Recommendations for "Markets and Trade (153 results)"
Support food supply chains and avoid disruptions in food movement and trade (including providing clear health and safety guidelines for food workers).
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
Greater emphasis needs to be placed on improving smallholders’ productivity through stronger links to input and output markets; better access to rural infrastructure and agricultural services; and access to capital and capacity building, especially among young people in agriculture.
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
Ensure smallholder-friendly financing and investment. Increasing capital flows toward rural areas requires innovation in the channels and instruments through which financial services are offered to smallholders, including young people. When it comes to smallholders, however, more research is needed to explore the viability and benefits of these innovative services before they can be scaled up.
2013
To minimize the negative impact that volatile energy (and hence food) prices have on farmers’ incentives and performance, the competition between food and biofuel production should be minimized by limiting policies that promote the use of grain feedstock to produce biofuels. Such a shift would require more investment in developing either biofuel crops that grow on marginalized lands that are unsuitable for food crops or feedstocks that come from the non-edible parts of crops or from nonfood crops.
2013
Address the factors that drive up the cost of nutritious foods by supporting food producers – especially small-scale producers – to get nutritious foods to markets at low cost, making sure people have access to these food markets, and making food supply chains work for vulnerable people – from small-scale producers to the billions of consumers whose income is insufficient to afford healthy diets.
2020
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
Reducing food prices by addressing low productivity in food production may increase the overall supply of food, including nutritious foods, and raise incomes, especially for poorer family farmers and smallholder producers in low-income and lower-middle-income countries. Analyzing diversification toward the production of horticultural products, legumes, small-scale fisheries, aquaculture, livestock and other nutritious food products may also be an effective way to reduce food prices by supplying diverse and nutritious foods in markets.
2020
Strengthen market organization by analyzing the overall quality and efficiency of existing infrastructure and improving national road networks, as well as transport and market infrastructure, which are critical in getting produce from the farm gate to markets at reasonable costs, promoting context-specific policies.
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
Increase direct support to smallholders to enhance their productivity, reduce pre-harvest and post-harvest losses, and ensure access to food markets, also through e-commerce channels.
2020
Disruptive effects on food value chains due to the COVID-19 pandemic require enhanced international cooperation and market transparency, as well as measures that facilitate the movement of food without compromising food safety and workers’ health, including the establishment of trade corridors and the temporary re-evaluation of technical trade barriers.
2020
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
Lower trade barriers can promote global value chains and contribute to growth in agriculture and the food industry. Every time products cross borders, they are subject to import tariffs, which escalate along global value chains and hinder value-added creation.
2020
Trade policies that foster open markets should be complemented by measures that improve the capacity to compete in modern global value chains. These include investments in infrastructure, effective regulation and, most importantly, measures targeting the upgrade of skills for farmers and workers.
2020
Productivity increases, in conjunction with more trade and competition, bring about increases in the availability of safe and nutritious food and drive its price down, resulting in improvements in access to food. For many people, this process results in improved food security and better diets, since it increases access to foods rich in micronutrients such as fruits, vegetables and animal‑sourced foods.
2020
Regional trade agreements can stimulate global value chain participation, as well as spur institutional and policy reform. But as many vulnerable countries continue to rely on global markets, international efforts should also promote multilateral trade.
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
GVC‑related trade has a stronger positive impact on productivity and income per capita compared to bilateral non‑GVC trade. Participation in GVCs may enable greater competitiveness, better inclusion in trade and investment flows, and improved access to technology and knowledge, all of which help to upgrade towards higher value‑added activities.
2020
Opening global markets can bring benefits to all trading partners and can create important spillover effects through the transmission of technology and the transfer of know‑how. Opening markets is more likely to result in significant benefits if complemented by other policies that underpin competitiveness, such as measures that improve governance and infrastructure, upgrade skills, remove rigidities in labour markets and facilitate the reallocation of labour between sectors. However, there are concerns about the short‑term effects of opening trade, especially the impacts on income distribution and inequality.
