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Towards the Development of the Programme on
Sustainable Food Systems (SFSP) of the 10-Year
Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption
and Production Patterns (10YFP)
Collection of contributions received
Discussion No. 112
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction to the topic ..............................................................................................................................................8
Contributions received .................................................................................................................................................9
1. Robert Vincin, Emission Trading Association Australia Ltd, Australia ....................................................... 9
2. Wilfried Bommert World Food Institute - Institut für Welternährung, Germany .................................. 9
3. Ms. Carolina Arroyave Alcaldia de Medellín, Colombia ..................................................................................... 9
4. Molly Anderson, College of the Atlantic, United States of America ............................................................ 10
5. Luis Harol Estrada, Baños Universidad tecnologíca de mineral de la reforma, Mexico .................... 10
6. Carol Levin, University of Washington, United States of America.............................................................. 11
7. Manuel Moya, International Pediatric Association. TAG on Nutrition, Spain ........................................ 11
8. Anna Davies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland ...................................................................................................... 11
9. Selina Juul, Stop Wasting Food movement Denmark (Stop Spild Af Mad), Denmark ........................ 12
10.
Global Bioenergy Partnership, Italy ............................................................................................................... 12
11.
Ramón Guevara, Nicaragua ............................................................................................................................... 12
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Divesh Bhadani, Desta Global, India .............................................................................................................. 13
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Bhubaneswor Dhakal, Nepal ............................................................................................................................. 13
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Annie Luteijn, Netherlands ................................................................................................................................ 14
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Thomas Bernet, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Switzerland ........................ 14
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Bibhu Santosh Behera Ouat Bhubaneswar, India .................................................................................... 14
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Santosh Kumar Mishra, S. N. D. T. Women's University, India............................................................ 15
18.
Gian Linard Nicolay, FiBL, Switzerland ........................................................................................................ 15
19.
Bert Cramer, OSCE Academy Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan ................................................................................ 16
20.
Dosse Sossouga, Amis des Etrangers au Togo (ADET), Togo .............................................................. 16
21.
Fruit Juice CSR Platform, Denmark ................................................................................................................ 17
22.
Dosse Sossouga, Amis des Etrangers au Togo (ADET), Togo .............................................................. 17
23.
Cahyono Agus, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia .............................................................................. 17
24.
Nadia Scialabba, FAO, Italy ................................................................................................................................ 18
25.
Mark Barthel, WRAP, United Kingdom ......................................................................................................... 18
26.
Bruno Kestemont, Head Territory Statistics, Belgium ........................................................................... 19
27.
Roberto Capone, CIHEAM-Bari, Italy ............................................................................................................. 19
28.
Bibhu Santosh Behera, Ouat Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ................................................................... 20
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Hellmut von Koerber, fleXinfo, Switzerland ............................................................................................... 20
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Stephen Ngenchi, Community Partners for Sustainable Development, Cameroon ................... 21
31.
Gisèle Yasmeen, University of British Columbia, Canada ..................................................................... 21
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E.V.S. Prakasa Rao, Independent Researcher, India ................................................................................ 21
33.
Md. Moshfaqur Rahman, Bangladesh ............................................................................................................ 22
34.
Subhash Mehta, Devarao Shivaram Trust, India....................................................................................... 22
35.
Subhash Mehta, Devarao Shivaram Trust, India....................................................................................... 24
36.
Andrew Jones, University of Michigan, USA ............................................................................................... 29
37.
Johannes Kahl, Food Quality and Health Research Association (FQH), Germany ...................... 29
38.
Marija Bodroža-Solarov, University of Novi Sad, Serbia ....................................................................... 30
39.
Unati Speirs, Department of Trade and Industry, South Africa.......................................................... 30
40.
Florence Egal, Food Security and Nutrition expert, Italy ...................................................................... 31
41.
Johannes Kahl, Food Quality and Health Research Association (FQH), Germany ...................... 32
42.
Raymond Kofi Saky, agronomist, Ghana ...................................................................................................... 32
43.
Subhash Mehta, Devarao Shivaram Trust, India....................................................................................... 32
44.
Carola Strassner, Muenster University of Applied Sciences, Germany ........................................... 35
45.
Jostein Hertwig, BERAS International, Sweden ........................................................................................ 35
46.
Flavio Paoletti, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CRA) / Research Centre on
Food and Nutrition (CRA-NUT), Italy ........................................................................................................................... 36
47.
Ewa Rembiałkowska, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland .................................................. 37
48.
Geoff Tansey, United Kingdom......................................................................................................................... 37
49.
Nico van Belzen, International Dairy Federation, Netherlands ......................................................... 37
50.
Susanne Bügel, Institut for Idræt og Ernæring, Denmark .................................................................... 38
51.
Angelika Ploeger, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences Kassel University, Germany ....... 38
52.
Liza Oates, RMIT University, Australia ......................................................................................................... 39
53.
Lal Manavado, Norway ........................................................................................................................................ 40
54.
Bruno Taupier-Létage, ITAB Commission Qualité, France................................................................... 45
55.
David Gould, IFOAM, United States of America......................................................................................... 46
56.
Chetana Mirle, Humane Society International, United States of America ...................................... 47
57.
Wahyudi David, Universitas Bakrie, Indonesia ......................................................................................... 47
58.
Gisèle Yasmeen, University of British Columbia, Canada ..................................................................... 48
59.
Emilie Prattico, BSR, France .............................................................................................................................. 48
60.
Michael Brander, Biovision Foundation, Switzerland ............................................................................ 49
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Cesar E. López, Alianza BERAS del Caribe, Dominican Republic ....................................................... 49
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Subhash Mehta, Devarao Shivaram Trust, India....................................................................................... 50
63.
Elliot Berry, Israel ................................................................................................................................................. 51
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F. Xavier Medina, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain ................................................................... 51
65.
David Mugambi Mbuba, GRADIF-K, Kenya ................................................................................................. 52
66.
Emil Mohr, Debio, Norway ................................................................................................................................. 52
67.
Stephen Thornhill Dept of Food Business & Development, University College Cork, Ireland53
68.
Lluis Serra-Majem, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria & International Mediterranean
Diet Foundation, Spain........................................................................................................................................................ 54
69.
Patricia Lopez, FoodDrinkEurope, Belgium ............................................................................................... 54
70.
Antonia Trichopoulou, Hellenic Health Foundation, Greece ............................................................... 55
71.
Lorenzo Donini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy ............................................................................... 55
72.
Tozie Zokufa, Pan African Animal Welfare Alliance, South Africa .................................................... 55
73.
Delanie Kellon, International Dairy Federation, Belgium ..................................................................... 55
74.
Dan Crossley, Food Ethics Council, United Kingdom .............................................................................. 56
75.
Sivabalan Kulandaivel Chellappan, Extensio, India ................................................................................. 57
76.
Leonardo Mirone, Barilla, Italy ........................................................................................................................ 57
77.
Frank Eyhorn, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Switzerland ...................................................... 57
78.
Massimo Iannetta, ENEA, Italy ......................................................................................................................... 58
79.
Denis Lairon, INSERM, France ......................................................................................................................... 58
80.
Frank Grothaus, UNFSS, Switzerland ............................................................................................................ 58
81.
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) , Switzerland......................................................... 59
82.
Laurence Beck, Wessanen, Netherlands ...................................................................................................... 59
83.
Yuri Cartier, International Union for Health Promotion and Education, France ........................ 60
84.
Patrick Mink, Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), Switzerland ................................................... 60
85.
Perumal Karuppan, BERAS, India ................................................................................................................... 61
86.
Dora Fiani, Knowledge Economy Foundation, Egypt ............................................................................. 62
87.
Alexandrina Sirbu, AGIR, Romania ................................................................................................................. 62
88.
Raymond Sakyi, agronomist, Ghana .............................................................................................................. 63
89.
Said Zarouali, Haut Commissariat au Plan, Morocco .............................................................................. 63
90.
Alison Blay-Palmer, Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Canada................................. 64
91.
Peter Stevenson, Compassion in World Farming, United Kingdom ................................................. 64
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Subhash Mehta, Devarao Shivaram Trust, India....................................................................................... 65
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Molly Anderson, College of the Atlantic, United States of America................................................... 67
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Moritz Teriete, Sustainable Food Systems GmbH, Switzerland ......................................................... 67
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Leonardo Novo, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Brazil ............................... 68
96.
Marly Winckler, Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira SVB, Brazil .......................................................... 68
97.
Dominique Senn, foodwaste.ch, Switzerland ............................................................................................. 68
98.
Anne Roulin, Nestlé, Switzerland .................................................................................................................... 69
99.
Ruth Bastow, Global Plant Council, United Kingdom ............................................................................. 69
100.
Denis Lairon, Aix-Marseille Université, France......................................................................................... 70
101.
Ewa Rembiałkowska, Faculty of Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences WULS, Poland .. 70
102.
Joshua Konkakoh, Better World Cameroon, Cameroon ........................................................................ 71
103.
Reuben Sessa, FAO , Italy.................................................................................................................................... 71
104.
Tom Andrews, Soil Association, United Kingdom .................................................................................... 71
105.
David Neven, Italy ................................................................................................................................................. 72
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Clara Homs Bassedas, NGO Nutrition Without Borders , Spain ......................................................... 72
107.
Harry Donkers, Innonet, Netherlands ........................................................................................................... 73
108.
Ministry of Agriculture , Brazi .......................................................................................................................... 73
109.
Carolina Obando, Ministerio de Agricultura, Ecuador ........................................................................... 73
110.
Aline Stämpfli, University of Bern and Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland..... 74
111.
Muhammad Ariful Haque, Kamfisht Universe Engineering, Bangladesh ....................................... 74
112.
Marion Hammerl, Lake Constance Foundation, Germany .................................................................... 75
113.
Jean Marius D’Alexandris, Lyseconcept, France ....................................................................................... 75
114.
Global Nature Fund, Germany .......................................................................................................................... 76
115.
Adam Drewnowski, Center for Public Health Nutrition, USA ............................................................. 76
116.
Peter Defranceschi, ICLEI, Belgium ................................................................................................................ 76
117.
Susan H. Brangdon, Quaker UN Office, Switzerland ................................................................................ 77
118.
. Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition ..................................................................................................... 77
119.
Angela Polito, CRA-NUT, Italy........................................................................................................................... 78
120.
David Neven, Italy ................................................................................................................................................. 78
121.
Cristina Agrillo, Slow Food, Italy ..................................................................................................................... 78
122.
Martina Bavec, University of Maribor, Slovenia ....................................................................................... 79
123.
Sebastian Kretschmer, Drexel University, Equatorial Guinea............................................................. 79
124.
Allison Loconto, FAO, Italy ................................................................................................................................. 79
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Aimée Hampel-Milagrosa, German Development Institute, Germany ............................................ 80
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Alessandro Pirani, Future Food Institute .................................................................................................... 80
127.
Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department, FAO, Italy.......................................................... 81
128. Sebastian Kretschmer, Drexel University - Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program partnering
with FQH, Equatorial Guinea ............................................................................................................................................ 81
129.
Bernardete Neves, Land and Water Division, FAO, Italy ....................................................................... 81
130.
Harry Donkers, Innonet, Netherlands ........................................................................................................... 83
131.
A C Baker, The Vegan Society, United Kingdom........................................................................................ 83
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Paulo Estevão Cruvinel, Brazilian Corporation for Agricultural Research (Embrapa), Brazil83
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Jonica Otarra, Center for Integrated Development and Social Marketing,Inc., Philippines .... 84
134.
Karl von Koerber, Working Group on Sustainable Nutrition, Germany ......................................... 84
135.
Gabor Figeczky, IFOAM - Organics International, Germany ................................................................ 85
136.
Aly M. Abdel-Salam, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt ............................................... 85
137.
Keith James, WRAP, United Kingdom ............................................................................................................ 86
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Marie Persson and Tara Garnett, Food Climate Research Network, UK ......................................... 86
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Paulo E. Cruvinel, Embrapa Instrumentation, Brazil .............................................................................. 86
140.
James Lomax, UNEP, Kenya, France............................................................................................................... 87
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Augustin Efoegan Efoe, Togo ............................................................................................................................ 87
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Nic Lampkin, Organic Research Centre, United Kingdom .................................................................... 88
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Kelliane Fuscaldi, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Brazil ........................... 89
144.
Kelliane Fuscaldi, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Brazil ........................... 89
145. Gloria Hanna Jabbour Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of of Zahle and Bekaa,
Lebanon..................................................................................................................................................................................... 90
146.
Elise Golan, U.S. Department of Agriculture, United States of America .......................................... 90
147.
Gábor Figeczky, IFOAM - Organics International, Germany ................................................................ 91
148.
Christine Cherbut, INRA, France ..................................................................................................................... 91
149.
Jochen Krimphoff, Fondation WWF-France ............................................................................................... 92
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Kelliane Fuscaldi, Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Agropecuário e Cooperativismo, Brazil . 93
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FAO Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction, Italy ........................................................ 93
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Charbel Mahfoud, Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED), Lebanon............ 94
153.
Laura Patricia Brenes Peralta, Escuela de Agronegocios, TEC, Costa Rica .................................... 95
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GS1 AISBL, Belgium .............................................................................................................................................. 95
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Introduction to the topic
Dear all,
Pursuant to the enhanced Memorandum of Understanding signed on September 24th 2014 between
the Director-General of FAO and the Executive Director of UNEP, FAO and UNEP are jointly
developing a programme on sustainable food systems under the 10-Year Framework of
Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns (10YFP1), based on the
experience and work under the FAO-UNEP Sustainable Food Systems Programme.2 This follows a
decision by the Agri-food Taskforce on Sustainable Consumption and Production of the FAO-UNEP
Sustainable Food Systems Programme, the approval of the 10YFP Board of a preliminary proposal
presented by FAO and UNEP, and the recommendation of the Committee on Agriculture of FAO at
its 24th session.
