concerns into poverty reduction efforts, while increasing synergies between poverty reduction, hunger and malnutrition eradication
2019
Voluntary certification schemes for restaurants selling healthier meals
2019
Grants/tax breaks for vendors to provide healthier options on their menu
2019
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
Trade, investments and agriculture policies must be nutrition-sensitive and improve access to healthy diets, rather than promoting commodity crops that provide a cheap source of starch, fat and sugar in the food supply.
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
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
Cost–benefit analysis (CBA) can help policy-makers explore alternative options and expected net benefits in order to determine the best allocation of resources. CBA analysis should be complemented with qualitative assessments of both barriers to adoption as well as environmental and social impacts of adaptation strategies.
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
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
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
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
At the country level, well-established legislation, institutional structures, policies and plans can create an enabling environment to limit the impact of climate-related disasters and climate variability and build climate resilience. A mix of different tools – including regulation, fiscal instruments, investments in research and knowledge dissemination, support for market accessibility, improvements in infrastructure, and social protection – is seen as being more effective and sustainable in creating a pathway for climate resilience than a single intervention.
2018
Food security and nutrition policies and Programmes must take into consideration the specific needs and priorities of men, women, boys and girls, and target interventions in a gender-responsive way that leaves no one behind.
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
Responsible investment in agriculture and food systems should abide by national legislation and public policies, and incorporate inclusive and transparent governance structures, processes, decision-making, and grievance mechanisms, accessible to all, through respecting the rule and application of law, free of corruption.
2014
Share information relevant to the investment, in accordance with applicable law, in an inclusive, equitable, accessible, and transparent manner at all stages of the investment cycle.
2014
Engage with and seek the support of those who could be directly affected by investment decisions prior to decisions being taken and responding to their contributions, taking into account existing power imbalances, in order to achieve active, free, effective, meaningful and informed participation of individuals and groups in associated decision-making processes in line with the VGGT.
2014
Establish effective and meaningful consultation with indigenous peoples, through their representative institutions in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent under the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples and with due regard for particular positions and understanding of individual States.
2014
Promote access to transparent and effective mediation, grievance, and dispute resolution mechanisms, particularly for the most vulnerable and marginalized.
2014
Apply mechanisms that provide for independent and transparent assessments of potential impacts involving all relevant stakeholder groups, in particular the most vulnerable.
2014
Identify measures to prevent and address potential negative impacts, including the option of not proceeding with the investment.
2014
Regularly assess changes and communicate results to stakeholders.
2014
Implement appropriate and effective remedial and/or compensatory actions in the case of negative impacts or non-compliance with national law or contractual obligations.
2014
Promote responsible investment in agriculture and food systems that contributes to food security and nutrition and which supports the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security is the collective responsibility of all stakeholders. These Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] should be promoted, supported and utilized by all stakeholders according to their respective individual or collective needs, mandates, abilities, and relevant national contexts.
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
Where States own, control, or substantially support business enterprises, they should seek to ensure that their conduct is consistent with the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems].
2014
States are encouraged, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders, especially the most vulnerable, and as appropriate with national human rights institutions, to establish monitoring, assessment, and reporting systems in order to: (1) Measure the impacts of investment in agriculture and food systems and address negative impacts; (2) Assess the efficiency and effectiveness of laws, policies, and regulations and address any gaps related to the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems]; (3) Provide clear guidance to stakeholders on monitoring and reporting procedures.
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
All financing institutions and other funding entities are encouraged to apply the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] when formulating their policies for loans and grants, in the articulation of country investment portfolios and in co-financing with other partners. They should take appropriate measures so that their support to investors does not lead to violations of human and legitimate tenure rights, and is in line with the Principles. The provision of finance allows these institutions a unique leveraging position where they can communicate with a broad range of stakeholders about their roles, responsibilities, and actions to facilitate implementation of the Principles.
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
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
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
The Committee on World Food Security should promote the dissemination and use of the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems], and include them in its ongoing work on monitoring, relying as much as possible on existing mechanisms. CFS should provide a forum where all relevant stakeholders can learn from each other’s experiences in applying the Principles, and assess the continued relevance, effectiveness and impact of the Principles for food security and nutrition.