2020
To reap the benefits of GVC participation for economic growth, appropriate trade policies on both the import and export sides are critical. Opening to trade and removing market‑distorting policies could enhance the unbundling of production processes internationally, and thereby promote GVC participation. Through various mechanisms, opening to trade stimulates economic activities in general and can facilitate food system transformation, including the emergence of a domestic food industry
2020
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
Policies aimed at stabilizing food prices (Could include – Restrictions on exports of staple food items; Use of food stocks to boost the food supply; Consumptions subsidies for certain essential food items; and Import tariff and consumption/sales tax cuts
2019
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
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
Improve income, generating shared value through enforceable and fair contracts, fostering entrepreneurship and equal access to market opportunities both on-farm and for upstream and downstream stakeholders.
2014
Encourage market access and participation by smallholders by simplifying administrative procedures and striving to prevent unfair practices.
2014
Support the development of markets for rural economies.
2014
Improve access to education, training and capacity development for small and medium enterprises, cooperatives, associations, and farmer and producer organizations to enable them to enter into agreements and engage with other market actors.
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
Strengthen transparency in price formation processes and access to markets to improve the ability of all farmers, with special attention to smallholders, women and young farmers, to benefit from market returns to their labor and financial investments and reinforce their role in the food value chain.
2017
Recognize the importance of the rules-based international trading system, taking agriculture into account.
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
Enabling the environment for job creation and inclusive growth in the agri-food sector of developing countries can alleviate the causes of rural exodus and irregular migration. Agri-food trade, through transparent and well-functioning markets and in line with the WTO commitments, also contributes to promoting FVCs globally and opening new opportunities for rural producers. In addition, trade can contribute to reducing food price volatility.
2016
Farmers must be the main protagonists of the agricultural sector. Agriculture must serve citizens’ needs for food security and food safety, producing safe, nutritious food in response to consumer demand and must not be allowed to be negatively affected by trade distortions.
2009
Support the role of well functioning markets as a means for improving food security.
2009
Keep international food trade open and strengthen global, regional and local diversified value chains for safe, fresh and nutritious food. It is crucial to maintain global food trade open, and to keep food markets functioning.
2021
Facilitate ongoing international efforts to improve trade rules affecting agriculture, noting that measures inconsistent with international rules and obligations may undermine the efficient functioning of FVCs, calling on all countries to respect their obligations in this area.
2019
Improve opportunities to diversify agri-food production and increase productivity, production, incomes and employment in a sustainable manner.
2018
Strengthen access to financial systems, risk management instruments and output markets.
2018
Highlight the importance of both encouraging the use of innovative agricultural practices and technologies that improve the productivity and sustainability of agriculture, as well as efficiently bringing such innovations to farmers and the global marketplace.
2018
It is important to have an open and transparent multilateral trading system, based on rules as agreed by WTO members, to achieve the objectives of a sustainable food future, job creation, hunger and poverty eradication, and inclusive economic growth, to promote sustainable agri-food supply chains and also to foster the responsible agricultural investment needed to increase productivity in the sector and thus address the growing demand for food.
2018
Commit to base sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical regulations on international standards, guidelines and recommendations set by relevant international organizations, or assessment of risk as appropriate to the circumstances, as well as to refrain from adopting unnecessary obstacles to international trade.
2018
Promote decent work and the formalization of jobs, aided by ongoing skills development.
2018
Promote transparency in global food markets by strengthening commitments to the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS), which should further evolve, while also considering the monitoring of food trade junctures that are important to international trade.
2018
Pursue greater agricultural investment consistent with the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.
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
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
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
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
Support diverse food production and distribution networks, including territorial market arrangements.
2020
Take responsible trade measures to maintain food price stability, especially in situations of public health and food emergencies.
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
Ensure market access, both upstream and downstream, at remunerative prices for smallholder producers through government procurement programmes (e.g. public distribution and school feeding).
