Recommendations for "Sector Development (94 results)"
Support food supply chains and avoid disruptions in food movement and trade (including providing clear health and safety guidelines for food workers).
Design and support urban and peri-urban agriculture to support the growing demand for nutritious foods in urban areas.
Consumer organizations can contribute to the application of the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] by informing and educating consumers about these Principles, and encouraging investment that respects these Principles.
2014
Foster transparent and inclusive business models and partnerships, including public private partnerships, to promote sustainable development.
2014
Civil society organizations involved in agriculture and food systems should apply the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] and are encouraged to integrate them in their own policies and programmes. They are also encouraged to advocate for the appropriate use of the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems], serve as drivers for transparency and accountability, and assist with building capacity with the aim of contributing to food security and nutrition.
2014
Civil society organizations are also encouraged to collaborate with other stakeholders at all stages of investments to use the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems], as well as to monitor and assess the impacts of responsible investment on agriculture and food systems.
2014
In order to foster investments in rural areas and in the agri-food sector, we encourage the exchange of best practices, including sustainable production methods, technology, workforce development, dissemination of information on financial tools and business opportunities, and the involvement of relevant stakeholders, including with countries with a high prevalence of food insecurity
2017
We need to sustain the benefits of globalization and open markets, highlighting the crucial importance of rejecting protectionism and encouraging the development of local, regional and international integrated agricultural markets. We underline the importance of a rules-based international trading system for agricultural trade and we are committed to reaching a balanced, comprehensive and ambitious conclusion of the Doha Round.
2009
Need for focusing on agro-food value chains toward inclusive and sustainable growth of the agro-food sector
2019
Support local communities and citizens to increase local food production and consumption.
2020
Ensure more equitable access to land and productive agricultural resources for small-scale producers who remain vital providers of food and food security in much of the less industrialized world.
2020
Ensure that FSN policies and programmes connect growing rural and urban food needs, including in small- and medium size towns, to sustainable livelihoods in the countryside that appeal to young people.
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
Catalyze investments that strengthen food supply links so that smallholders have greater market access and food transporters, distributors, processors, and retailers can thrive.
2020
Improve access to infrastructure and markets
2019
Introduce energy-efficient, low-carbon cold chains
2019
Improve harvesting techniques
2019
Integrate regional markets to develop comparative advantages in food production – a useful strategy when domestic resources are constrained.
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
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
Facilitate small-scale local food processing industries that provide new bottom-of-the-pyramid business and employment opportunities – especially for women and youth – and that increase access to a wider variety of food products.
2021
Create opportunities for smallholder farmers to diversify, both for income and for improved on-farm food supplies. Smallholders should be offered extension support for a wider range of crops – along with market access, in cases where diversification is beneficial for income growth. Approaches should vary with a food system’s type and stage of development: interventions for a traditional food system need to differ from those for an emerging food system.
2021
In creating opportunities to diversify, attention to women and youth is important. This implies the promotion of more equal access to productive assets between generations and between men and women.
2021
Enable midstream SMEs to raise agricultural productivity. In addition to midstream SMEs’ role in supporting smallholders in gaining access to quality inputs and good agricultural practices, downstream investments in processing and packaging facilities, transport logistics and cold-chain management help to guarantee continual production and consistent product quality. SMEs are therefore considered key multipliers for investment in domestic and regional markets.
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 will have to focus on interventions that create the enabling conditions for systemic change.
2022
The persistence of socio-economic inequalities amplifies the need for systemic changes in food systems to provide vulnerable and historically marginalized populations with greater access to productive resources, technology, data and innovation to empower them to become agents of change towards more sustainable food systems.
2021
The persistence of socio-economic inequalities amplifies the need for systemic changes in food systems to provide vulnerable and historically marginalized populations with greater access to productive resources, technology, data and innovation to empower them to become agents of change towards more sustainable food systems.
2021
Transformation of food systems means major, significant, deep, and broad changes beyond piecemeal reforms, incremental change, and narrowly focused projects and programs.
2021
Guarantee the right to food. Conceptualizing food as a right, rather than merely a market-based commodity, would provide a unified and universal framework for food systems transformation.
2021
Innovate and integrate what is already working. Change what needs to be changed, innovate, and adapt but also identify, keep, and build on what is working.
2021
Facilitate conflict resolution and negotiate trade-offs. Spotlighting the need for conflict resolution and trade-offs came with recognition that the urgency of food systems transformation means that disagreements must not become bottlenecks that stop the transition to more sustainable and equitable systems.