2014
Responsible investment should respect, protect and promote human rights, including the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, in line with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other relevant international human rights instruments.
2014
Strengthening agricultural resilience by enhancing a transparent and consistent regulatory environment that facilitates smooth functioning of farm business and risk management systems.
2017
Promote global responsible investment and trade for food value chains, in particular in developing countries, through better application of internationally recognized labor, social and environmental standards, principles and commitments, in particular the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (CFS-RAI), the OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains and the New Alliance Analytical Framework for Responsible Land-Based Investments.
2016
Support the establishment, improvement and enforcement of legal, regulatory and social systems ensuring women’s equal rights and access to resources and productive assets including financial and extension services, including through ongoing initiatives such as the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition.
2016
Strengthen support for national governments to formulate nutrition policies, carry out effective multi-sectoral actions and plans, set realistic targets and implement monitoring frameworks.
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
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
Continue enhancing accountability and transparency, reporting on progress towards food security and nutrition commitments.
2016
Ensuring access to adequate food and water is essential for sustainable development and for our future. It is necessary to focus the attention on all the strategies to be implemented and shared in order to reduce poverty and increase world production and to achieve food security, in particular in the developing countries.
2009
We underline the importance of increasing public and private investment in sustainable agriculture, rural development and environmental protection in cooperation with international organisations. It is essential to tackle climate change impacts and ensure sustainable management of water, forests and other natural resources, while considering demographic growth.
2009
We stress the importance of sound agricultural policies and strategies to underpin the investments, at national, regional and global level. Policies and strategies need to be developed in an inclusive manner, involving all main stakeholders, including farmer organisations, and be based on reliable statistics. In Africa, the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) encompasses these principles and deserves our support.
2009
Share technology, processes and ideas with other countries in the interest of increasing the capacity of national and regional institutions and governments, as well as promoting food security. These efforts are vital to increasing sustainable agricultural productivity and rural development in each country, in accordance with various agricultural conditions, respecting biodiversity and improving peoples’ access to food, social and economic development and prosperity.
2009
There is a need to place agriculture and rural development – together with other policies – at the centre of sustainable economic growth by strengthening the role of the agricultural households and smallholder farms and their access to land in many parts of the world, encouraging women participation, gender equality and young and beginning farmers.
2009
Targeted policies to guarantee effective management and sustainable utilization of natural resources involving local communities in accordance with their identities. This pattern of growth also meets the requirements of less developed rural areas where local sustainable production should be improved.
2009
There should be monitoring and further analysis of factors potentially affecting price volatility in commodity markets, including speculation.
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
Increase catalytic investments for food security, nutrition, and sustainable food systems and territorial development, as part of the substantial COVID-19 emergency funding and longer-term national recovery plans and packages, in a manner consistent with WTO obligations and taking into account the voluntary Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems.
2021
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
Consider that continuous promotion of responsible agricultural investment plays an important role in improving sustainability of the agro-food sector.
2019
Ensure and promote the safety and quality of food in line with internationally agreed standards.
2018
It is important to develop and enhance actions at different levels, including appropriate frameworks, to stimulate national policies to promote soil health, soil carbon sequestration, degraded soil restoration and use of soils in a sustainable manner. These actions should be based on science and empirical evidence and should be oriented to produce food and fiber in order to increase the efficiency of nutrient cycling and applied inputs, to maintain and raise soil fertility and to improve water use efficiency.
2018
Promote innovation in institutions, policies, science and technology, in order to increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable manner.
2016
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
Build multi-tiered and multi-faceted governance systems for food security in developing countries, ensuring global effort.
2016
Support the improvement of the global environment for agricultural investment including through the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security and Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems endorsed by the CFS (CFS-RAI).
2016
Pursue comprehensive and coordinated governance measures through a multi-tiered, multi-faceted system.
2016
Support for responsible investment also requires an enabling environment including infrastructure and policies conducive to well-functioning markets, an open and rules based multilateral trading system, inclusive financial institutions, secure tenure of land, social protection, the management of risk and measures to limit the adverse impacts of excessive price volatility.
2015
Mechanisms and instruments are needed to promote responsible investment in agriculture and food systems.