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
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
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
Access to inputs: Reduce tariffs and non tariff measures; reform services
2020
Market Access: Deepen trade agreements to cover investment and services. Trade agreements expand market access, and they have been a critical catalyst for GVC entry in a wide range of countries
2020
Improve access to infrastructure and markets
2019
Use market-based incentives and innovation programmes to support poor people’s food purchasing power and women’s bargaining power – and enable them to make better-informed food choices through training, labelling, communication and digitalization.
2021
Support nutrient recycling in production and food systems with knowledge development, innovation programmes and market-support measures.
2021
Diversify food production and the composition of trade – a strategy that is more available to countries with greater agricultural potential.
2021
Enhance competitiveness and improve market access for local farmers and SMEs.
2021
Incorporate social and environmental externalities, and reinforce non-market values in trade policies.
2021
Provide market incentives for SME investments to strengthen more circular and sustainable food systems. Midstream SMEs generate substantial environmental externalities through agrochemical use and through unresolved trade-offs between packaging materials and food waste. Investments in better equipment, technical innovations and knowledge can help midstream SMEs meet sustainability standards.
2021
Support the moderate intake of processed foods and UPFs through incentives for responsible business innovation processes and standard setting facilities for the food environment – because producers are most likely to respond positively to a combination of enabling and constraining incentives.
2021
Increasing the access that small-scale producers have to productive assets, including knowledge and market linkages, cuts across all food system types.
2021
Enhance public procurement and other forms of structured and mediated markets, such as farm-to-school and public nutrition programmes, for sustainable and youth-led enterprises, using fair and transparent prices.
2021
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
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
To take advantage of the opportunities that a global repurposing of border measures, market price controls and fiscal subsidies may offer in practice, countries will have to consider their commitments and flexibilities under WTO rules.
2022
Non-tariff trade measures can help improve food safety, quality standards and the nutritional value of food, and minimize any unintended consequences, but they can also drive up the costs of trade and hence food prices, negatively affecting the affordability of healthy diets.
2021
Non-tariff trade measures can help improve food safety, quality standards and nutritional values, as well as minimize any unintended consequences, but they can also drive up the costs of trade and hence food prices, negatively affecting the affordability of healthy diets.
2021
Policy measures, including food standards, fiscal, labelling, reformulation, public procurement and marketing policies can shape healthier food environments.
2021
Improving access and affordability of healthy diets through school food and nutrition programmes (among others) especially ones designed to improve dietary diversity, while also encouraging the purchase of fresh food from local producers. In-kind transfers, especially in places where food markets are not functioning well, could increase access to nutritious foods, in addition to food subsidies, especially those focused on nutritious foods and targeted at the most vulnerable.
2021
While efforts to reduce transport-related GHGs should be continued, free and open trade should be an integral part of climate-smart agricultural and food policies. Trade allows countries to obtain nutritious foods at the lowest cost and can be a key tool for adaptation in the face of weather-related shocks. Globally, trade can also promote more efficient use of natural resources and thus help reduce GHG emissions from agrifood production.
2022
In order to attract private sector investment, public investments need to be more targeted and part of more comprehensive national strategies for infrastructure development. For example, building “last-mile” infrastructure and logistics that enable delivery from a distribution centre or facility to the end user, opens up possibilities for producers to reach bigger markets and, in the process, creates conditions that foster agribusiness development.
2023
In general, investments in connectivity between locations and components of agrifood systems in small and intermediate cities and towns (SICTs) have spurred substantial development of and investments by SMEs and the creation of spontaneous clusters of wholesale and logistics SMEs. Such clusters, in turn, induce farmers to increase their crop variety and to use more inputs.
2023
Lower trading costs could provide the right incentives for smallholder farmers to shift their production to more nutritious foods which, considering their availability gap, could be key for making healthy diets more available and affordable for all.
2023
Investing in improved and gender-sensitive wholesale market infrastructure (e.g. in territorial food markets) could improve supply of fresh products and facilitate compliance with food safety and quality standards by smallholder producers, incentivize producers to supplyhigher-quality foods that could bring them better returns, and increase the quantity and variety of food supply through vertical and horizontal scaling.