As part of this process, a public consultation is being organized in order to:
1) take stock of information on initiatives of relevance for the development of the Programme,
particularly to avoid duplication and facilitate synergies and partnerships;
2) collect comments and input on a short draft concept note, for the further development
of the Programme;
3) collect potential expressions of interest of entities to participate in the the Programme as
Lead/Co-leads and/or as member of the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Committee (MAC)
and/or work area coordinators and/or simple partners.
The results of the consultation will be used to further develop the concept note. A Multi-stakeholder
Advisory Committee (MAC) will be constituted, with Lead/Co-leads.
The Lead/Co-leads, together with the MAC will finalize the concept note and develop a full
programme proposal, which will be submitted to the 10YFP Secretariat for formal validation of the
10YFP Board. More details on the process are available on the Web site of the 10YFP
(www.unep.org/10yfp).
We thank you in advance for your interest, support and efforts, and for sharing your knowledge and
experiences with us.
We look forward to your contributions.
Ms Maria Helena Semedo
FAO Deputy Director-General
Mr Ibrahim Thiaw
UNEP Deputy Executive Director
1 http://www.unep.org/10yfp
2 http://www.fao.org/ag/ags/sustainable-food-consumption-and-production/en
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Contributions received
1. Robert Vincin, Emission Trading Association Australia Ltd, Australia
Your noble work and reporting is critical. I can only contribute to the solutions you seek by adding
our work in growing soil soil-carbon food in deserts and like areas. Google will give detail reference
data and YouTube visuals of our work with PRC Government in hostile array of deserts. The science
and protocol and understanding of perpetual growth can be taught. Well planned the bonus it be it
a layout for Farming or Grazing the 2-4% of Earths native plants selected meet UNFCCC CO2e offset
rules hence funding. I would be pleased in this important year to assist FAO/UNEP.
I attended your 1st African food security assembly and many AU nations want to start but it needs
FAO coordination
Robert Vincin
2. Wilfried Bommert World Food Institute - Institut für Welternährung, Germany
Dear all,
I would like to send the participation forms to whom it may concern.
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Bommert_Participation_in_SFS_progr
amme_EN.docx
3. Ms. Carolina Arroyave Alcaldia de Medellín, Colombia
Cordial saludo,
Mi nombre es Carolina Arroyave y soy la encargada de Cooperación Internacional en la unidad de
seguridad Alimentaria de la ciudad de la Alcalía de Medellín en Colombia.
Apartir de un acuerdo municipal desde el 2005 (Acuerdo municipal 038 de 2005 - Política
Municipal de Seguridad y Soberanía Alimentaria y Nutricional de Medellín) el cual fue
complementado en el 2013 a través del acuerdo municipal 100 de 2013 por el cual se incorpora
entre otras cosas la autorización al Alcalde para realizar las inversiones que se requieran dentro y
fuera del Municipio en el marco del Sistema de Gestión Alimentaria de Medellín, lo que permitirá
desarrollar acciones con productores agropecuarios fuera de Medellín, implementar plataformas
logísticas para alimentos fuera de la ciudad, fortalecer la función comercial y logística de las plazas
de mercado de Medellín y las organización en redes y centros de compra del comercio de alimentos,
así como la industrialización de la cadena de suministro de alimentos, entre otras acciones.para
garantizar el derecho a la alimentación en condiciones de oferta, precios, calidad e inocuidad
apropiados en el municipio de Medellín, con énfasis en poblaciones vulnerables.
Este año se cumple nuestro plan anterior decenal y por esta razon nos gustaría crear un lazo donde
podamos aportar nuestros conocimentos a traves deesta red y compartir las experriencias con
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prácticas efectivas en el tema de seguridad alimentaria y asi poder recibir de manera colaborativa y
reciproca la experiencia de ustedes con respecto a la definición del período del Plan Municipal de
Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional a 12 años, y su incorporación obligatoria en el Plan de
Desarrollo de los períodos que competa, a partir del año 2016.
Muchas gracias.
4. Molly Anderson, College of the Atlantic, United States of America
1) Why not use "food system" rather than "Agri-food" throughout? You define food systems, but
then don't use that terminology consistently in the concept note. I read a subtle bias toward
productivism in this, which may not be intended. It is vital for transitions to be systemic and not
focused primarily on producing more food.
2) What is the theory of how a transition to sustainable food systems will happen, underlying the
objectives of this program? It isn't clear; and without this, the program may facilitate transitions to
something quite different than intended.
3) I think it would be better to refer to food security and nutrition as goals, rather than "food and
nutrition security". Perhaps there is a good, agreed-upon definition of "food and nutrition
security"; but I don't think this has been resolved in the same way that the definition of "food
security" is agreed.
4) The descriptions of Work Areas are thin and seem to show a superficial understanding of
barriers to a SFS transition. For example, it will take far more than "information" to improve
Extension and "partnerships" to create "actionable knowledge, information and tools for SCP". In
particular, Work Area 1 leaves out public policy. The intention may be to address public policy in
Work Area 2, but it also belongs in Work Area 1.
5) Work Area 2 does not mention the weaknesses of Public Private Partnerships, which have been
well documented and will continue to be highly challenging unless power imbalances between
actors are understood and accommodated.
6) Designing principles to guide the assessment of sustainability, and leverage points to direct
choices and behavior, have much broader applicability than only to market-based approaches such
as eco-labels; yet these are only mentioned in the context of Work Area 3 (on market-based
change).
5. Luis Harol Estrada, Baños Universidad tecnologíca de mineral de la reforma, Mexico
Saludo cordial
Mi nombre es Luis Harol soy estudiante de la Universidad tecnológica de mineral de la reforma
Primero que nada me parece que necesitamos implementar medios de consumo más económicos
para así generar menos hambre por así decirlo.
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6. Carol Levin, University of Washington, United States of America
Hi,
I happen to also be working on this topic, so found it very useful to review your document. It is
great to see this effort and it is a very good start.
I hope you will find my comments useful as you move forward with this important initiative.
All the best,
Carol
Carol Levin, Ph.D.
Feedback form
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Levin%20Feed_back_form_SFS_EN.do
cx
7. Manuel Moya, International Pediatric Association. TAG on Nutrition, Spain
Dear Sir, Dear Madam ,
Please find attached the form on STOCK TRACKING OF ACTIONS FOR SFS.
With my kindest regards
M
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/MMoya.docx
8. Anna Davies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Please find attached input for the consultation:
Take stock of information on initiatives of relevance for the development of the Programme,
particularly to avoid duplication and facilitate synergies and partnerships
Best wishes
Anna
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/ADavies.docx
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9. Selina Juul, Stop Wasting Food movement Denmark (Stop Spild Af Mad), Denmark
It's a great document and a very good start indeed.
However, I miss more concrete data on food waste. At the Stop Wasting Food movement Denmark
(Stop Spild Af Mad) we have gathered roughly all the data available on mostly food waste, please
feel to be inspired:
http://bit.ly/1CmUqfz
10. Global Bioenergy Partnership, Italy
Dear Colleagues,
Kindly find attached our input for your collection of information on initiatives of relevance for the
development of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and
Production Patterns (10YFP). It is related to the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) whose
Secretariat is based here in FAO.
We believe our experience and lessons learned could be extremely useful for the development of
the Programme and are available in case you would wish to meet us in person to exchange further
information and views.
My kindest regards,
Michela
Dr. Maria Michela Morese
Executive Secretary
Global Bioenergy Partnership
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
11. Ramón Guevara, Nicaragua
Attached two files relationed with resilience, vulnerability, food security - EWS and climate change
Climate Resilience and Food Security - A framework for planning and monitoring
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/CREFSCA%20Paper%20June%20201
3%20EN%28FINAL%29.pdf
Proceso de construcción de indicadores de resiliencia a nivel comunitario tomando como base sus
medios de vida, su vinculación con la Seguridad Alimentaria y el Cambio Climático.
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/PROYECTO%20RESILIENCIA%20CLI
MATICA%20Y%20SEGURIDAD%20ALIMENTARIA%20%20%28Escrito%20sobre%20indicadores
%29.pdf
Ramón S. Guevara Flores
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Consultor Independiente
12. Divesh Bhadani, Desta Global, India
Valuing Farmers as Entrepreneurs is Very Important
Who is an entrepreneur?
Oxford Dictionary defines an ‘entrepreneur’ as a person who sets up a business or businesses,
taking on financial risks in the hope of profit. The activity of setting up a business or business is
‘entrepreneurship’.
So, are farmers’ entrepreneurs and farming their business? Going by the definition, Yes, Farmers
are entrepreneurs or Farmpreneurs who see their farms as a means of earning profit. They take
calculated risks, make decisions and have the passion to make their farms more profitable and thus,
grow their business.
What does it take for Farmpreneurs to sustain and grow their business in the ever-changing and
more complex global economy, not to forget, the increasing risk for farming as an enterprise with
the changing climate? Also, the farmpreneurs operate in an environment which is complex and
dynamic comprising of different stakeholders like fellow farmers, agri-input suppliers, traders,
transporters, processors and many others who are entrepreneurs in their own way. Moreover,
modern farming is information-intensive.
The big question is how do farmpreneurs adapt to these changes to excel in their farming business?
What strategies and tools should they use? These are the questions which the farmpreneurs face
today.
So, valuing farmers as entrepreneurs rather than just producers is very important and keeping
them at the centre of any policy or business design of the Public or Private sector can make the
agriculture related projects, programs or missions more impactful and deliver sustainable returns
for the whole society.
13. Bhubaneswor Dhakal, Nepal
Dear Moderator and other members of FSN forum
I am not making contribution on the main issues that you asked here. But I would like to comment
on the FAO and UNEP memorandum on sustainable food system issue including stack taking. I want
to know why UNEP involved in food security program? What is the UNEP global mandate? Has it
accomplished well? Has it effectively addressed food security issues affected by its programmes or
globally given mandate. In my understanding the programmes under UNEP has misleading many
poor people and worsen food security in the world. If the management of the agency need I can
provide enough evidences. If the UNEP management were professionally or ethically serious on
food security and poor people's issues they should do their job first. If any agency does not work
seriously in the areas of responsibility how they provide good service in other areas? I doubt that
the involvement of the UNEP make difference on food security. It might make worse. I expect
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response from the UNEP representative. I would also like to know response from FAO
representative through this forum that why the collaboration with the UNEP is needed.
FSN members, it is your person right and will whether or not contribute in this discussion. But if we
blindly (without constructively thinking about ) participate or support any initiatives that can
encourage bad practices of globally powerful agencies in the world. Your constructive comments or
feedback can often make the agencies sincere on working issue and your contribute benefit poor
people or public.
Thanks.
B. Dhakal
14. Annie Luteijn, Netherlands
For valuable inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhVWNwCRpKg
15. Thomas Bernet, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Switzerland
Dear fsn-moderator,
Please receive here my feedback.
Best
Thomas
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16. Bibhu Santosh Behera Ouat Bhubaneswar, India
Greetings!!!
This is the Small Innovation of me for whole world. Please respect it and think over it.
I am suggesting that for achieving the SDG we have to frame a concrete livelihood plan for our
sustainable consumption and production in food, goods or anything needed to everyone. So the
policies must be compatible with people, planet and for profit. Climate Budget (Green Tax) should
be proposed in every Asian, African, European, Russian country and all over world in order to save
our mother earth and nature from disaster, hazards or any type of future calamities. So, please
introduce Climate Smart Education in every country in each curriculum. This is my research
feelings and contribution to the world as a young Ph.D. research Scholar and activist.
Awake arise aware
Reserve-recycle-re use
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Thanking you all
If you care.....................you can dare
Bhubaneswar
BIBHU SANTOSH BEHERA,OUAT,BHUBANESWAR
CLIMATE SMART ACTIVIST,INDIA
17. Santosh Kumar Mishra, S. N. D. T. Women's University, India
Dear Ms Maria Helena Semedo and Mr Ibrahim Thiaw,
Warm greetings from the S. N. D. T. Women's University (SNDTWU), Mumbai, India
I am submitting herewith my contribution for e-discussion on: Towards the Development of the
Programme on Sustainable Food Systems (SFSP) in the form provided by you.
I hope you will find my inputs useful. I am confident that the FAO and the UNEP will be able to
develop a more effective programme on sustainable food systems (SFSP) in the years to come.
Kindly acknowledge receipt of this email as well as enclosed contribution.
With best regards,
Dr. Santosh Kumar Mishra (Ph. D.),
Technical Assistant,Population Education Resource Centre (PERC),
Department of Continuing and Adult Education and Extension Work,
S. N. D. T. Women's University,
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18. Gian Linard Nicolay, FiBL, Switzerland
Dear colleagues and moderators
Please find attached my suggestions for the important 10 year program on Sustainable Food
Systems, to be launched at Expo Milano 2015. I mainly suggest opening up the sector for larger
segments and sub-systems of society, particularly law, media, education and science.
The concept of food system must also be cleared: it contains local up-to global systems. This
difference has to be made explicit.
Best, Gian Nicolay
(FiBL Switzerland)
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19. Bert Cramer, OSCE Academy Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan
Dear all,
Please see attached document for comments and input on draft concept note.
Sincerely,
Bert
Feedback form:
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20. Dosse Sossouga, Amis des Etrangers au Togo (ADET), Togo
Bonjour tout le monde. Hello, everybody,
Dieu créa le ciel et la terre, les arbres, la biodiversité et l'homme. Il cré des relations entre les
choses crées. Ainsi, la forêt intervient dans le cycle de l'eau qui à son tour arrose le sol pour
l'agriculture pour alimenter l'homme, les animaux et autres.