2015
Commit to the fundamental role of a rules-based multilateral trading system in global food security and to the ongoing WTO negotiations with a view to promptly conclude the Doha Development Agenda.
2015
Reaffirm the Rome Declaration on Nutrition adopted by the Second International Conference on Nutrition, welcoming the policy options and strategies proposed in the voluntary Framework for Action and incorporating them into their national food and nutrition strategies as appropriate.
2015
Pursue a comprehensive food systems approach taking into consideration the entirety of food value chains from production through food processing and distribution to retailing and consumption.
2015
In addition to public efforts, the private sector has an important role in making the investments and developing the technologies and good practices needed to enhance productivity, efficiency and sustainability in food value chains and efforts should be increased to engage with the private sector.
2015
Invest at all stages of food value chains to increase productivity, generate employment and incomes and reduce food loss and waste.
2015
Strengthen commitments to the fundamental role of the multilateral trading system in global food security and to the ongoing WTO negotiations with a view to promptly concluding the Doha Development Agenda and to the success of the WTO Tenth Ministerial Conference at Nairobi.
2015
Strengthen past initiatives to support agricultural productivity growth where appropriate. Support their extension as appropriate to include the whole food system, for example in the areas of processing, storage and distribution, and to consider the special needs of vulnerable farmers, which may include smallholders and family farmers, in the broader context of inclusive and sustainable rural development
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
Promote national enabling environments for investment including infrastructure and policies conducive to well-functioning markets, the integration of smallholders and women into those markets, inclusive financing institutions, secure tenure of land, social protection, the management of risk and measures to limit the adverse impacts of excessive price volatility.
2015
Utilize policy guidance, such as the voluntary Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in 2014 and the OECD policy framework for Investment in Agriculture as appropriate.
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
The OECD and other relevant international organizations should continue to support the development of the G20 initiated framework for improving agricultural productivity sustainably.
2015
Make equity and human rights an integral part of food security and nutrition policies
2020
Ensure that strategies for improving the food security and nutrition of vulnerable categories, including gender, age and income consideration, are context specific
2020
Ensure coordination across sectors for effective food security governance
2020
Tailor policies to consider demographic shifts and migration patterns, which vary greatly by region.
2020
Ensure that food systems are more equitable and work for the world’s most marginalized producers, consumers and workers. The global private sector has a great responsibility here.
2020
The CFS should formally strengthen the Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Food, by moving from “progressive realization” to “unconditional realization.”
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
Invest in public good research to ensure equitable access to new technologies, inputs and services in food systems and agriculture.
2020
Ensure food trade is equitable and fair for countries that depend on food imports, for agricultural exporting countries, for producers, including small-holders and for consumers.
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
The CFS should take a lead role in coordinating the global food security policy guidance in response to COVID-19 and its aftermath.
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
All relevant UN agencies must urgently develop a rapid response mechanism at global scales for food in order to support poor and vulnerable people.
2020
Provide incentives for improving the nutritional quality of processed foods and their promotion in food retail and advertising, as well as disincentives for non-adherence.
2020
The agriculture sector should engage the health and environment sectors in establishing policies and programmes that are nutrition-driven and environmentally sustainable.
2020
Support private and public sector investment in, and state-facilitated development of, peri-urban and urbanagriculture in order to bring fresh foods, especially perishable horticultural products that are rich in micronutrients, closer to markets.
2020
Revitalize development and governance capacity and expertise in areas relevant to sustainable FSN during conflict and in post-conflict situations.
2020
Enhance FSN governance and coordination at the global level to strengthen and renew commitment to multilateral cooperation.
2020
National governments need to implement existing CFS and other UN guidelines related to FSN governance.
2020
CFS and its member states should consider making their commitments legally binding through an appropriate multilateral agreement.
2020
A financial mechanism supplemented by public and private contributions should be established to support the proposed multilateral agreement and the implementation of national FSN strategies and policies.
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
CFS and states need to collect and report data on the implementation of food system policies and initiatives at different scales (local, national, international) and develop systems for auditing and accountability.
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
Include food system workers and agricultural producers’ organizations in COVID-19 decision processes at national and international levels.