2023
The increased use of mobile phones in LMICs has contributed to the adoption of other services such as mobile money, enabling reduced transaction costs and enhanced financial inclusion. Mobile money can improve farmers’ access to higher-value markets (thus increasing their income) and to off-farm income sources as well.
2023
Cold chains provide benefits in terms of maintaining food quality (including nutritional quality) and safety, reducing food loss and waste, and facilitating market access, and they are also key to maintaining the integrity of veterinary medicines and vaccines to help prevent and manage outbreaks of zoonotic diseases.
2023
E-commerce platforms offer opportunities to increase affordability of healthy diets, by shortening value chains and increasing market access.
2023
E-commerce platforms can contribute to women’s empowerment by enabling women to earn an independent source of income, work from home, and set their own working hours.
2023
E-commerce has the potential to reduce the number of intermediaries and balance the power relationships within value chains, resulting in higher prices paid for producers and cheaper produce for consumers.
2023
Allow markets to work by removing distortions and support the most vulnerable countries and households via social safety nets, and where most needed, through humanitarian assistance.
2022
The most effective measures to combat food insecurity will be those that aim to keep trade in food and fertilizer products open and those that target to mitigate the impacts of high food prices on the most vulnerable.
2022
Trade and financial sanctions should exempt food products and critical agricultural inputs like fertilizer.
2022
Countries should refrain from implementing export bans and restrictions. Export restrictions drive global prices even higher, making it even more difficult for net food importing countries to purchase food. Moreover, export bans tend to be contagious, as other exporting countries follow suit and implement their own bans.
2022
Countries should avoid hoarding and panic buying. Panic buying can disrupt the orderly marketing of commodities and drive prices up in the short run. Supply hoarding can exacerbate price volatility and potentially be costly as prices fall over time as more supplies become available.
2022
Food self-sufficiency policies will exacerbate, not solve global food insecurity. Policies should not segment markets but aim at creating more opportunities for a larger number of countries—helping global markets to become more diversified and inclusive.
2022
Design regulations to improve the functioning of markets for land, inputs, services, and water, while protecting the vulnerable and preventing the concentration of resources.
2023
Invest in territorial approaches in food systems and regional development planning, including in agroecology and in local markets, strengthening regional trade and market connections to create a judicious mix of local and distant market opportunities for small-scale producers and to benefit local consumers.
2023
Ensure that supply chains, especially local ones, are enabled to provide improved access to nutrient-dense foods for all consumers at affordable prices.
2023
Invest in rural transport, market infrastructure, nutrient-preserving food processing and food storage, with special consideration for disadvantaged groups and places, and supporting territorial markets.
2023
Undertake proactive planning of food environments in areas of rapid demographic growth to ensure equitable and affordable access to food, promoting access to nutrient-rich foods, facilitating access to local fishers’ and farmers’ markets, and restricting marketing and advertising of unhealthy foods.
2023
Recognize the role of informal vendors in meeting the FSN needs of populations, including marginalized groups, and develop planning and policy tools to create an enabling environment to enhance their capacity to sell nutritious and safe food.
2023
Acknowledging that a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable, multilateral trading system will promote agriculture and rural development in developing countries and contribute to achieving food security and improving nutrition.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental and regional organizations should implement national, regional and international strategies to promote the inclusive participation of farmers and fishers and fish workers, including small-scale farmers, indigenous peoples and local communities, peasants and other small-scale food producers, food systems workers, including women, in community, national, regional and international markets.
2021
Governments should support market information systems that provide timely, accessible, transparent information about food-related market transactions, including enhanced tracking of current and future supply stocks and price data including for local and territorial markets, where possible and appropriate.
2021
Governments should support agricultural economic research on topics which may include trade and impacts of government policies. Further monitoring and market studies on underreported commodities including those with a major impact on nutrition and neglected and underutilized crops should also be developed.