L'homme , lui créa du feu, de grandes usines pour produire du gaz à éffet de serre qui détruit la
couche d'ozone, ou coupe les arbres pour alimenter le feu qui lui permet de préparer les repas.
Les conséquences de ces comportement humains sont la déforestation et la destruction de la
couche d'ozone qui engendrent le rechauffement chimatique nuisible pour la production agricole,
pour la nuitrition dans le monde. Ainsi, pour une population de 7Milliards de personnes, 805
millions souffre des problèmes de nuitrition et de la faim sur la planet terre selon le président du
conseil économique et sociale des Nations Unies.
Pour corriger ce problème il faut un partenariat multiforme: Nord-Sud, Sud-Sud, Partenariat
publique-privé, implication active de la société civile, les chercheurs, les scientifiques, les
communautés locales, les gouvernements locaux, taxer les usines à production de carbonne. Tout
faire pour réduire à 2°c la température. Adaptation climatique, energie pour tous, modernisation
des moyens de cuisson en Afrique.
Le changement climatique est un frein pour le développement agricole durable: Exemple de
Vunuatu, où presque tout a été détruit même les greniers. Il est mieux de se concentrer sur
l'adaptation climatique, bien sur que celà ne sera pas non plus sans conséquence, mais une fois le
climat stabilisé, l'avenir que nous voulons sera rassurant avec la production et la consommation
agricole satisfaisantes pour l'hummanité.
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21. Fruit Juice CSR Platform, Denmark
Dear Sir/madam,
It is with great interest that we took note of the Sustainable Food Systems Programme.. We would
hereby like to provide information on an initiative for sustainable food systems that we coordinate:
The Fruit Juice CSR Platform. Please find attached the required form filled out for the initiative
We would also like to be informed on any further developments in the Programme. Let us know if
you need any further information.
Kind regards,
Janine Dortmundt
Advisor responsible sourcing
Stocktaking form:
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22. Dosse Sossouga, Amis des Etrangers au Togo (ADET), Togo
Mettre fin à la pauvreté sur toutes ces formes et partout et mettre fin à la faim, assurer la sécurité
alimentaire, améliorer la nutrition et promouvoir le développement agricole durable nous oblige à
prendre de nouvelles dispositions pour répondre aux besoins alimentaires pour les 9 Milliards de
personnes d'ici 2050.
Pour y arriver, nous avons besoin d'une réforme mentale à tous les niveaux pour un changement de
mentalité.
Selon le rapport de l'IPCC, les terres cultivables sont de 60% en Afrique et les 40% sont répartis en
Asie, en Europe, en Australie et aux USA. Or l'agriculture africaine demeure toujours traditionnelle
avec une population toujours galopante. Actuellement Il y a 805 millions de personnes de part le
monde souffrant de la famine selon la déclaration du président de l'ECOSOC en 2015.
Un programme pour lutter contre la faim devient un défi à relever. Et pour répondre aux besoins
alimentaires quantitatives et qualitatives des populations, il est recommandé de privilégier
l'agriculture NAMAs, l'adaptation climatique, énergie, développer les industries de transformation,
éviter le gaspillage alimentaire, promouvoir le transfert de la technologie, des connaissances et du
savoir-faire. Pour ce faire, le gouvernement, la société civile et le secteur privé doivent
impérativement mener des actions inclusives, ne laissant personne de côté, pour le développement
de l'économie verte, de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelles. Un accord programme est signé
être le gouvernement Togolais et l'ONG: ADET à cet effet.
23. Cahyono Agus, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Dear Sir,
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Please be noted, that we would like to participate in the 10YFP-SFSP, FAO UN.
Herewith, I enclosed a formal expression of interest (EoI) and application form.
Thank you very much
Participation form:
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24. Nadia Scialabba, FAO, Italy
Please find attached the form with comments on the draft Concept Note. Well done job.
Cheers,
Nadia
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25. Mark Barthel, WRAP, United Kingdom
Dear All
Please find attached WRAP’s application to join the 10YFP Sustainable Food Systems Programme
MAC.
Please let us know if you require any further information or have any points that you need to clarify
with us.
I have also submitted the attached application to the UNEP 10YFP Secretariat as requested on the
application form.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks and best regards
Mark
Mark BarthelSpecial Advisor – Product Sustainability
WRAP
Participation form:
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rticipation%20in%20SFS%20Programme%20MAC%20%2030%20March%202015%20%28FINAL%29.docx
26. Bruno Kestemont, Head Territory Statistics, Belgium
Hello,
Here are my comments.
Best regards,
Bruno Kestemont
Head Territory Statistics
Statistics Belgium
North Gate III - Bur 6B19
Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 16
1000 Bruxelles
Feedback form:
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27. Roberto Capone, CIHEAM-Bari, Italy
Dear all,
First of all I would like to thank FAO and UNEP for this interesting and significant initiative.
The sustainability of food systems and diets is one of the main research, cooperation and teaching
areas of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies in Bari (CIHEAMBari) in general and its Department of Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Rural Development in
particular.
CIHEAM-Bari and FAO have started since 2010 an ambitious and multifaceted cooperation
programme on food systems sustainability and sustainable diets in the Mediterranean area. The
Mediterranean diet is currently analysed by CIHEAM-Bari and FAO as a case study for the
assessment of the sustainability of dietary patterns in the Mediterranean area.
Please, find attached three documents representing our input to the public consultation:
1. Stock-taking of actions and initiatives for Sustainable Food Systems Programme: We compiled
a form for Qualification and Enhancement of Typical Quality Production of Apulia
(Agriculture & Quality) project with special reference to the activities concerning the
development of guidelines and indicators to assess and certify the sustainability of typical /
traditional quality In Apulia region (south-eastern Italy).
2. Feedback form on short draft Concept Note for the further development of the Programme:
We do believe that the concept note represents a solid and robust document for the further
development of the program activities.
3. Expression of interest of CIHEAM-Bari to participate in the Programme.
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I would like to point out that CIHEAM-Bari is willing to contribute to the development and
implementation of the 10YFP-SFSP serving as a Member of Multi-stakeholder Advisory Committee
(MAC).
I wish you the best success
Kindest regards
Roberto Capone
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Feedback form:
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Participation form:
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28. Bibhu Santosh Behera, Ouat Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Sustainable Development of Indian Agriculture: An Overview
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/sustainable%20agr._0.docx
29. Hellmut von Koerber, fleXinfo, Switzerland
Please find attached the stock taking form for the fleXinfo initiative:
Sincerly
Hellmut von Koerber
fleXible Informations-Systeme Daten-Integration
www.flexinfo.ch
hellmut.koerber@flexinfo.ch
Stocktaking form:
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30. Stephen Ngenchi, Community Partners for Sustainable Development, Cameroon
Dear colleagues,
Please find enclosed the three forms.
Best Regards
Stephen N
Stocktaking form:
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nchi.doc
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31. Gisèle Yasmeen, University of British Columbia, Canada
Dear Colleagues,
Thank you for the excellent concept note. I am a very critical individual and have nothing but praise
for this paper. The comments in the attached document are fairly minor and constructive.
Other documentation and responses will be coming along shortly.
All the best and thanks for inviting me to participate.
Gisèle Yasmeen
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32. E.V.S. Prakasa Rao, Independent Researcher, India
In order to develop sustainable agricultural systems, crop diversification which add to the
livelihoods of small farmers and also help environment need to be designed and implemented in
varied local conditions.
I have worked for more than 30 years in developing such systems while incorporating aromatic
plants in traditional cropping systems, training farmers in value addition and improved
technologies.
I greatly appreciate this initiative. I would like to contribute to these novel efforts by my
consultation, by advisory service.
I attach a few details for your perusal.
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http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/EVSPRaoBrief%20biodata120315.pdf
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http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/vetiver%20paperpdf.pdf
33. Md. Moshfaqur Rahman, Bangladesh
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Moshfaqur%27s%20Feed_back_form
_SFS_EN_2.docx
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Moshfaqur%27s%20Participation_in_
SFS_programme_EN_1.docx
Stocktaking form:
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S_EN_0.docx
34. Subhash Mehta, Devarao Shivaram Trust, India
Here is a brief with links to PDF files on teacher and or student resource material which would
greatly assist FAO & UNEP on developing the programme, the Governments - Central &, State,
National Agriculture Research & Education Systems (NARES), Departments of Education (schools
and colleges) , Dept of Rural Development and such like organisations in creating capacity,
especially in rural women and youth, leading to self sufficiency, at little or no cost, self reliance and
enterprise for producing safe and nutritious food through agriculture.
This resource material is well attuned to the agroecological systems,
at: http://sustainablefoodtrust.org/articles/agroecology-idea-practice-coming-age/,
link
economic, equity, energy, etc., a system which we must design and follow, if we are to be
sustainable in the long term, reducing hunger, malnutrition, poverty and effects of climate change
whilst increasing net income/ purchasing power, if we are to improve livelihood, now and in the
future for the poor rual producer communities.
Successful farmers in each area, teachers, educators, trainers being the prime players in
this endeavor, as they play a pivotal role in the implementation of this programme by motivating
rural women and youth and students to understand, acquire knowledge and look at agriculture as a
viable option for migrating back from urban slums to a life sustainable in the long term.
The books being forwarded would act as a stepping stone for putting the rural women and youth to
work gainfully, ensuring access to own requirements of nutritious food and cash, thus reducing
hunger, malnutrition, effects of climate change and poverty whilst increasing net incomes/
purchasing power, improving rural livelihood, contribution to economic development/ growth and
ensuring sustainability in the long term:
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Links and Legends:
I. Our Land Our Life by Nyla Coelho,
A book on a low cost low risk agro ecological education system for schools and colleges, especially
for rural areas/ communities in India. It offers an educational system with specific emphasis on low
cost low risk climate friendly agriculture/ farming systems, applicable to the soil and agro climatic
conditions of each area. It’s design provides a hands on approach to learning/ research, both
academic and on farm, season after season, if agriculture is to substantially contribute to the
country's economic development and growth, thus creating employment opportunities for the rural
youth, ensuring sustainability in the long term. The book is the outcome of research based on inputs
from successful farmers/ pioneers following agro ecological systems, educators, researchers and
academicians from across the country.
Download
PDF Download
PDF http://www.peakoilindia.org/wpcontent/uploads/2013/10/Our-Land-Our-Life_NC_2012.pdf
II. Links to workbooks prepared by The Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi, with the same title as the above
book are also provided below. These work books are teaching manuals for school and college
teachers; also double as student workbooks that can be used by them for interacting with parents/
family/ communities, adapting to their soil and agro climatic conditions, thus ensuring own access
to requirement of nutritious food and cash needs. I am sure you will find this excellent resource
book most useful, if we are to ensure reversal of migration to cities:
http://www.ueec.org.in/in_english.htm
Our Land, Our Life, 6-8 class workbooks in English currently running in Government Schools
of Uttarakhand
6th class: 7th class: 8th class:
class 6
Class 7
Class 8
Our Land, Our Life, 6-8 class workbooks in English VI to X class should
6th Class , 7th Class , 8th Class , 9th Class , 10th Class
III. Tending a Schoolyard Garden by Nyla Coelho
Tending a Schoolyard Garden is a teacher's manual/ handbook that facilitates teachers to motivate
and create interest in students in the soil, nature, leaves, flowers, plants, animal husbandry,
fisheries, etc., all of which creates livelihood opportunities, provides us with food, nutrition and
thus good health, at little or no cost while contributing hugely to economic development and
growth, as it reduces dependence on subsidies, effects of climate change. When in school and
college in the city, one looked forward to the physical training class, sports, scouting excursions,
etc., as a break from classroom academics. This manual with its hands on approach to growing
greens, vegetables, fruits in the school garden, raising of poultry and dairy animals for eggs, milk,
etc. for mid day meals and or for sale to local communities provides a practical and enjoyable
approach to agriculture for rural (and urban) students. It is written in an easy to follow style with
step-by-step instructions and plenty of illustrations. It offers teachers/ students the necessary
wherewithal as well as the confidence that this system is low cost low risk and thus doable and
hence being sustainable in the long term. This book is the outcome of field tests of the Our Land Our
Life curriculum (see above). The book comes with a DVD containing over 130 carefully selected
resource material.
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For hard copies of Our
to: childrenstalim@gmail.com
Land
Our
Life and Tending
a
Schoolyard
Garden, write
Download PDF: http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/schoolyard-nyla.pdf
Also attached is a doc - Rodale INst white paper Org Agriculture and Climate Change_2014 04
See the attachment:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Rodale%20INst%20white%20paper
%20Org%20Agriculture%20and%20Climate%20Change_2014%2004%2018%20%281%29.pdf
See the attachment:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Our%20Land%20Our%20Life_NC_20
12_0.pdf
See the attachment:
Tending a Schoolyard Garden_Nyla Coelho_aug 2014 (1).pdf
35. Subhash Mehta, Devarao Shivaram Trust, India
Prof Amar Nayak’s paper, abstract and introduction as trailed below, full paper attached, focuses on
‘Achieving sustainable development for food, nutrition and livelihood security through low cost low
risk agriculture and using the producer company/ org (PC) intervention but staffed with
professionals’. The paper highlights sustainable approaches to agriculture, ensuring access to food,
nutrition and cash for producer communities through agriculture and also meeting the increasing
nutritious food needs of the growing population. Value addition for increase shelf life of farm
produce to reduce post harvest losses and waste, also trade in the vicinity and opportunities,
without compromising the economic, environmental and social bases of the rural poor producer
communities. The paper identifies barriers to change, including in present institutions,
organizations, policies and governance, and potential options to overcome them and covers the
enabling environment necessary for transition to agriculture systems contributing to economic
development and growth but sustainable in the long term.