2020
Ensure food system workers’ rights are recognized and integrated in national legislation; promote and enforce compliance with established norms.
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
Provide debt relief to governments struggling to maintain necessary social safety nets
2020
Invest in national smallholder investment strategies. Governments should design and implement medium- and long-term strategies, with the accompanying set of policies and budgets, to increase the capacity of the smallholder sector to fulfill its multi-functional roles in national development. These roles include contributing to growth, maintaining employment, reducing poverty, enhancing the sustainable management of natural resources and achieving food security. These National Smallholder Investment Strategies should be solidly grounded in participatory processes involving first and foremost the smallholder organizations and all concerned stakeholders.
2013
Governments should recognize in law the individual and collective rights of smallholders, including their right to organize democratically, to have voice in policy debates and to defend their interests, with gender- and age-balanced representation. Securing such rights is important not only intrinsically for them but also in contributing to building the political will necessary to implement the proposed National Smallholder Investment Strategies.
2013
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
Governments should give priority to linking smallholder farmers to domestic, national and regional markets, as well as to new markets that create direct links between producers and consumers, and to schemes that rely on smallholders for the procurement of food for school and institutional feeding programmes. Developing these market linkages also requires investment in small- and medium-size food processors, and small-scale traders at the retail and wholesale levels. Market failures and price volatility are major disincentives for smallholder investment. Government intervention is important to reduce transaction costs on markets and to stabilize prices and smallholders’ incomes. Regarding contracting opportunities in value chains, governments should strive to establish the necessary regulatory instruments to bridge the significant gap in economic and political power that exists between smallholders and their organizations on the one side, and the other contracting organizations on the other side.
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
Integrate development and climate policies and investments in order to address impacts of climate change.
2019
Fiscal, legal and regulatory reforms to improve the rural investment climate.
2016
Improving nutrition: Both “nutrition-specific” and “nutrition-sensitive” policies and investments are required.
2016
Removing policy barriers to sustainable agricultural growth requires the design of market-based mechanisms that provide smallholders with proper incentives to invest in sustainability. Removing subsidies on unsustainable fertilizers and subsidizing practices that encourage soil and water conservation can help small producers green their own supply chains (agricultural inputs, feed and drip irrigation). Similarly, expanding fair or green certification schemes would allow products originating from smallholders to compete in new niche markets locally and internationally
2013
Catalyze investments that strengthen food supply links so that smallholders have greater market access and food transporters, distributors, processors, and retailers can thrive.
2020
Tailor food system policies so that they create opportunities for marginalized people while addressing key challenges such as unhealthy diets and climate change
2020
Address inclusion at the global policy level, using awareness of inequality to spur discussion on the need for large-scale investments in research and programming to build inclusive food systems
2020
Cracking down on corporate impunity and techno-fixes: monitor, regulate, or recall technologies that are dangerous or failing
2021
Defending human rights, nature rights, and renegotiating the contract between state and society.
2021
Building food policies, food policy councils, and new forms of citizen participation.
2021
Reviewing, reforming and reconfiguring the UN’s agri-food agencies.
2021
Levying junk food and taxing corporations fairly.
2021
Developing new tools to block corporate commodity chains and hack closed-door negotiations
2021
Donors currently spend USD 12 billion per year on food security and nutrition and therefore need to double their contributions to meet the goals. However, ODA alone will not be enough. Additional public spending of USD 19 billion per year on average until 2030 will have to be provided by low- and middle-income countries through increased taxation.
2020
Additional public investment from donors and low- and middle-income countries will prevent 490 million people from experiencing hunger, double the incomes of 545 million small-scale producers and their families on average, and limit greenhouse gas emissions for agriculture to the commitments made in the Paris Agreement. The additional public spending will also spur an extra USD 52 billion in private investment per year on average in primary and processed food sectors from both small- and large-scale producers.
2020
Access to inputs: Reduce tariffs and non tariff measures; reform services
2020
Reduce emissions from manure left on pasture: Increase research funding, Create private regulatory incentives
2019
Conversion-free supply chains: Mobilize buyers, traders, and financiers of agricultural commodities to purchase or finance only commodities not linked to deforestation or other ecosystem conversions.