2021
Governments, private sector, and other stakeholders should, where appropriate, invest in infrastructure (e.g. storage facilities, transport infrastructure, physical markets and market information systems) and logistical support to prevent postharvest loss and waste and support the ability of food producers, including smallholders and micro, small and medium-size enterprises to deliver diverse, perishable and safe food to local, regional, international markets in sustainable ways.
2021
Governments should improve the availability of and access to safe and nutritious food that contributes to healthy diets through sustainable food systems, and ensure that is has a positive impact on the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, including through trade that should be in accordance with a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable,multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization.
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 should examine measures to encourage farmers and fishers markets, mobile food retailers, street food vendors and other retailers that sell a variety of foods, both locally grown and globally sourced, that contribute to healthy diets through sustainable food systems.
2021
Governments, in consultation with consumer associations and local residents, can promote local food retailers and markets to increase the number, variety, and sale of sustainably produced safe and nutritious foods, both locally grown and globally sourced, that contribute to healthy diets through sustainable food systems.
2021
Instituting rural and urban planning policies, facilitating internet access and innovative service delivery, policies and instruments that encourage retail outlets and local, street and wet markets to sell a variety of safe, affordable nutritious foods that contribute to healthy diets through sustainable food systems, and that promote, as and when appropriate, local production, including home, community, and school food production and gardens, as well as national and international markets where appropriate.
2021
Early warning systems should be integrated into broader food analysis systems including the monitoring of the availability and affordability of nutritious foods that contribute to healthy diets through sustainable food systems at the local level.
2021
Strengthen public policies to harness market mechanisms to enable sustainable agriculture and food systems by considering economic, environmental, and social, including public health, externalities, trade-offs and synergies.
2019
In collaboration with relevant actors, including the private sector, promote local, national, regional and global markets, and their interconnections, as appropriate, that enhance food security and nutrition, strengthen supply chains in particular local ones and demonstrate concrete contributions to sustainable agriculture and food systems, that do not impact negatively on livelihoods.
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
Strengthen local, national and regional markets (through appropriate measures such as processing hubs, transportation infrastructure and adapted food safety regulations in line with international standards (IPPC, Codex and OIE) to link urban communities and rural territories through sustainable food production systems that support rural livelihoods, including by capturing a high proportion of the value of production locally.
2019
Support market and social innovations that strengthen linkages between urban communities and food producers, in particular small-scale producers and family farmers that provide sustainably produced healthy, safe and nutritious food to all consumers while providing living wages and decent livelihoods to producers. This could include Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), participatory guarantee systems (in compliance with public policy and safety standards), and relevant product differentiation systems.
2019
Harness digital technologies to establish and strengthen more direct links between producers and consumers offering opportunities for economic diversification, including through brokering sustainable finance initiatives, market opportunities and solidarity economy initiatives.
2019
Facilitate the use of social media and digital networking to promote producers’ leadership and engagement in relevant processes and to increase availability and access to affordable and reliable networks.
2019
Improve market access and value addition for farmers, especially for women.
2023
Targeted support to increase the production of specific crops or the use of chemical inputs should be phased out and replaced with less distortive interventions.
2023
Support for high-GHG crops should be replaced with non-discriminatory payments and incentives towards enhanced practices (e.g. through cross compliance).
2023
Improve knowledge and understanding of trade-offs for low- and middle-income country smallholders when joining carbon markets so that they avoid forfeiting their agricultural growth potential.
2023
Change pricing mechanisms through public policies to avoid incentivizing food waste.
2023
Protect an open and rule-based global trading system and avoid unpredictable or untransparent trade policy measures.
2023
Improve trade rules and global consultative processes to develop shared methods and recognitions for common environmental labels and certifications.
2023
Increase availability and reduce prices of nutritious foods by repurposing agricultural policies toward nutritious foods and increasing investment in transport, infrastructure, and logistics.
2024
Address foodborne disease with better monitoring and food safety systems, especially in informal markets.
2024
Strengthen economic resilience of the most vulnerable to economic adversity by strengthening agrifood productivity and market linkages along the food supply chain; curbing rises in food prices and excessive price volatility; boosting decent job creation; expanding social protection schemes and school feeding programmes.