Asymmetries in Organizations, Institutions and Policy Signals in the context of Sustainable
Governance in India
Amar KJR Nayak[1]
Abstract:
This article focuses on the present asymmetries in community organizational design, institutional
architecture of these organizations and signaling effect of multiple development policies and
schemes of the government and consequences of these asymmetries on effectiveness of programme
delivery and overall sustainability of rural producer communities in the Indian context.
While these three aspects of community organizational design, their institutional architecture and
policy signals are the critical pillars of sustainable local governance, the article based on eight years
of an action research and empirical studies across India, argues that at present they are neither
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symmetric within nor symmetric across each other. The present institutional architecture of the
government and community organizations at the last mile are serving as mere agents to deliver
various government schemes with people as mere recipients. Further, deployment of multiple
institutions at the community level to deliver these schemes tends to increase asymmetries in
information in the system leading to opportunistic behavior among both the agents and the
beneficiaries. In other words, the current design, architecture and mechanism of public service
delivery inadvertently weaken the coordination processes of rural community producer
organization/ companys that are crucial for governance in India and long term sustainability of
rural producer communities.
Key Phrases
Organizational design, institutional architecture, policy signals, coordination failure, local
governance, long term sustainability of rural producer communities
Asymmetries in Organizations, Institutions and Policy Signals in the context of Governance
in India for Long Term Sustainability
Introduction:
There has been increasing appreciation among the policy makers and development professionals in
India that demand side institutions viz., people’s organization/ companys and institutions at the
producer community level are critical for efficient and effective delivery of public services for an
equitable society. That better local governance is the foundation to better governance at higher
levels of the society is very well understood as has been reflected in the 73rd and 74th Amendment
of the Indian constitution.
In the above light, this article discusses the issues of community organizational design, their
institutional architecture and the nature of signals that multiple development policies implemented
through multiple institutions of the government have on people and their community
organizations. Following the exposition of the issues at the heart of local governance, the article
proposes some thoughts on how to redesign producer community organization/ companys, their
institutional architecture and development policy strategy that can minimize information
asymmetry, opportunistic behavior by community members, especially the elite and reduce
transaction costs for sustainable governance in the long term at the grass root level viz. the Gram
Panchayat.
First, the article delves on the context of smallholder farmers/producers, in terms of their
asymmetric disadvantages in resource base, capability base and traditional institutional base in
relation to those in the current market economic system. It highlights how this context has shaped
the various community organization based development interventions of the government over the
last six decades. Second, based on the empirical evidences, it analyses the deficiencies in the supply
side institutional and organizational arrangements of the governments and the significance of
developing demand side institutional architecture of the producer community organizations.
Third, based on the empirical observations, it highlights the conceptual gaps and theoretical
challenges in guiding state policy on optimal design of community organizations and optimal
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boundary limits of institutional architecture of these organization for better local
governance. Fourth, it discusses the dysfunctional signaling effect of development schemes and
programmes implemented by multiple agencies of the government on the efficacy of coordination
processes in community organizations arising out of high information asymmetries in the present
system. Fifth, the article discusses optimal design of rural producer community organization/
company and optimal institutional architecture for these community organizations for the long
term sustainability sustainability of their members.
1. The Context
The overall context of a small producer or a smallholder farmer in a rural agricultural setting is well
understood. The current globally accepted description of producer includes not only small farmers
engaged in agriculture but also hunters, gatherers, fishing folk, artisan, crafts persons, tenants, etc.
S/he could be characterized as someone who holds or owns very little private property in terms of
resources/asset/land with little liquid capital. S/he engages in large number of production
activities in low volumes and little product specialization. S/he has bare formal education, has
limited access to information, knowledge and adopts rudimentary methods and techniques of
production and value addition (processing). S/he has little accesses to good basic infrastructure on
health, education, water, electricity, and roads.
While the internal conditions of small famer or landless smallholder producers, who form over 70%
of total producers, is rather weak and vulnerable, the external conditions are highly unfavorable for
their existence. The agricultural input market is better organized and prices of inputs have been
rising. The players in the product market are better endowed with information, resources, capital
and are better organized to bargain hard with small farmers/producer communities.
Further, at the village level, sahukars/money lenders/local traders have indeed been on an
advantageous position to exploit the small producers. It is indicative of the fact that while prices of
agricultural products have multiplied several times in recent years, farm gate prices that the
farmers get have hardly increased over these years. In the light of the modern market economic
system, the small farmer and the landless small producer is indeed in a highly asymmetric
disadvantageous position.
In addition, the uncertainty in weather and climate, especially in rainfall leads to incorrect
assessment on timing of sowing by small farmers; makes the situation challenging and highly risky.
Further, poor health, lack of knowledge/ primary education in the rural areas and reducing, net
incomes from agricultural activities has lead to out-migration of people from rural agricultural
communities. Not only has the overall climate of liberalization, privatization, and globalization
exposed small agricultural producers to global commodity markets and industrial economic
system, the culture of access to own requirement of nutritious food through agriculture has been
adversely affected especially with respect to agricultural production of scale. Even in the best
agricultural districts, nearly 30% of farmers are making net losses and another 20% are barely
making profits from their agricultural activities (Nayak 2013d). While most farmer parents wish
that their children stay in their villages; most of their children instead are forced to out migrate
from their villages in search of alternate livelihood.
2. Institutional Architecture of the Government
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During the last sixty years, the central government and the state governments have experimented
and tried with various institutional and organizational arrangements to improve the situation of
smallholder farmers and producers as well as the rural agricultural communities. As against the
Tata-Birla Plan of industrialization, 1944, that had only 10% provision for the agricultural sector
(Nayak 2011), the Government of India since 1947 have been allocating significant budgets
towards agriculture and rural development. The central government and the state governments
have created constitutional provisions in terms of institutional arrangement and organizational
arrangements to resolve the various asymmetries of farmers in general and smallholder producer
communities in particular.
The formal cooperative activities began with the enactment of Cooperative Credit Societies Act,
1904, later it was revised in 1912. Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies were formed from
around this period. The Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Act 1956 and the formation of
organization like National Agricultural Cooperative Agricultural Marketing Federation in 1958
were some of the earliest initiatives. Similarly, the state governments have also formed state level
departments, independent organizations and institutions to resolve these issues of small farmers.
Subsequently, the government initiated several provisions and institutions viz., Integrated Rural
Development Programme (1978), NABARD (1982), PRI through 73rd Amendment of the Indian
Constitution, Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yogana (1999), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act (2005), Right to Information Act (2005), and National Rural Livelihood
Mission (2010). Specifically in the area of marketing, Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee
was formed in 1956. Accordingly, the state governments created several provisions like formation
of State Agricultural Marketing Boards, Regulated Market Committees, Check Gates, etc. In addition
several institutions like the Farmers’ Commission, expert committees on rural credit, cooperatives,
etc have been formed to assess and improve the well being of small producers in rural agricultural
communities in India.
Not only has the government tried to create institutional arrangement and organizations, it has also
been pumping a lot of resources through these institutions and organizations for improving the
situation of small farmers/producers and rural agricultural communities. One may look at the
number of development schemes and programmes that are directed at the district and Gram
Panchayat level to appreciate this point.
The annual budgetary provision of only the Ministry of Rural Development is over INR 100,000
crores. As per the NRLM guidelines, the provision per family below the poverty line is INR 100,000
per year. Provision for various types of support viz., credit support, marketing support, livelihood
support, natural resource management, watershed development, rural infrastructure, primary
health, primary educations, basic infrastructure, etc have been created.
However, the existing institutions and organizations have not fared well in terms of delivery of
these provisions to the resource poor and smallholder producer communities. The capacity to
absorb, internalize and create long term assets and value by people and community at the grass
root level from these public investments have been far from expectations. Indeed, there seems to be
a weak link between the public investment and long term impact on well being of the people and
the community.
To improvise its delivery capacity, the governments have also increasingly used the services of Non
Government Organizations (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs). Thousands of NGOs and
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CSOs have mushroomed in this process. The social impact of the public investment still remained
below par. Additionally, the organizational arrangement with NGOs often lead to capacity building
of the NGOs more than the capacity building of the communities. Once the NGOs stop getting funds
from a project, the initiatives undertaken in a community also ceases and ironically all the
investment made in the NGOs also moves away from the community.
In recent years, governments have been collaborating with industrial organizations especially the
large private corporations for improving delivery efficiency of public services. Individual farmers
and small producer groups like SHG, CIG, FPO, small producer cooperatives, etc are being linked to
large private corporations in the hope to improve the well being of small farmers/producers. The
institutional arrangement in some states seems to be gradually moving from a welfare state
mechanism to market mechanism under the broader framework of inclusive capitalism. Contract
Farming, Public Private Partnerships, Crop Insurance, Agri-business model as per the traditional
industrial organizational design, etc., are some examples of the orientation and attempts made by
both central and state governments. In recent years, large venture capitalists and large
corporations have been seeking support from the governments to undertake grass root level
community development as part of their corporate social entrepreneurship.
The government and policy advisers little realize that the basic grain of a traditional industrial
organizational design is totally different from that of community organizations at the grass root
level. While the former is built on the paradigm of competition, the later is built on
cooperation. The position of design variables and the purposes of these two organizational types
are so far apart that in the long run, large industrial enterprises will gain at the cost of community
organizations in a competitive market economic system (Nayak 2010, 2014a).
In the above milieu of development approaches and challenges, the bright ray of hope to improve
the well being of small producer communities including the psychological-social-economically
weak communities appears to be the provision of National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) 2010
of the Government of India. The emphasis on building local institutional platforms of the poor and
converging all the resources to build and strengthen this local institution is indeed a wise and
sustainable way forward for the well being of the poor communities. There are however several
questions that need to be answered for the new mission to make a sustainable impact and in the
long term.
How will the multiple local institutions interact with each other? Will there be duplication of
resources & efforts because of multiple people’s institutions? What will be the cost of operating
each of these institutions? Will each of these institutions be optimally designed for operational
efficiency? Will the challenges of capacity building, marketing and value addition of the small
producers be handled through these institutions? What will be the steps & sequences of
implementation? Is it designed for sufficient local resource persons for successful implementation?
How long will it take to implement and exit? What is the overall strategy? What will be the total cost
of implementation at the GP level? Will these institutions for livelihood cater to other needs of the
community viz., health, education, basic infrastructure, etc? Although individual organizations are
attempting to resolve some of these questions as they work in the complex setting of Indian rural
communities; these questions still remain largely unanswered by NRLM.
The latest attempt of the Government has been to promote Farmer Producer Organizations as
Producer Companies as per section IXA of the companies Act 1956. Ministry of Finance and
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Ministry of Agriculture through NABARD have made a provision to promote 2000 farmer producer
companies in the next two years (2014-16). While the Act came into being in 2002, development
agencies have been struggling to stabilize the few hundred producer companies that have already
been set up during the last twelve years.
Across the board, the institutions of the government for implementing these programmes are
highly hierarchical, bureaucratic, centralized and top heavy with high transaction costs. While the
supply side institution of the government seems to be well defined and overwhelming, the demand
side institutions viz., people’s organizations or community organizations have not been well
conceived. Figure 1-2 are sample institutional architecture of the Odisha Livelihood Mission and
Karnataka Watershed Development.
[1] Professor of Management & Centre Director of National Centre for Sustainable Community
Systems,
LBS
National
Academy
of
Administration,
Mussoorie,
India.
Email:amar.nayak@nic.in, amar@ximb.ac.in
I thank my colleagues and Officers Trainees in LBSNAA and colleagues in XIMB for their valuable
feedback and suggestions during the various discussions leading to development of this article.
36. Andrew Jones, University of Michigan, USA
Hello,
Please find attached a description of the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Systems
Initiative (SFSI). As the FAO and partner organizations continue to development their Programme
on Sustainable Food Systems, we hope this information will be useful. We are quite interested in
exploring collaborations and partnerships in the future based around these synergistic initiatives.
Please do reach out at any time.
All the very best,
Andrew
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37. Johannes Kahl, Food Quality and Health Research Association (FQH), Germany
Dear FSN Forum moderators,
Here come our documents for the online consultation FAO/UNEPs SFSP.
Best regards,
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38. Marija Bodroža-Solarov, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please find attached documents regarding our participation in the SFS program of FAO/UNEP. As a
member of FQH we are supporting program 10YFP-SFSP.
Kind regards,
Marija Bodroža-Solarov
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39. Unati Speirs, Department of Trade and Industry, South Africa
Good day
On behalf of Ms Unati Speirs
Attached is for your attention. [Feedback forms attached below]
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Cynthia
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40. Florence Egal, Food Security and Nutrition expert, Italy
Thanks for providing us with an opportunity for contributing to the formulation of the 10YFP.
1/ I am presently part of a technical team supporting the Municipality of Milano engaged in the
development of urban food policy pacts (see http://www.cibomilano.org/food-policy-pact/). It is
clear to us that in an increasingly urbanised world, cities play a major role in their respective
territories and should play a lead role in, and be accountable for, sustainable local development.
This initiative which involves to date 36 cities in both the global North and the global South is in my
view very relevant to the formulation of the 10YFP. Please find attached the stock taking form (in
French, sorry I realized afterwards there was another version).
2/ You may want to consider bringing out more explicitly the need (additional objective or
rewording of objective 3) to gain a better understanding of traditional food systems in
representative ecosystems and related indigenous practices with a view to generate practice-based
evidence, contribute to peer learning at local level, feed into relevant policies and assess the impact
(ensure accountability) of agricultural programmes and investment.
3/ You may be interested to explore the possibility of engaging explicitly the City-Region Food
systems platform http://www.cityregionfoodsystems.org in the Multi-stakeholder Advisory
Committee (MAC). let me know if I can help.