2019
Actively support farmer-assisted regeneration
2019
Resources: Restoration requires resources both to fund the physical restoration and, usually, to compensate in some way existing users of the land for their forgone uses
2019
Regulations: Governments should establish, and enforce, strong laws protecting peatlands from further drainage or conversion
2019
Political commitment: Restoring peatlands, like most other infrastructure projects, has high potential to arouse opposition from some parties, even if the benefits to the public are clear and the project has the support of the vast majority of those directly affected. Efforts to move forward must be sensitive to issues of equity and seek participation and consent but should respect majority support.
2019
Change food date labelling practices
2019
Make cosmetic standards more amenable to selling imperfect food (e.g., produce with irregular shapes or blemishes)
2019
Support institutional and policy reforms to reform outdated and counterproductive forestry legislation, establish more secure land tenure and management rights over trees, and strengthen local institutions to improve natural resource governance.
2019
Providing the conditions necessary to scale local successes into large-scale, transformative initiatives. This includes fostering the underlying social and economic conditions and institutions, particularly those relating to stakeholder engagement, land tenure, gender equality, and the availability of sustained investment and infrastructure.
2017
Framing a new approach to spatial planning to minimize the impacts of urban sprawl and infrastructure development. Cities designed for sustainability in the wider landscape can reduce environmental costs of transport, food, water, and energy, and offer new opportunities for resource efficiency.
2017
Revalue the pricing of environmental externalities, reinforce legislation to prevent pollution and other forms of environmental degradation and remove subsidies that provide disincentives for better resource efficiency.
2016
Remove subsidies that encourage unsustainable production or practices (e.g. fossil fuel subsidies).
2016
Focus the food policy agenda on tailoring public investment programmes and government procurement, combined with responsible private-sector innovations and market incentives to diversify diets and make food choices healthier and more sustainable.
2021
Promote the establishment of a supportive food environment that uses legal and regulatory regimes (with grades and standards), as well as fiscal measures, to support affordable food prices in favour of nutrient-dense foods; to enhance investments in improving food safety in competitive and transparent food markets (formal and informal); and to shape social norms and practices in favour of nutrient-rich foods and diversified diets that can be sourced from local producers and processors.
2021
Facilitate the transition from linear to circular food systems through a basket-of-options approach.
2021
Develop grades and standards, which are critical to support inclusive food systems
2021
Greater integration of sustainable production criteria into trade practices will require both exporting and importing countries to embrace more commonly established sustainability standards to declare the standards binding and to include them in bilateral or regional trade agreements.
2021
Facilitate midstream SMEs in contributing to food quality and diet diversity.
2021
Improve labour market functioning and the business climate. Further development of agrifood midstream SMEs can support competitive conditions and contribute to a better functioning labour market.
2021
Enhance midstream contributions for food system sustainability through long-term delivery contracts that support mutual relationships and co-investments with upstream or downstream partners.
2021
Base supply chain governance on social norms, public policies and private investment. Because SMEs face challenges in standards compliance, transforming food systems requires a combination of public policies, private investments and social networks to foster adherence to norms – whether for product quality, food safety, decent labour conditions or sustainable practices. Investments are needed to improve midstream SMEs’ market access, to build their human capital and to expand their financial opportunities – all within a highly informal network-based structure
2021
The “hidden middle” of midstream agrifood enterprises needs support to fill the “missing middle” in agrifood support services. Beyond improved access to material services, shared norms – for the establishment of mutual trust, reliable transactions and transparent relationships – are critical to reduce risks of collusion and exclusion. Food system transformation will succeed only if SMEs can overcome discriminatory norms and practices.
2021
Policies to steer the production and consumption of processed foods and UPFs need to combine local engagement in small-scale business, affordable technologies, and supportive price and non-price incentives. In the earlier stages, attention should focus mostly on business development and market entry facilities. In the later stages, taxation and legal regulation are required to safeguard an equitable and balanced food processing sector.
2021
The most advanced food systems need to embrace engagement in public-private partnerships and reliance on voluntary standards as leading governance principles.
2021
Implement existing global policy instruments, engage with ongoing initiatives which support policy processes that explicitly include youth as a locus of action related to well-being, food security, land rights and food systems development, and create accountability mechanisms in legislation for all of the above.