2024
National governments, together with local government actors, should work to ensure that trade regulations and policy are oriented towards increasing access and affordability of healthy diets, with a particular focus on poor families, protecting urban and peri-urban populations from the increasing availability and targeted marketing of foods high in sugar, salt and fat and protecting the interests of small‑scale and informal operators.
2024
Include local government in national dialogues on food‑trade policy to raise awareness of the specific needs and contributions of urban and peri-urban food systems to the national economy and FSN, and by strengthening the capacity of urban food‑policy actors to engage with trade and investment policy stakeholders.
2024
Consider the implications of trade policies on poor and food‑insecure urban and peri-urban consumers.
2024
Assess the role of the informal sector in cross‑border trade and integrating provisions in policy to support and protect this trade from harassment and extortion.
2024
Foster diversity of midstream food actors through mechanisms to support small‑scale and informal‑sector actors, including the development and maintenance of public food infrastructure (for example wholesale, traditional and digital markets), and ensuring fair supply‑chain practices to redistribute value.
2024
Support wholesale markets to strengthen connections with small‑scale producers, leveraging them to increase access to affordable, diverse and healthy diets.
2024
Strengthen different types of markets and retailers (wholesale, traditional, wet, weekly) in the urban and peri-urban areas in enabling access to healthy and affordable foods and promoting livelihoods.
2024
Prioritize – together with private‑sector actors – support for innovation and technologies for small businesses and projects that connect consumers to smallholder farmers through apps and delivery services, such as community‑supported agriculture programmes.
2024
In addition to strengthening markets, non‑market food sources, such as public procurement, community kitchens and remittances, should also be supported and developed to cater to the most vulnerable population groups and to provide buffer in times of crises.
2024
Improve the business environment for the agri-food system: including reforming regulations and licensing requirements that impede the establishment or expansion of new enterprises; improving contract law and enforcement processes; improving regulations for financial and insurance services; improving land policies so that farmers have secure access to their land and agribusinesses can acquire land for building purposes; regulating input markets (e.g., seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and veterinary medicines) to ensure minimum quality and safety standards; and regulating agricultural and food markets to ensure minimum food safety and quality standards.
2017
Free up regional trade in agricultural products. Greater freedom to trade regionally would help maintain farm gate prices. Regional trade can also be an important buffer to offset production shortfalls in any one country, helping stabilize prices for consumers. However, more open regional trade can be a mixed blessing if not supported by stable and predictable rules-based policies for handling national food crises.
2017
Priority should also be given to infrastructure investment that favors linkages between rural areas and secondary cities and towns, including improved wholesale markets in those cities and towns linked by information flows to improved rural assembly markets.
2017
Develop and implement policies and tools to facilitate farmers’ access to markets and credit to help improve their livelihoods
2016
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
Policies to boost domestic production of food such as: Free or subsidized input distribution; Import-tariff or value-added tax cuts on fertilizers and technology production; Government-funded agricultural research and extension activities and Subsidies for the adoption of new technologies and irrigation
2019
In order to generate positive pathways, it is important to think, invest and act long-term. The interaction of food security and nutrition interventions with complex processes of social change both shape and are shaped by individual and household behaviors, social norms, institutions, the operation of markets, and collective action.
2017
Recognize that changes in the global economic system have varied impacts and varied solutions
2020
Enable smallholder engagement in dynamic food supply chains by addressing issues that hinder participation. Policies and regulatory frameworks should ensure land tenure security, access to credit, training and technical assistance, and resilience-enhancing social protection
2020
Labor costs: Avoid rigid regulation and exchange rate misalignment
2020
Improve policy predictability and pursue deep trade agreements
2020
Deepen traditional cooperation to address remaining barriers to trade in goods and services, as well as other measures that distort trade, such as subsidies and the activities of state-owned enterprises.
2020
Improve price incentives and increase the quality and quantity of public investment
2008
Facilitation of collaborative schemes between different food system actors (e.g. cooperation agreements among retailers to establish marketing codes of conduct).
2016