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41. Johannes Kahl, Food Quality and Health Research Association (FQH), Germany
Dear FSN Forum moderators,
Please find enclosed the stocktakig form on our second initiative: OFSP is the organic food system
program, which we propose as a new work area.
Best regards,
Johannes Kahl
On behalf of:
Food Quality and Health Research Association (FQH)
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42. Raymond Kofi Saky, agronomist, Ghana
Please find attached my feedback form for the project SUSTAINABLE "FOOD SYSTEMS
PROGRAMME OF THE 10-YEAR FRAMEWORK OF PROGRAMMES ON SUSTAINABLE
CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION (10YFP)". Thank you.
Regards,
Raymond Sakyi
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43. Subhash Mehta, Devarao Shivaram Trust, India
Modern low cost low risk, producer oriented economies of scope agro ecological programmes,
developed for meeting the needs of the producers in each area, can ensure producer communities'
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access to nutritious food, at little or no cost, also feed the world's increasing population, not the
high cost high risk market oriented economies of scale conventional mono crop agricultural
methods
Governments must restructure their high cost high risk conventional agriculture systems, shift
subsidies and research funding from market oriented agro-industrial monoculture to meeting the
needs of smallholder producer oriented economies of scope, following ‘agro-ecological systems’,
according to the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, her talk trailed below, coincides with a
new agro-ecology initiative within the UN’s Food and Agriculture Org (FAO):
Green revolution conventional industrial agricultural methods can no longer feed the world, its
impact on the environmental and ecological crises linked to land, water and resource availability
and access to nutritious food by over 50% of the world’s population.
The stark warning comes from the new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food,
Prof Hilal Elver, in her first public speech since being appointed in June last year.
“Food production policies which do not address the root causes of world hunger, malnutrition,
health and poverty would be bound to fail”, she told a packed audience in Amsterdam.
One billion people globally are hungry, she declared, before calling on governments to support a
transition to “agricultural democracy” which would empower rural smallholder producer
communities.
Agriculture needs a new direction: follow agro-ecology of each area:
“The 2009 global food crisis signalled the need for a turning point in the global food system”, she
said at the event hosted by the Transnational Institute (TNI), a leading international think tank.
Modern green revolution conventional agriculture system of the 1950s, is more resource
intensive, very fossil fuel dependent, using fertilisers and toxic pesticides based on massive
production and mono-culture (high cost high risk). This policy has to change if the agrarian crisis is
to be reversed.
“We are already facing a range of challenges. Resource scarcity, increasing population, decreasing
land availability and accessibility, emerging water scarcity, and soil degradation require us to rethink how best to use our resources for future generations.”
The UN official said that new scientific research increasingly shows how ‘agro-ecology’ offers far
more environmentally sustainable methods that can still meet the rapidly growing demand for
food:
“Agro-ecology is a traditional way of using farming methods that are less resource oriented, and
which work in harmony with society and nature.
Small farmers are the key to feeding the world
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‘There is a geographical and distributional imbalance in who is consuming and producing. Global
agricultural policy needs to adjust. In the crowded and hot world of tomorrow, the challenge of how
to protect the vulnerable is heightened”, Hilal Elver continued.
Traditional farming methods entails recognising women’s role in food production It also means
recognising small farmers, who are also the most vulnerable, and the most hungry.
Elver speaks not just with the authority of her UN role, but as a respected academic. She is research
professor and co-director at the Project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy
in the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Present industrial agriculture grabs 80% of subsidies and 90% of research funds
Hinting at the future direction of her research and policy recommendations, she criticised the vast
subsidies going to large mono-culture agribusiness companies. Currently, in the European Union
about 80% of subsidies and 90% of research funding go to support conventional industrial
agriculture.
“Empirical and scientific evidence shows that small farmers feed the world. According to the UN
Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO), 70% of food we consume globally comes from small
farmers”, said Prof Elver.
“If these trends continue, by 2050, 75% of the entire human population will live in urban areas. We
must reverse these trends by providing new possibilities and incentives to small farmers, especially
for young people in rural areas.”
But Marcel Beukeboom, a Dutch civil servant specialising in food and nutrition at the Ministry of
Trade & Development who spoke after Elver, dissented from Elver’s emphasis on small farms:
“While I agree that we must do more to empower small farmers, the fact is that the big monoculture farms are simply not going to disappear. We have to therefore find ways to make the
practices of industrial agribusiness more effective, and this means working in partnership with the
private sector, small and large.”
A UN initiative on agro-ecology?
The new UN food rapporteur’s debut speech coincided with a landmark two-day International
Symposium on Agroecology for Food and Nutrition Security in Rome, hosted by the FAO. Over 50
experts participated in the symposium, including scientists, the private sector, government officials,
and civil society leaders.
A letter to the FAO signed by nearly 70 international food scientists congratulated the UN agency
for convening the agro-ecology symposium and called for a “UN system-wide initiative on agroecology as the central strategy for addressing climate change and building resilience in the face of
water crises.”
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More than just a science — a social movement!
A signatory to the letter, Mindi Schneider, assistant professor of Agrarian, Food and Environmental
Studies at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, said: “Agro-ecology is more than just a
science, it’s also a social movement for justice that recognises and respects the right of communities
of farmers to decide what they grow and how they grow it.”
“Generally, nobody talks about agro-ecology, because it’s too political. The simple fact that the FAO
is calling a major international gathering to discuss agro-ecology is therefore a very significant
milestone.”
Posted September 26, 2014
44. Carola Strassner, Muenster University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Dear SFSP Team
Thank you very much for the opportunity to participate in an open public consultation for the
programme.
Attached please find two documents concerning our feedback and participation. As a member of
FQH we support the suggested new work area and have included additional comments on the draft
concept note.
Kind regards
Prof. Dr. Carola Strassner, MBA
Sustainable Food Systems | Nutrition Ecology
Dept. of Home Economics, Nutritional Science and Facility Management
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45. Jostein Hertwig, BERAS International, Sweden
To United Nations Program Moderators,
Thank you for inviting contributions to United Nations Sustainable Food Systems Programme of the
10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production (10YFP).
Please find enclosed from our organization duly completed:
Feedback Form
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Opportunity to participate in the 10YP-SFSP
We are looking forward to participate in this work, to learn and develop together with other
initiatives in the framework of the UN 10YFP.
Best regards
Jostein Hertwig
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46. Flavio Paoletti, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CRA) / Research
Centre on Food and Nutrition (CRA-NUT), Italy
Dear moderators,
Please find in attachment our documents for the online consultation FAO/UNEPs SFSP.
Best regards,
Flavio Paoletti
On behalf of:
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CRA) / Research Centre on Food and Nutrition
(CRA-NUT)
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47. Ewa Rembiałkowska, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
Dear Moderator,
please find attached my feedback form.
sincerely, prof. dr hab. Ewa Rembiałkowska
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48. Geoff Tansey, United Kingdom
Hi,
Please find attached a two responses - one sharing a resource (which might be able to be a partner,
I’m not sure), the other my comments on the draft.
Please confirm receipt and do let me know if you have any queries,
Cheers,
Geoff
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49. Nico van Belzen, International Dairy Federation, Netherlands
Dear Madam/Sir,
Please find attached the 10YFP-SFSP form on behalf of IDF.
Thank you, best regards,
Nico van Belzen
Nico van Belzen, PhD
Director General
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International Dairy Federation
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50. Susanne Bügel, Institut for Idræt og Ernæring, Denmark
Dear Ms Maria Helena Semedo and Mr Ibrahim Thiaw
I hereby mail my feedback form and partner form regarding “Towards the Development of the
Programme on Sustainable Food Systems (SFSP)”
Yours sincerely
Susanne Bügel
Professor mso
Institut for Idræt og Ernæring
Københavns Universitet
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51. Angelika Ploeger, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences Kassel University,
Germany
Dear Madam/Sir,
enclosed you may find our application as University of Kassel, Faculty of Organic Agricultural
Sciences to be a partner in the FQH consortium within your Program of sustainable food and
nutrition. I would like to raise your attention that our Faculty will start a new European Master
Program "Sustainable Food Systems" as a joined degree between 6 Universities in 5 EU- countries.
Sincerely
Prof. Dr. Angelika Ploeger
Study Dean
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37213 Witzenhausen /Germany
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52. Liza Oates, RMIT University, Australia
Please find attached documents for participation in the SFS program.
Please let me know if you require any further information.
Kind regards,
Dr Liza Oates
Course co-ordinator
(Wellness Practices & Perspectives; Food as Medicine)
Postgraduate Wellness Program (online)
www.rmit.edu.au/wellness
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Ph) +61 412 310 390
liza.oates@rmit.edu.au
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53. Lal Manavado, Norway
In this note, I shall try to outline the conceptual framework needed to establish a sustainable,
appropriately integrated global food system. It will attempt to sketch its diverse component
systems, which in turn may be revised, or its new components may emerge when required. I hope
this framework will be of some use in developing an integrated global food system.
The purpose of such a system is to enable the world’s population to have a reliable access to an
adequate quantity of affordable food, the constituents of which are governed by the culinary
traditions and the nutritional needs of the individual concerned.
I think this definition of its purpose is holistic and inclusive, for it takes into account the diversity of
world’s culinary traditions, and the differences in individual needs not only with respect to the
personal, but also the climatic and geographical factors that influence how one may meet one’s
nutritional needs.
Method:
A holistic approach to the problem of establishing this system, has two aspects. First, it requires
ensuring the sustainability and the adequacy of the already existing food systems and the emerging
ones, and then integrating them into a unified whole insofar as it is appropriate to do so. This
seems to be the sole means of ensuring its sustainability as well as its robustness, which depends
on itsflexibility.
Elements of a Food System:
Before we consider how to achieve their sustainability and integration, it is necessary to distinguish
between three logically distinct types of constituents of any food system, and the generic changes
they may justifiably undergo.
The first type of system represents the means of obtaining animals, plants, or their productions. I
will call it a primary system. Eg: production of fruits, vegetables, milk and eggs.
The secondary systems are concerned with converting some output of primary systems into some
consumable. They may manifest themselves as simple systems like cottage industries, village
butchers, or as large food processing installations. It is important to note a system becomes
secondary not because of its technical complexity, but because it is concerned with turning
potential food items into consumable ones through some process, which may be very simple or
complicated.
The third type of system is concerned with making food output from the primary system available
to the secondary system, and to make their outputs accessible to the consumers. This requires
appropriate storage, communication, transportation and distribution outlets. These components
constitute what I will term an adjunctive system. Its components are often shared by other
unrelated systems.
Now, the adequate functioning of those three main systems depends on the adequacy of their own
component systems. I have already mentioned that the components of adjunctive system may be
components of the other two. For instance, storage of seeds and fertiliser, and market gardener
carrying his produce to a stall illustrate this. In traditional terminology, it is a part of infrastructure.
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Meanwhile, it is possible to identify several other sub-systems of the three above, which are
essential for their adequate performance. The primary system requires the following sub-systems,
whose adequacy is a necessary condition for its existence and performance.
I will call the first that which guarantees a person his tenure of production medium, which may be a
piece of land or a body of water. It guarantees person a legal right to appropriately exploit a
production medium in a way that would benefit him adequately. High rent and mortgage preclude
this guarantee. Hence, one requires a legal system favourable to those who operate the primary
system.
Next in importance is knowing how best to utilise a given production medium in an
environmentally sustainable fashion. Only in a few areas is this a part of traditional knowledge.
Hence, it is crucial to establish the requisite educational system appropriate to the area concerned.
I will call the third component the complex of material procurement systems. Depending on the
degree of agricultural mechanisation and climatic conditions, it may be simple or sophisticated. It
may contain any one or more of the following components.
They are the systems to acquire seed cultivars, fertiliser, water, mechanical or animal assistance for
production, and energy needed by the sub-systems in use. Meeting this energy need may range
from the provision of feed to working animals, to fossile fuel or electricity for farm machinery, etc.
It will be noted that each sub-system above consists of its own component systems. For instance,
the water supply may require some components of the adjunctive system, viz., storage and
transport via irrigation channels, etc. So, it would be reasonable to postulate that the components of
the adjunctive system occur recursively throughout the primary system, irrespective of the degree
of its sophistication.
Let us now look at the constituents of the secondary system. It requires a set of operators with the
knowledge and skill to convert one or more products of the primary system into a household food
item, appropriate material means required for this conversion, and the relevant components of the
adjunctive system.
This knowledge and skill operators must possess, should emphasise the importance of their actions
not compromising the integrity of their environment. This calls for an appropriate education and
training system. However, one ought to remember the training involved here can range from
knowing how to gut and fillet a fish for a customer to running a giant food processing plant.
As for the material means needed to convert potential food into marketable ones, these may vary
widely. For instance, they may represent a filleting knife of a fish monger to a complex installation.
However, their generic function is identical. What is important here, is that their use does not entail
waste and environmental degradation.
I have so far avoided a system that embraces our three main systems as well as many other fields,
viz., scientific research and its practical application. Its proper use will be crucial to the
sustainability of a global food system, for unless research and its application are not strictly guided
by the constraints my definition of a global food system imposes on them, as well as the revisions I
shall next propose to the economic system, a sustainable global food system will become an
untenable notion.
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For better or for worse, establishment and operation of the primary, secondary and adjunctive
systems have been subordinated to economic system, except in the case of subsistence farming
which is becoming very rare. However irrespective of its political colouring, the prime mover of an
economic system is the possibility it offers one to acquire wealth or power, or both.