2021
Recognize the multiple and diverse voices that young people can bring to sustainable food systems transformations; guarantee and encourage equal, non-discriminatory and active participation of youth in formal governance mechanisms on food security and nutrition and in other decision-making fora at all levels (e.g. civil society, private sector, CFS, national and local policy making spaces).
2021
Ensure youth-oriented policies take cross-cutting (intersectional) relationships and hierarchies into account, providing additional supports to improve equity and resources across generation, gender, class, culture, ethnicity and citizenship status.
2021
National and regional governments, civil society and private sector mechanisms should regularly review and renew youth-targeted policies for education, engagement and employment in food systems, building on the results and lessons learned from improved data sources and earlier interventions.
2021
Implement comprehensive active labour market policies to increase youth employability and enhance their employment outcomes in food systems through a combination of interventions such as job search assistance, employment services, training and skills development, job matching, entrepreneurship coaching and incubators, in conjunction with demand-side measures to create employment opportunities.
2021
Recognize the multiple and diverse voices that young people can bring to sustainable food systems transformations; guarantee and encourage equal, non-discriminatory and active participation of youth in formal governance mechanisms on food security and nutrition and in other decision-making fora at all levels (e.g. civil society, private sector, CFS, national and local policy making spaces).
2021
National and regional governments, civil society and private sector mechanisms should regularly review and renew youth-targeted policies for education, engagement and employment in food systems, building on the results and lessons learned from improved data sources and earlier interventions.
2021
Provide supportive legal measures and regulation to facilitate the intergenerational transfer of natural and productive resources and other food systems-related enterprises (e.g., processing, retail, distribution, food literacy and nutrition education) by supporting succession and start-ups.
2021
Recognize the multiple and diverse voices that young people can bring to sustainable food systems transformations; guarantee and encourage equal, non-discriminatory and active participation of youth in formal governance mechanisms on food security and nutrition and in other decision-making fora at all levels (e.g. civil society, private sector, CFS, national and local policy making spaces).
2021
Improve the documentation of different forms of youth participation in food systems, including through involving young people in research on adequate and healthy diets and in policy and governance spaces, to inform proactive policy development on youth engagement.
2021
National and regional governments, civil society and private sector mechanisms should regularly review and renew youth-targeted policies for education, engagement and employment in food systems, building on the results and lessons learned from improved data sources and earlier interventions.
2021
Implement comprehensive active labour market policies to increase youth employability and enhance their employment outcomes in food systems through a combination of interventions such as job search assistance, employment services, training and skills development, job matching, entrepreneurship coaching and incubators, in conjunction with demand-side measures to create employment opportunities.
2021
Facilitate the transition from school to work and labour-market entry, in collaborations between the private and public sectors, including, for example, youth-targeted wage subsidy programmes in the private (formal) sector, and ensure equitable access to these programmes across gender, ethnicity and citizenship status.
2021
Improve labour law and regulations to establish thresholds and explicit protection for living wages and working conditions in all types of economic activities in food systems, taking into account informal work and the gig economy, as well as young migrant workers. This includes reducing hazardous exposures and supporting occupational health, provision of personal protective equipment, safe hours, and unemployment insurance. End the exemption of agricultural and fisheries workers from existing labour laws and protections.
2021
Strengthen labour governance to make it more youth-friendly, through support to labour inspection systems in sectors and occupations where young people are prevalent, such as temporary, apprenticeship and entry-level occupations. Support community-level monitoring and other forms of ensuring compliance to labour legislation and respect of labour rights, including through awareness, training and education campaigns and support for union affiliation.
2021
Create a supportive policy environment for youth-led start-up initiatives (e.g. tax breaks, facilitated access to financial instruments and emerging technologies, incubation hubs that help youth build their capacity to better engage markets and value-added activities of different types).
2021
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
Donors are a part of the global food system and must commit to systemic transformation in their own countries as well.
2022
Donors will have to focus on interventions that create the enabling conditions for systemic change.
2022
Donors are a part of the global food system and must commit to systemic transformation in their own countries as well.