2021
Policies to enable the potential of small and intermediate cities and towns (SICTs) for growth, poverty reduction and improved access to affordable healthy diets should facilitate the flow of people, products and resources between such cities and their rural catchment areas, but also expand the reach of local agriculture to more distant markets.
2023
Agricultural extension is also important in rural areas, and can have positive effects on dietary diversity and quality at household levels. However, currently extension programmes are often oriented towards staple crops rather than nutritious foods such as fruits and vegetables. Changing the focus of these programmes could be essential for increasing the availability of these foods.
2023
Better linkages between producers, agro-industrial processors, agricultural and non-agricultural services, and other downstream segments of the agrifood value chain could provide more opportunities for SME development and, from a spatial perspective, could turn small and intermediate cities and towns (SICTs) into crucial “food exchange” nodes.
2023
Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) has the potential to increase the availability of fruits and vegetables for urban dwellers. The inclusion of urban agriculture objectives in city planning and regulations, often in HICs, can create adequate conditions for the development of urban agriculture.
2023
Building rural infrastructure, including quality rural and feeder roads to connect remote farms and enterprises to main road networks, is essential for unlocking the productive potential of small and intermediate cities and towns (SICTs) and their catchment areas.
2023
Promoting – while preserving – traditional foods originating from Indigenous Peoples’ agrifood systems through labelling and certification (including territorial labels, geographic indications and participatory guarantee schemes) can create niche markets and enhance awareness of the specificity of such products.
2023
Public investments (in addition to roads) to support linkages between (mainly small) farms and SMEs could include warehousing, cold storage, dependable electrification, access to digital tools and water supply.
2023
Building relationships and collective processes together with trusted representatives of the private sector, especially relevant market players, as well as governments and researchers in both social and natural sciences, can be critical in developing sustainable marketing strategies for Indigenous Peoples’ food products.
2023
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
While urban and peri-urban agriculture can improve food security and nutrition in and around cities, it is unlikely that it can satisfy the needs of urban populations, so its development should be complementary to that of rural agriculture and concentrate on activities where there is a distinct comparative advantage, such as production of fresh, perishable foods.
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
For street foods, important food safety actions include ensuring a supply of water of acceptable quality for food preparation, clean places for preparation and consumption of food, sanitary facilities for workers in food outlets, training for street vendors and consumer education. Interventions at national and local government levels are also required to ensure nutritional quality for street foods in each local situation.
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
There are opportunities to invest in processing SMEs, through the identification of specific value chains and products that can both be nutritious and provide value-added livelihood opportunities for value chain participants.
2023
Access to inputs such as seeds is key for supporting production of fruits and vegetables, and this is true across the rural–urban continuum. For example, different kinds of input subsidies (direct distribution of inputs, vouchers or targeted preferential prices) have been shown to have positive impacts in improving access to diverse and more nutritious foods at the household level.
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
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
Governments should, where appropriate integrate urban and peri-urban agriculture and land use into national and local food systems and nutrition development strategies and programmes, as well as urban and territorial planning, as a viable input into enabling healthy diets through sustainable food systems and support stable supply of safe and nutritious food.
2021
Governments, private sector, civil society and other relevant stakeholders should facilitate women’s equal access to entrepreneurship and employment opportunities across food systems and related activities, leveraging existing business platforms to generate adequate income, as well as increase women’s participation in decision-making on the use of household income and opportunities to build and manage savings.
2021
Governments, private sector and research centers should support research, monitoring, development and scaling up the use of innovative processing technologies and practices in accordance with the three dimensions of sustainable development that can retain the nutrient content of food, minimize post-harvest nutrient losses, create, where appropriate, new value added products from food processing by-products, and promote longer-term storage of food, particularly during periods of drought, flooding, and insufficient production.
2021
Governments should minimize barriers so that people can grow, transport, preserve, purchase, order or otherwise access diverse types of foods, including fresh and seasonal foods, that contribute to healthy diets through sustainable food systems in a given food environment.
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
Governments should recognize the growing trend of food purchased online and consumed away from home (including street food) and could, as appropriate to national circumstances, promote policies to encourage restaurants and online outlets to offer prepared dishes made from nutritious, safe and sustainably produced foods that contribute to healthy diets, display information about food on menus (i.e.calories, product composition, and other nutritional content as well as other relevant science and evidence-based information such as related to sustainable production and consumption, based on, where appropriate, indicators of 2030 Agenda), avoid food loss and waste, and respect food safety regulations.
2021
Women should be offered equal access to extension and advisory services for crops and animal products that they produce or process, capacity-building to engage with traders, financial services (e.g. credit and savings mechanisms), and entrepreneurial opportunities across food systems.