At present, there is no legal limit to the amount of wealth one may gain by engaging in economic
activities. This is true in food production, right from the level of speculation in commodity futures
to the sale of processed food. The profit seeking in food industry has created an artificial demand
for ‘convenience food’ through advertising aimed at mind management across boarders.
The undesirable effects of this are fourfold. First, it depreciates the culinary traditions of an area,
which are based on its geographic and climatic conditions, as well as the nutritional needs of its
inhabitants, and are the results of centuries of experience. As a result, there will be no incentive to
grow or raise what is best suited to a given area.
Secondly, introduction of advertised food from outside sources may be unsuitable to meet the
nutritional needs of a given area. Thus, consumption of such may lead to deficiency diseases or
obesity and it concomitants. Moreover, it may induce children to acquire unhealthy eating habits.
Thirdly, it may turn local agriculture so unprofitable resulting in an increased migration of
unskilled labour to urban centres. Finally, abandoned and existing small farms may be acquired by
agro-industry to produce non-traditional profitable food items in a manner that threatens our
fragile environment.
Now, it is time for us to take into account the the state of environment for the sustainability of
agriculture. It is axiomatic that the possibility of life on earth depends on two logically inseperable
equilibria, vis., the equilibrium between the living and the finite mineral resources they require to
live, and the equilibrium among the living species.
The equilibrium among the living species depends on their diversity and the the balance among
their populations. While we already have depleted many previously fertile areas of those mineral
resources, over exploitation is making growing inroads into bio-diversity and into the population
balance among species.
Among its consequences, the critical ones seems to be erosion of top soil, loss of permeability of the
soil leading to low level of ground water, silting up of streams and bodies of water, disturbances
annual rain patterns, higher local temperatures, unseasonable winds, etc. All of these will have an
adverse effect on the primary system, whose rectification in an environmentally sustainable way
requires wise and enforceable laws, comprehensive reforestation,
rain harvesting and
underground storage, holistic education, etc.
Thus, it is clear that unless we have in place appropriate research into how to make the primary,
secondary and the adjunctive systems environmentally sustainable and less resource consuming,
and ensure the application of the know-how so gained, revise the current motive that drives
modern economy, and take demonstrably effective steps to regenerate and preserve our common
habitat, we can but make cosmetic progress.
I shall not describe all the necessary changes we need here except to underline that I do not
advocate work to increasing yields by genetic modification as an option, nor yet any work that
results in any reduction in the bio-diversity among food crops and domestic animals. I would rather
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plead for its increase, principally by resurrecting the previously cultivated varieties of plants, and
by reintroduction of traditional breeds wherever it is appropriate.
I think some legal restrictions must be imposed on economic activities concerned with every food
system for obvious ethical reasons. Of course, lack of access to food has health and security
implications, which are too obvious to describe. It would be very timely to investigate the effect of
large secondary systems on the well-being of the producers of raw materials and consumers, and
the extent of potential food wastage and environmental degradation.
Traditional research has been solely concerned with increasing the yield, resistence to pests, and
the cosmetic features of food items like colour, size, etc. Instead, it is time that we concentrated on
reintroducing bio-diversity to agriculture, which embodies centuries of practical experience with
respect to the suitability of what is raised in an area to its geography and climate, nutritional needs
of the people, endemic pests, fluctuations in weather, etc. It is crucial to remember that the ‘new
and improved’ often entail a greater financial outlay, where it is a major problem.
It is curious that inspite of many calls for energy efficiency, no noticeable action has been taken to
do the obvious, viz., reintroduction of bulk transporters having low energy requirements to service
the primary and secondary systems described above. .
I propose re-opoening of the xtensive canal systems in UK and Europe, and the use of modern and
improved barges for this purpose. This may be applicable to other areas of the world, and surely,
there are several river systems one may utilise for cheap and energy efficient bulk transport of nonperishable items. UK might now renounce Beeching’s folly, and take the initiative to promote intercontinental railway transport as one of the cheapest and environmentally benign ways of doing so.
Another area of meaningful research is appropriate storage. Here too, one may learn what is
suitable from some traditional practices, while developing better methods where it is needed. Food
wastage in storage has been a significant cause of hunger in many areas of the world. I shall not
discussed the waste of prepared food here, even though it depletes what food is available to the
consumers at home or elsewhere.
At this point, it is imperative to understand that even if we succeed in perfecting the primary,
secondary and the adjunctive systems of a food system, its impact on the hungry millions would
remain peripheral unless we restructure the current economic practice. Simply put, as it is today,
it cannot meet the demand for food by those who can ill afford the asking price of food. Examples of
food dumping to keep up prices are too well known.
Moreover, the economic practice within the food sector is hardly justifiable by any standard, for
the operators of secondary and adjunctive systems derive a disproportionately excessive benefit
from their activities than those who run the primary system and the end users of food. This is
patently unfair.
It is difficult to see how one could justify currently legal and lucrative activities like speculation in
commodity futures, stockpiling and release of food according to price, creating conditions that turn
small farming unprofitable, compelling farmers to switch over to cash crops, aggressive and
insidious marketing of unhealthy food, etc. These and many other ills can be justifiably laid at the
door of modern economy.
In order to bring about changes in the economic system supportive of food production owing to its
importance for all, it is essential to impose unambiguous and enforceable norms on the economic
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practice that shall be able to ensure its harmlessness to our common environment, and to ensure
that the farmers and buyers of food receive the equitable economic benefit, which has eluded them
for so long.
What I have suggested thus far, represents structural changes in several systems, all of which are
essential for the operation of an adequate global system. I have not touched upon all systems
required for the purpose, but the possibility of bringing about those changes, depends on there
being the requisite political will and indeed, the know-how.
If they should obtain, realisation of that political will depends on formulation of appropriate
policies and their effective implementation at a variety of levels, ranging from the global to national
and local. The keywords in the whole endeavour is holistic policy formulation and its effective
implementation. Assuming this will obtain, we can now consider how to assemble an adequate
global food system.
Integration of Food Systems:
Appropriate integration of the local food systems into a national system, which in turn will be
linked into a global food system, seems to be the only logical means of achieving our objective.
National systems may be integrated into the global one either directly or through a regional system.
Marked similarities in the output of the primary systems of countries will favour a regional link-up
among them.
Irrespective of the level at which food systems are integrated, its purpose is to increase their
capacity to produce sufficient quantities of affordable food items appropriate for a given area, and
increase their availability at an adequate number of outlets located there. As far as I can see, this
goal is complete insofar as one’s nutritional needs and culinary preferences under given economic,
geographic and climatic conditions are concerned.
Moreover, it embodies the belief that man represents an individual who is entitled to decide what
one may eat and drink with reference to one’s personal tastes and nutritional needs under those
conditions. After all, the abstract entities like state or universal good will do not feel hunger, while
too many individual humans do.
I shall now outline some guidelines on system integration that applies across the board. They fall
into two logically distinct categories, viz., system type and the output type. In a rational integration,
there is a complete congruence among the system and the output types of the systems involved.
For instance, we can conceive of cereal production as constituting a subset of the primary system.
However, we can identify several component systems in this subset, viz., production of wheat, rice,
oat, rye, etc., each of which have common and different requirements with respect to their
cultivation. So, it would be reasonable to integrate only the similar components of this subset, i.e.,
cultivation of similar grains.
One may now ask, how could one integrate say wheat cultivation carried out as it was done during
the Pharonic times with that of US mid-west today? This objection is irrelevant, for two reasons.
First, in both cases, system type is cereal cultivation, and they have the same output type, hence,
they are fully congruent.
Secondly, our purpose in their integration is to ensure an adequate supply of the cereal to those
who want it at an affordable price. So far, we have believed in simplistic solutions that embody
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increased production like developing ‘high yield’ varieties, ‘capital intensive’ agriculture as the
panacea to world’s hunger, which unfortunately only seems to have had a placebo effect on the
malady.
System integration I have envisaged does not turn farmers redundant nor yet entail harm to our
environment. Both of these will merely increase the number of hungry mouths. We already
produce enough wheat to satisfy the existing need for it, provided that we are willing and able to
husband it in a rational manner. I shall expand on how to achieve this, because it is applicable
across the board to food production.
Assuming that the structural changes we have discussed have been undertaken, authorities would
have access to suitable transport and storage facilities to stockpile a supply of wheat obtain in order
to meet future shortfalls in its domestic production. Moreover, they would also have in place, a
system for its equitable distribution.
Authorities mentioned above, may be local or national, regional or global as described earlier.
Achieving our objective here, depends on having the following:
1. Formal instruments required to empower the concerned parties to carry out the structural
changes and system integration at relevant levels.
2. Means to ensure reliable access to required know-how and material resources appropriate
to the purpose.
3. A world-wide mechanism to monitor and ascertain the global annual production of key food
stuffs with a view to facilitate their equitable availability.
4. International mechanism to stockpile and release key staple foods in a way that will make
them available where there is a shortfall at an equitable price. This may be distributed at
global, regional and local levels as it is required.
5. Actively enforced legal guarantees on the tenure of production medium of small farmers,
and financial incentives to encourage small farming and preservation of agricultural biodiversity.
6. International promotion of world’s culinary diversity as an important aspect of human
culture by actively using all the media tools at our disposal.
7. Establishment of extensive rain harvesting and its underground storage in semi-arid areas,
and intensive reforestation with endemic species.
In conclusion, let me emphasise that unless the structural changes mentioned earlier accompany
the seven actions above, it would not be possible to undertake the latter in a meaningful way. I hope
that this sketch of a plan may be of some use towards developing a global food system which many
a million of hungry mouths have long waited.
Oslo.
12th April, 2015.
54. Bruno Taupier-Létage, ITAB Commission Qualité, France
Dear Madam, Dear Sir
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Please, find enclosed documents for ITAB participation in the SFS programme of FAO/UNEP.
It’s linked with FQH participation.
Sincerely yours
Bruno Taupier-Létage
ITAB Commission Qualité
Tel: + 33 (0)4 75 34 44 86
E-Mail: bruno.taupier-letage@itab.asso.fr
ITAB-Station Inter Instituts
2485 Route des Pécolets
26 800 Etoile sur Rhône
France
Site ITAB: www.itab.asso.fr
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_ENpartner_ITAB.docx
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN_
partner_ITAB.docx
55. David Gould, IFOAM, United States of America
Dear People,
Please find attached our completed participation form regarding our interest in the FAO/UNEP
SFSP as a member of the Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Committee. I would kindly appreciate a
confirmation of your good receipt of this. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards,
David
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_IFO
AM%20-%20Organics%20International.docx
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56. Chetana Mirle, Humane Society International, United States of America
Greetings from Humane Society International,
Attached, please find our feedback form on the 10yfp 10YFP Sustainable Food Systems draft
concept note. I have also attached our expression on interest in being a 10yfp partner, and a
description of our global Meatless Monday Program (stock taking).
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this consultation.
Kind regards,
Chetana
Chetana Mirle, Ph.D.
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Humane%20Society%20Internationa
l%20Participation_in_SFS_programme.pdf
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Humane%20Soceity%20Internationa
l%20Feed_back_form_SFS.pdf
Stocktaking form :
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Humane%20Society%20Internationa
l%20stock_taking_SFS_EN.pdf
57. Wahyudi David, Universitas Bakrie, Indonesia
Dear Madam/Sir,
Please find attached files my feedback form.
Best Regards,
Wahyudi David
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_ENpartner%20WD1_4.docx
Participation form:
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58. Gisèle Yasmeen, University of British Columbia, Canada
Dear Colleagues,
As promised, here is the second form for organizational participants. I am a member of the Board of
Directors of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective, which is interested in participating as per
the attached. Though I am also Senior Fellow at the University of British Columbia (Institute of
Asian Research), I am not authorized to speak on behalf of UBC so cannot fill out a form for the
university. Having said that, participants in the forum will be interested in knowing that UBC has a
Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (run out of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems - LFS) as
well as an experimental farm. There are scholars working on sustainable food-systems in a variety
of institutes, departments etc beyond LFS including Community and Regional Planning, Geography,
Social Work, Health Sciences and even humanities departments.
I did not fill out the form documenting projects because there there are just too many to mention.
Canada alone has sustainable food systems organisations and projects from coast to coast to coast
operating in both English and French (our two official languages) as well as others focused on more
specific communities (indigenous, minority ethnic etc.). A good contact is the Canadian Association
of Food Studies.
I have worked extensively on sustainable food-systems and look forward to hearing about the
outcome of these discussions. Thanks for allowing me to participate.
Gisèle Yasmeen (www.giseleyasmeen.com)
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN
%20VWHC%20April%2013%202015.docx
59. Emilie Prattico, BSR, France
Dear Sir,
Please find attached my contributions for the SFS programme.
Many thanks,
Emilie Prattico, Ph.D
Manager, Partnership Development and Research
BSR
Participation form:
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_EN.docx
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/BSR%20Feed_back_form_SFS_EN.doc
x
60. Michael Brander, Biovision Foundation, Switzerland
Good evening,
On behalf of Biovision Foundation and the Millennium Institute, I am pleased to send you attached
our contribution to the consultation on the topic: "Towards the Development of the Programme on
Sustainable Food Systems (SFSP)".
We remain available for any questions or further information you may require, and we are looking
forward to continue following and contributing to the 10YFP Sustainable Food Systems
Programme.
Your sincerely,
Michael Brander
Senior Policy Advisor
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/CCGA_Feed_back_form_SFS_EN1_FINAL.docx
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/BiovisionCCGA_Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN-1_FINAL.docx
61. Cesar E. López, Alianza BERAS del Caribe, Dominican Republic
Thank you for inviting contributions to United Nations Sustainable Food Systems Programme of the
10-year framework of programs on sustainable consumption and production (10YFP).