2022
Donors will need to pay more attention to the structural barriers and enabling conditions for change, and the associated power dynamics of differing stakeholder interests
2022
Be more rigorous in developing a systems understanding of the context for an investment and managing in a flexible, adaptive and learning-oriented way
2022
Support partners to work from a whole-system perspective and overcome traditional disciplinary and sectoral barriers and silos.
2022
Invest in new institutional arrangements to support integrated cross-sector planning and policy.
2022
Invest in enhancing the capacity of stakeholders, and in particular government ministry and agency staff to broker systems approaches to change.
2022
Create shared theories of change (intervention strategies/plans) that are flexible, to adapt to changing circumstances, and that align with the dynamics of how complex systems behave.
2022
Enhance territorial approaches which tailor investments and interventions to the context and needs of specific geographic localities and their peoples
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
Invest in ongoing multistakeholder dialogue and analysis of the longer-term implications and impacts of food systems trends and scenarios.
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
Support national governments to develop responsible enabling business environments in the agriculture and food sectors.
2022
Support the development of all forms of necessary infrastructure, particularly in poorer and marginal areas, to improve the economic conditions and competitiveness of the agriculture and food sectors in those areas.
2022
Support value chain development projects which create the conditions and investable project propositions for private financing.
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
Catalyse the investment in physical infrastructure needed for a viable MSME sector, such as roads, electrical grids, and internet and mobile phone infrastructure, with a focus on areas with high levels of rural poverty and inequality.
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
Invest in the research, economic modelling and information synthesis needed to support policy transitions and better understand overall cost-benefits and how to manage trade-offs.
2022
Support the development of alternative policy scenarios for pilot countries that could help to illustrate the longer-term benefits of possible transition pathways.
2022
Encourage and support governments in designing policies for a better food environment and healthy and responsible consumption.
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
Repurpose subsidies to ensure alignment with intended food systems outcomes and underlying principles.
2022
Increase and target funding for the OneCGIAR and other research programmes and institutions to reflect context-specific needs and priorities.
2022
Encourage and support cross-ministerial and whole-of-government mechanisms to help drive national food systems transformation
2022
Maintain and strengthen support for the CFS and its High Level Panel of Experts, including by ensuring that resources are available for their policy role, substantive analytical work and effective monitoring and reporting, as well as by following the CFS’s policy guidance.
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
Encourage and support the reformed CGIAR system to provide food system-wide and policy-relevant research and analysis.
2022
Promote the institutionalization of appropriate labour standards in the governance of food systems to support equity of economic opportunity, enabling workers to earn a decent income and to ensure worker health and safety.
2022
Work in a much more integrated way across the traditional silos of agriculture, health, environment, economic development, infrastructure and trade.
2021
Data and reporting systems are not oriented to food systems. There is a significant data gap in being able to fully analyse development progress and funding from a food systems perspective.
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
The current global architecture of institutions, processes and platforms has evolved in a relatively ad hoc way, and there is a need to ensure that it can respond to the emerging and future needs of a food systems approach.
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
Donor investments and programmes need to be designed and managed with an understanding of how complex adaptive systems behave (i.e., they have high degrees of complexity and uncertainty that do not align with linear planning and hierarchical control).
2021
Adaptive, flexible, responsive, coordinated, learning-oriented and decentralized approaches to decision-making, policy and programming are required.
2021
Ensure that food systems provide inclusive (fair) economic opportunities for as many people as possible, including producers, workers and consumers.
2021
Look much more closely at the interactions, trade-offs and synergies across the food systems outcomes of livelihoods, nutrition and environment.
2021
Data and reporting systems are not oriented to food systems. There is a significant data gap in being able to fully analyse development progress and funding from a food systems perspective.
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 Food Systems Summit (FSS), with a particular focus on country-level assessment.
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
Shifting price incentives globally by repurposing border measures and market price controls can also make a healthy diet less costly and more affordable, albeit less than when fiscal subsidies are shifted from producers to consumers. With this option, GHG emissions from agriculture would fall, while potential trade-offs would also generally be avoided.
2022
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
Environmental, transportation and energy policies will be absolutely necessary to enhance the positive outcomes of the repurposing support efforts in the realms of efficiency, equality, nutrition, health, climate mitigation and the environment.
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