2021
Promote the integration of agroecological and other innovative approaches in policies and plans that address agriculture and food system challenges in a given context by strengthening the resilience of food systems, thus contributing to the three pillars of sustainable development within the 2030 Agenda; those policies and plans should make agroecological and other innovative approaches affordable and accessible, respond to local employment needs, contribute to equity and respond to the needs of all actors, in particular people in vulnerable situations.
2019
Foster the transition to resilient and diversified sustainable agriculture and food systems through agroecological and other innovative approaches.
2019
Create an enabling environment for young people to remain in, or move to, rural areas by: i) protecting their rights and livelihoods; ii) creating decent work opportunities, including through applying agroecological and other innovative approaches; and iii) by addressing specific challenges for young people such as access to land, in accordance with national legislation, mechanization and technologies, credit and information, educational and entrepreneurial opportunities, and by investing in rural infrastructure and services to reduce gaps between rural and urban areas.
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
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
Promote context-specific policies to bridge the digital divide between and within countries, as well as between rural and urban areas, by reducing currently existing technical, legislative, economic and educational barriers, and promote cooperation schemes to facilitate access to the application of digital tools, digital infrastructure, and technological solutions to improve rural attractiveness in particular for young people and women.
2019
Work with partner governments to ensure that donor investments support the “soft” investments needed in stakeholder dialogue, to improve systems change capabilities and for policy reform to transform food systems.
2023
Change the feed industry and promote new sources of proteins for feed.
2023
Develop innovation transfer and upscale successful aquaculture examples through cooperation programmes and public-private partnerships.
2023
Improve the utilization of sustainable wood products to replace GHG-intensive construction materials and other inputs.
2023
Integrate restoration efforts into productive schemes through agroforestry, sylvopasture and paludiculture.
2023
Improve the circular economy to ensure that that the fraction of food that could not be consumed by humans is properly used for feed, energy, or other industries.
2023
Foster global cooperation to facilitate knowledge sharing, technology transfer and capacity-building, enabling both developed and developing nations to participate in the transition to clean bioenergy.
2023
Scale up nutrition-sensitive agriculture programmes which promote diversified food production and consumption, particularly among poor households living in remote areas with little access to markets.
2024
Align actions throughout agrifood systems to ensure that diverse, nutritious foods are available to all people, including vulnerable populations, through the value chain – from farm to table.
2024
Shift food environments towards healthier dietary patterns with positive impact on human health by strengthening food environments (e.g. supporting healthy public food procurement and services); changing consumer behaviour to include sustainability considerations (e.g. improving trade standards with a nutrition-oriented lens, taxing energy-dense foods, introducing legislation on food marketing, food labelling and food reformulation, eliminating industrially produced trans fats).
2024
Develop urban and peri-urban food‑system resilience plans and establish contingency planning and early warning systems for fragility and shocks.
2024
Maintain and enhance food system diversity in terms of sources, supply chains and retail typologies, to bolster systemic resilience, considering the impact of urban and peri-urban food‑system decisions on resilience in rural hinterlands and beyond.
2024
Develop urban and peri-urban‑specific FSN data tools.
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
Enhance decent work and employment in urban and peri-urban food systems, including by providing childcare spaces within traditional markets, promoting occupational safety and health, guaranteeing labour rights, etc.
2024
Strengthen urban health services (neonatal and infant nutrition guidance, prevention diagnostics) for FSN outcomes.
2024
Build capacities of urban food‑system actors (especially the underrepresented, such as traditional market‑trader associations and consumer associations) to enable stronger representation.
2024
Facilitate inclusive access to quality extension, and breeding and veterinary services, particularly for smallholders, including those that are family farmers, and pastoralists.
2016
Consider adopting stronger regulation, including competition policy, to empower small and medium agri-food enterprises (SMEs) to participate in national, regional and global supply chains.
2020
Improved market infrastructure: To boost commercial linkages between rural and urban areas and ease the growing demand-pull from the latter to the former, commerce-enhancing infrastructure (hard and soft) must be expanded, including roads, electricity grids, connectivity, storage and warehousing capacity, and rural and wholesale markets (and complementary services).
2016
Promote inclusive food supply chain development by leveraging the transformations already taking place in downstream food supply chains, particularly the expansion of small and medium-sized enterprises and growth of off-farm employment
2020
Attraction of investments in rural infrastructure, small enterprise development (e.g. inputs, local storage and processing facilities, logistic and transport).
2016
Creation of incentives for local or regional sourcing and investment in sustainable local supply chains.
2016