Please find enclosed from our BERAS of the Caribbean completed forms:
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Feedback Form
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Opportunity to participate in the 10YP-SFSP
We are looking forward to participate in this program, to learn and develop together with other
initiatives in the framework of the UN 10YFP.
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Best regards
Cesar E. López
Coordinator
Alianza BERAS del Caribe
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_ENpartner_cesar.doc
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN_
partnercesar.doc
Dear All,
I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of all participants to thank Maria and Ibrahim for
taking out the time and moderating this important consultation, flowing into the proposed ten year
programme. My contribution with supporting attachments are trailed below.
Warm regards,
Subhash
62. Subhash Mehta, Devarao Shivaram Trust, India
Development of Programme for Nutrition & Food Systems which are Sustainable in the Long Term
FAO and UNEP’s public consultation on the proposed programme on sustainable food systems
under the 10-Year Framework to be successful needs to focus on long term, low cost low risk agro
ecology systems, putting the rural poor producer communities to work gainfully, thus accessing
own requirements of nutritious food and cash, at little or no cost, if we are to reduce the effects of
climate change, hunger, malnutrition, poverty, suicides whilst increasing net income/ purchasing
power and improving livelihoods of smallholders, pastoralists, tenants, tribals, etc., all of them will
also contribute to feeding their increasing populations, economic development, growth and in the
long term.
The programme also needs to ensure that the producer communities are assisted and facilitated to
set up their producer orgs/ company (PC) but staffed by professionals (general practitioners [GPs]/
MBAs in agriculture) to take over all risks and responsibilities other than on farm activities, link to
a case study: www.navajyoti.org, set up one of the poorest districts of Orissa, India, where
thousands of its members have become sustainable in the long term over the last 5 years.
Attached are docs providing evidence, etc.
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http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/FAO%20DG%20closing%20remarks
%202014.09.17_AgroecologyFAOLetter.pdf
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Sm%20Amar%20Article%20for%20
Sustainability.docx
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63. Elliot Berry, Israel
Please find enclosed my submssion form and two resources related to the Programme.
Best regards
Elliot
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/BERRY%20Participation_in_SFS_prog
ramme_EN.docx
Additional resources :
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/2015%20USDA%20Scientific%20Rep
ort%20Sustainable%20diets-Mediterranean%20diet.pdf
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/236_Berry%20et%20al%20FS%20Su
st%20PHN%202015_2.pdf
64. F. Xavier Medina, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Dear all,
Please find in attachment the document for Participation in SFS Program and the Feedback form.
Best regards,
Xavier
Prof. Dr. F. Xavier Medina (Ph D)
Director
Department of Food Systems, Culture and Society
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Av. Tibidabo, 39-43
E-08035 Barcelona
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Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/MEDINA%20Participation_in_SFS_pro
gramme_EN.docx
Feedback form :
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_Medina_SFS_EN1.docx
65. David Mugambi Mbuba, GRADIF-K, Kenya
Dear Ms Maria Helena Semedo,
Attached are filled up forms from GRADIF-K in relation to the above subject. Looking forward to
hear from you.
Best regards!
David Mugambi Mbuba
Natural Resource Management & Climate Change Coordinator Grassroots Development Initiatives
Foundation-Kenya (GRADIF-K) Located at the Motors (Nthiga) Plaza, 1st Floor P.O Box 595-60400
Chuka Town, Tharaka Nithi County
Mobile: + 254 728911803 or + 254 735402298
Email: dmugambi@gradifkenya.org or mugambis@yahoo.com http://www.gradifKenya.org
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/GRADIFK%20stock_taking_SFS_EN.docx
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/GRADIFK%20Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN.docx
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/GRADIFK%20Feed_back_form_SFS_EN.docx
66. Emil Mohr, Debio, Norway
Please find enclosed the Feedback form.
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Kind regards
Emil Mohr
Senior Adviser
--------------------------------Debio
N-1940 Bjørkelangen
Mobil: (+47) 920 33 136
Sentralbord: (+47) 63 86 26 50
emil.mohr@debio.no / kontor@debio.no
www.debio.no
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_Debio.doc
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN_
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67. Stephen Thornhill Dept of Food Business & Development, University College Cork,
Ireland
Congratulations on the draft concept note on this important issue.
I think it needs to have a stronger focus on ethics and equity as key issues in delivering food and
nutrition security and would therefore propose that the "goal" needs to be changed to “sustainable
and ethical food systems” to encourage a fairer distribution of resources within the system and to
protect the livelihoods of the poor.
I think the draft also needs to highlight that food systems sit within different socio-economic and
political contexts, which may not be coherent with a move toward sustainable food systems (eg
WTO and other free trade agreements currently being negotiated, national policies to encourage
large-scale intensive farming in developing countries, etc).
In terms of promoting the move toward a more sustainable food system, this is a global scale issue
and requires commitments from governments and organisations to ensure that more sustainable
food systems are actually implemented, in a similar way to how climate change targets have been
set. I would therefore incorporate a 5th objective to “Develop and recommend a set of policies and
targets that UN members and other signatories should adopt to ensure that sustainable food
systems are delivered”.
And on the work areas, the focus on "market-based and voluntary" solutions may not be sufficient.
Mandatory sustainability certification and standards may be required, as experience has shown
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with the many voluntary biofuel sustainability certification schemes, most of which do not
adequately address food and nutrition security.
Finally I would encourage that under work area 1 there should be a central platform and website
housed at FAO which would assemble and disseminate all relevant information on this vital issue,
with links to the various platforms and initiatives.
Feedback form:
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68. Lluis Serra-Majem, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria & International
Mediterranean Diet Foundation, Spain
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/IFMEDSERRAMAJEM%20Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN.pdf
69. Patricia Lopez, FoodDrinkEurope, Belgium
Dear Madam/Sir,
Herewith we would like to provide you with FoodDrinkEurope contribution to the FAO-UNEP
Consultation: Towards the Development of the Programme on Sustainable Food Systems.
We attach our expression of interest to become members and partners of the 10YFP- SFSP and
initiatives for sustainable food systems.
Kind regards,
Patricia Lopez
Manager
Environment
FoodDrinkEurope
Avenue des Nerviens 9-31- 1040 Bruxelles – BELGIUM
Participation form:
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70. Antonia Trichopoulou, Hellenic Health Foundation, Greece
Please find attached the express of interest for participation in the Programme.
Kind regards,
Antonia Trichopoulou
Participation form:
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71. Lorenzo Donini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
You'll find as attached file the form I completed to confirm the interest of my organisation
(Sapienza University of Rome and CIISCAM - International inter-university center for
Mediterranean food culture studies) in participating in the 10YFP-SFSP.
Regards
Lorenzo M Donini
Participation form:
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72. Tozie Zokufa, Pan African Animal Welfare Alliance, South Africa
Dear colleagues,
Once again thank you for this opportunity, attached please find our interest in joining this platform
and contributing to the future of our people.
Regards,
Participation form:
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73. Delanie Kellon, International Dairy Federation, Belgium
Dear Madam/Sir:
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Thank you very much for the opportunity to comment on the draft concept note. We look forward
to the opportunity to contribute to this valuable effort in the future.
Attached, please find comments from the International Dairy Federation (IDF). I would be grateful
if you could confirm receipt of the document. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any
questions.
Best regards,
Delanie
Delanie Kellon, PhD
Technical Manager
Direct Tel: +32 2 325 67 53
Cell phone: +32 491 71 24 99
dkellon@fil-idf.org
Feedback form:
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74. Dan Crossley, Food Ethics Council, United Kingdom
Please find attached a response from the Food Ethics Council on ‘Towards the development of the
programme on sustainable food systems’.
We welcome the opportunity to respond to the consultation, which has lots of positive elements to
it. We strongly support work to encourage collaboration and to accelerate progress towards
genuinely sustainable (environmentally sustainable, fair, humane and healthy) food systems.
However, we would like to see a more explicit focus on fairness and on sustainable diets. We also
believe that the scope should extend beyond market-based and voluntary solutions, as these can
only ever be part of the overall solution, given the scale and urgency of the challenges we face.
If you have any follow up questions, please get in touch.
Kind regards
Dan
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75. Sivabalan Kulandaivel Chellappan, Extensio, India
Pls do the needful.
K.C.Siva balan
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76. Leonardo Mirone, Barilla, Italy
Please find herewith attached Barilla forms regarding “Towards the Development of the
Programme on Sustainable Food Systems (SFSP)”
Best regards
Leonardo Mirone
Group Supply Chain
Purchasing Director – Raw Materials
Barilla G. e R. Fratelli S.p.A.
Feedback form:
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rilla.pdf
Participation form:
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Barilla.pdf
Stocktaking form:
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77. Frank Eyhorn, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Switzerland
Dear Moderator,
Please find attached our inputs to the Development of the Programme on Sustainable Food Systems
(SFSP) of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production
(10YFP).
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Best regards,
Frank Eyhorn
Stocktaking form:
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hange.docx
Feedback form:
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78. Massimo Iannetta, ENEA, Italy
Please find ENEA's (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable
Development) participation form.
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/ENEAParticipation_in_SFS_programm
e_EN.docx
79. Denis Lairon, INSERM, France
Please find enclosed the participation form of Aix-Marseille Université/INSERM/INRA, Human
nutrition (NORT) Joint Laboratory , Marseille France.
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/INSERMParticipation_Sustainable_Fo
od_Systems_0.docx
80. Frank Grothaus, UNFSS, Switzerland
Dear colleagues,
Please find attached to the email below the initial expression of interest from UNFSS to participate
in the 10YFP on Sustainable Food Systems.
Best regards,
Frank
Frank Grothaus
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Assistant programme manager
United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS)
Trade Analysis Branch
Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/10YFP%20SFSP%20Advisory%20No
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81. Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) , Switzerland
Dear Sir, Dear Madam,
Please find enclosed the expression of interest of FiBL regarding the FAO/UNEP about sustainable
food systems programme.
We thank you warmly for the opportunity given for our further participation.
Kind regards.
Dominique Barjolle, Deputy Director
Urs Niggli, Director
Participation form:
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82. Laurence Beck, Wessanen, Netherlands
Dear program moderators
Please find attached the documents from Wessanen for the participation to the Sustainable Food
System program.
Best regards/Met vriendelijke groeten,
______________________________
Laurence Beck | Director Organic expertise centre, Quality and R&D Wessanen
+33 (0)6 10 82 58 57
Participation form:
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partnerlaurence.docx
Feedback form:
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83. Yuri Cartier, International Union for Health Promotion and Education, France
The International Union for Health Promotion and Education (http://www.iuhpe.org) is pleased to
provide the attached comments on the SFSP concept note.
Marie-Claude Lamarre, IUHPE Executive Director
Jane Dixon, IUHPE expert member on food systems
Trevor Shilton, IUHPE Vice-President for Advocacy
Feedback form:
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84. Patrick Mink, Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), Switzerland
Dear Ms Semedo, Dear Mr Thiaw,
Dear colleagues from the FSN Forum,
Thank you very much for carrying out this consultation and for the opportunity to provide feedback
on the draft concept note of this important programme.
I am pleased to send you herewith attached, on behalf of the Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG)
of Switzerland, our feedback form together with the form to express interest to participate in the
10YFP-SFSP.
FOAG looks forward to actively promote the implementation of the programme.
Best regards,
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Patrick Mink
Policy Advisor
Federal Department of Economic Affairs,
Education and Research EAER
Federal Office for Agriculture FOAG
International sustainablele agriculture Unit
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_FO
AG.docx
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_FOAG.docx
85. Perumal Karuppan, BERAS, India
To United Nations Program Moderators,
Thank you for inviting contributions to United Nations Sustainable Food Systems Programme of the
10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production (10YFP).
Please find enclosed from BERAS India duly completed:
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Feedback Form
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Opportunity to participate in the 10YP-SFSP
We are looking forward to participate in this work in India, to learn and develop together with
other initiatives in the framework of the UN 10YFP.
Best Regards
Dr. K.Perumal,
Head BERAS India
Participation form:
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86. Dora Fiani, Knowledge Economy Foundation, Egypt
Dear Sirs and members of the FSN and CIHEAM
We have had the pleasure to receive an invitation from the FSN team to present to your important
new program for " Sustainable Agri. Food & Rural Development Dept".
We are very keen to be part of your program, and believe that our input as an Egyptian NGO
involved in bringing ICT to the agriculture sector and creating innovative marketing linkages for
the small farmers, that we can play a positive role as a partner and/or a member of your scheme.
We enclose to your attention, both the subscription form filled as per your request, together with
our profile featuring our activities and thus potential input to your ambitious program.
J. Dora Fiani
President, Knowledge Economy Foundation
Managing Partner, Fiani Advisory
7, Brazil St, Zamalek, Cairo,Egypt
Participation form:
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87. Alexandrina Sirbu, AGIR, Romania
Dear all,
I express the interest to take part in the 10YFP-SFSP as partner.
Sincerely,
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Alexandrina Sirbu
Professor, PhD "Constantin Brancoveanu" University
FMMAE Ramnicu Valcea
39 Nicolae Balcescu Bld.
240210 Ramnicu Valcea, Valcea County – Romania
Participation form
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88. Raymond Sakyi, agronomist, Ghana
To whom it may concern
Please find attached the feed back form for “Opportunity to participate in the 10YFP-SFSP”. Thank
you.
Best regards,
Raymond Sakyi
Participation form:
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89. Said Zarouali, Haut Commissariat au Plan, Morocco
Bonsoir
Vous trouvez ci joint quelques remarques sur l'approche proposée.
Br
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90. Alison Blay-Palmer, Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Canada
Dear all,
Attached please find the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food System's feedback on the draft
concept note, as well as our expression of interest in participating in the 10YFP-SFSP.
Many thanks,
Dr. Alison Blay-Palmer, Director, Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems
Dr. Erin Nelson, Coordinator, Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems
Dr. Patricia Ballamingie, Carleton University
Dr. Irena Knezevic, Carleton University
Dr. Karen Landman, University of Guelph
Dr. Charles Levkoe, Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr. Phil Mount, Wilfrid Laurier University
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_EN_ABP.docx
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN_
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91. Peter Stevenson, Compassion in World Farming, United Kingdom
I attach comments by Compassion in World Farming on the draft concept note for the further
development of the Programme on Sustainable Food Systems
Peter Stevenson
Chief Policy Advisor
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Compassion In World Farming
Feedback form:
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92. Subhash Mehta, Devarao Shivaram Trust, India
Following modern low cost low risk producer oriented economies of scope farmer and climate
friendly agro ecology programmes are sustainable in the long term, they meet the own nutritious
food and cash needs of the producer communities of each area, can feed the world not the high cost
high risk market oriented economies of scale conventional mono crop green revolution agricultural
methods
Governments must restructure their high cost high risk conventional agriculture systems, shift
subsidies and research funding from market oriented agro-industrial monoculture to meeting the
needs of smallholder producer oriented economies of scope, following ‘agro-ecological systems’,
according to the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, her talk trailed below, coincides with a
new agro-ecology initiative within the UN’s Food and Agriculture Org (FAO):
Green revolution conventional industrial agricultural methods can no longer feed the world, its
impact on the environmental and ecological crises linked to land, water and resource availability
and access to nutritious food by over 50% of the world’s population.
The stark warning comes from the new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food,
Prof Hilal Elver, in her first public speech since being appointed in June last year.
“Food production policies which do not address the root causes of world hunger, malnutrition,
health and poverty would be bound to fail”, she told a packed audience in Amsterdam.
One billion people globally are hungry, she declared, before calling on governments to support a
transition to “agricultural democracy” which would empower rural smallholder producer
communities.
Agriculture needs a new direction: follow agro-ecology of each area:
“The 2009 global food crisis signalled the need for a turning point in the global food system”, she
said at the event hosted by the Transnational Institute (TNI), a leading international think tank.
Modern green revolution conventional agriculture system of the 1950s, is more resource intensive,
very fossil fuel dependent, using fertilisers and toxic pesticides based on massive production and
mono-culture (high cost high risk). This policy has to change if the agrarian crisis is to be reversed.
“We are already facing a range of challenges. Resource scarcity, increasing population, decreasing
land availability and accessibility, emerging water scarcity, and soil degradation require us to rethink how best to use our resources for future generations.”
The UN official said that new scientific research increasingly shows how ‘agro-ecology’ offers far
more environmentally sustainable methods that can still meet the rapidly growing demand for
food:
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“Agro-ecology is a traditional way of using farming methods that are less resource oriented, and
which work in harmony with society and nature.
Small farmers are the key to feeding the world
‘There is a geographical and distributional imbalance in who is consuming and producing. Global
agricultural policy needs to adjust. In the crowded and hot world of tomorrow, the challenge of how
to protect the vulnerable is heightened”, Hilal Elver continued.
Traditional farming methods entails recognising women’s role in food production It also means
recognising small farmers, who are also the most vulnerable, and the most hungry.
Elver speaks not just with the authority of her UN role, but as a respected academic. She is research
professor and co-director at the Project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy
in the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Present industrial agriculture grabs 80% of subsidies and 90% of research funds
Hinting at the future direction of her research and policy recommendations, she criticised the vast
subsidies going to large mono-culture agribusiness companies. Currently, in the European Union
about 80% of subsidies and 90% of research funding go to support conventional industrial
agriculture.
“Empirical and scientific evidence shows that small farmers feed the world. According to the UN
Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO), 70% of food we consume globally comes from small
farmers”, said Prof Elver.
“If these trends continue, by 2050, 75% of the entire human population will live in urban areas. We
must reverse these trends by providing new possibilities and incentives to small farmers, especially
for young people in rural areas.”
But Marcel Beukeboom, a Dutch civil servant specialising in food and nutrition at the Ministry of
Trade & Development who spoke after Elver, dissented from Elver’s emphasis on small farms:
“While I agree that we must do more to empower small farmers, the fact is that the big monoculture farms are simply not going to disappear. We have to therefore find ways to make the
practices of industrial agribusiness more effective, and this means working in partnership with the
private sector, small and large.”
A UN initiative on agro-ecology?
The new UN food rapporteur’s debut speech coincided with a landmark two-day International
Symposium on Agroecology for Food and Nutrition Security in Rome, hosted by the FAO. Over 50
experts participated in the symposium, including scientists, the private sector, government officials,
and civil society leaders.
A letter to the FAO signed by nearly 70 international food scientists congratulated the UN agency
for convening the agro-ecology symposium and called for a “UN system-wide initiative on agroecology as the central strategy for addressing climate change and building resilience in the face of
water crises.”
More than just a science — a social movement!
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A signatory to the letter, Mindi Schneider, assistant professor of Agrarian, Food and Environmental
Studies at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, said: “Agro-ecology is more than just a
science, it’s also a social movement for justice that recognises and respects the right of communities
of farmers to decide what they grow and how they grow it.”
“Generally, nobody talks about agro-ecology, because it’s too political. The simple fact that the FAO
is calling a major international gathering to discuss agro-ecology is therefore a very significant
milestone.”
Attached are docs to support the above programmes
Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Rodale%20INst%20white%20paper
%20Org%20Agriculture%20and%20Climate%20Change_2014%2004%2018%20%281%29_0.pdf
Back to School: 14 Initiatives Educating Youth About Agriculture
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/sm%20Agri%20in%20School%20Ja
mie.docx
Organic – Agro ecological Systems are low cost & rural poor smallholder producer friendly
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/sm%20ORGANIC%20%20AGROECOLOGY.docx
93. Molly Anderson, College of the Atlantic, United States of America
Feedback form:
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94. Moritz Teriete, Sustainable Food Systems GmbH, Switzerland
Dear Sir or Madam
I send you the SFSP- feedback forms on behalf of Moritz Teriete, CEO Sustainable Food Systems
GmbH.
Yours faithfully,
Jan Landert
Stocktaking form:
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95. Leonardo Novo, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Brazil
Removed at the request of the author.
96. Marly Winckler, Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira SVB, Brazil
Please find attached the forms on 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption
and Production Patterns (10YFP) initiative.
Best wishes,
-Marly Winckler
www.svb.org.br
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/SVB_stock_taking_SFS_EN21.docx_.pd
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Participation form:
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97. Dominique Senn, foodwaste.ch, Switzerland
Dear Ms Semedo, Dear Mr Thiaw,
Although with one day of delay, I hope you will accept our filled-in forms for the participation in the
10YFP-SFSP.
Best regards,
Dominique Senn
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Project manager
Association foodwaste.ch
Spitalgasse 24, CH-3011 Bern
Stocktaking form:
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98. Anne Roulin, Nestlé, Switzerland
Please find attached our input to the Public Consultation on sustainable food systems under the
10YFP-SCP which includes feedback on the concept note; three examples for stocktaking (Example
1, Example 2, Example 3) of actions and initiatives in SFS as well as a proposal to be a member of
the MAC.
With best regards
Anne Roulin
VP: Nutrition, Health & Wellness & Sustainability
Nestlé
CH-1800 Vevey
Switzerland
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN
%20U.%20Schenker.docx
Feedback form:
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99. Ruth Bastow, Global Plant Council, United Kingdom
To whom it may concern
Please find attached completed forms from the Global Plant Council for the discussion regarding
"Towards the Development of the Programme on Sustainable Food Systems (SFSP)”.
Stocktaking:
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Global Plant Council Biofortification Initiative
Digital Seed Bank
Global Plant Council Stress Resilience Initiative
Regards
Ruth
Feedback form:
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Participation form:
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100.
Denis Lairon, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Please find attached my Feedback form for the SFS programme.
Best regards.
Denis LAIRON, emeritus Research Director at INSERM, Marseille, France
Feedback form :
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101.
Ewa Rembiałkowska, Faculty of Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences
WULS, Poland
Dear Moderator,
I am sending you my participation form.
Thanks in advance,
ER
Prof. Dr hab. Ewa Rembiałkowska
Chair of Organic Food
Faculty of Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences WULS
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102.
Joshua Konkakoh, Better World Cameroon, Cameroon
I am happy to submit my contributions from Cameroon.
Accept my highest esteem for your great work,
Joshua Konkankoh
Better World Cameroon
Stock taking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS_Cameroon.doc
Feedback form:
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103.
Reuben Sessa, FAO , Italy
Please find enclosed the stocktaking and participation forms on behalf of YUNGA (Youth and United
Nations Global Alliance).
Stock taking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS_Sessa.docx
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_Ses
sa.docx
104.
Tom Andrews, Soil Association, United Kingdom
Please find below the stocktaking form on behalf of the Soil Association.
Stock taking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS_Andrews.docx
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105.
David Neven, Italy
In the context of this consultation, I would like to flag some work at FAO that aligns closely, namely
work on knowledge management related to sustainable food value chain development. This is a
broader program of normative work that includes the initiation of a new set of practitioner
handbooks, a training program, an (internal) FAO technical network and an online knowledge
platform. In a few months, FAO will launch this knowledge platform. Value chains are a part of the
food system, and their holistic, systems-based nature and our particular focus on the three
sustainability dimensions (economic, social, environmental) makes this platform a tool that could
likely support the FAO-UNEP program in various ways: generating ideas, facilitating networking,
sharing experiences, promoting best practices, …Especially for objective 3 on stock taking. The
approach is described in the attached document.
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Neven%202014%20VC%20principle
s%20book_1.pdf
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Clara Homs Bassedas, NGO Nutrition Without Borders , Spain
Dear all,
Thanks for let us participate and be part of this process.
From the NGO Nutrition Without Borders we will like to refer to Rome Declaration on
Nutrition from November 2014 where, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said: "We have
the knowledge, expertise and resources needed to overcome all forms of malnutrition.
Governments must lead the way," and he add “But the push to improve global nutrition must be a
joint effort, involving civil society organizations and the private sector.”.
The key of a Development of the Programme on Sustainable Food Systems it is in our hand and in
all the related stakeholders. It is our responsibility and duty to participate in this process and share
with all of you our knowledge and experiences.
Thank you in advance,
NGO Nutrition Without Borders.
http://www.nutricionsinfronteras.org/en
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Harry Donkers, Innonet, Netherlands
Dear Moderator,
I herewith send you my comments on the Draft note on Sustainable Food Systems.
I hope you can use these comments in making the final version.
Sincerely yours,
Harry Donkers
The Netherlands
Feedback form:
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Ministry of Agriculture , Brazi
Dear Mr Ibrahim Thiaw,
Please find attached herewith our contributions for the discussion about SFSP document
With kind regards,
Luiz Rodrigues
Feedback form:
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PA.docx
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Carolina Obando, Ministerio de Agricultura, Ecuador
Estimados FAO,
Reciba un cordial saludo del Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura, y Pesca-MAGAP.
Remito el formulario sobre las iniciativas relevantes para el desarrollo del Programa sobre sistemas
alimentarios sostenibles. Gracias.
Saludos Cordiales,
Carolina Obando
Analista de Preinversión Y Cooperación Nacional e Internacional
Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura Y Pesca
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Documento del Proyecto: Incorporación del uso y conservación de la agrobiodiversidad en las
políticas públicas a través de estrategias integradas e implementación in situ en cuatro provicias
alto andinas
Formulario Recopilación de acciones e iniciativas:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/San%20Imbabura%20Form.pdf
Documento del Proyecto: Fortalecimiento de los sistemas alimentarios locales, construcción de
capacitaded locales orientadas a mejorar la producción, el acceso a alimentos sanos, nutritivos e
inocuos y la nutrición de las familias.
Formulario Recopilación de acciones e iniciativas:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/es/sites/default/files/resources/Sobernia%20Alimentaria_1.pdf
Documento del Proyecto: Apoyo a las Estrategias Nacionales y Subregionales de Seguridad
Alimentaria y Nutricional (SAN), y de Superación de la Pobreza en países de America Latina y el
Caribe
Formulario Recopilación de acciones e iniciativas:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/es/sites/default/files/resources/GEF%20Agrobiodiversidad.pdf
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Aline Stämpfli, University of Bern and Bern University of Applied Sciences,
Switzerland
Please find attached our information.
Best regards,
Aline Stämpfli
Stocktaking form:
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Muhammad Ariful Haque, Kamfisht Universe Engineering, Bangladesh
Please look at the attachments for your consideration.
Best wishes
Muhammad Ariful Haque (Shohagh)
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Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS_EN_0_by_Muhamma
d_Ariful%20Haque.docx
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN_
1_by_Muhammad_Ariful_Haque.docx
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_EN_by_Muham
mad_Ariful_Haque.docx
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Marion Hammerl, Lake Constance Foundation, Germany
Please see the attachments.
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/112_Sustainable_Food_Systems/stock_taki
ng_SF_LCF%20GNF.docx
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/112_Sustainable_Food_Systems/stock_taki
ng_SF_LCF%20AgriClimateChange.docx
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_ENLake%20Constance%20Foundation.docx
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_EN_LCF_GNF%2
0final_2.docx
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Jean Marius D’Alexandris, Lyseconcept, France
Please find enclosed my stocktaking form.
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS_D%27Alexandris.do
cx
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Global Nature Fund, Germany
Attached the participation request submitted by the Global Nature Fund.
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_GN
F.docx
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Adam Drewnowski, Center for Public Health Nutrition, USA
Hello - I have some brief comments on the SFSP - please see attached form.
With kind regards
Adam Drewnowski, PhD
Director, Center for Public Health Nutrition
University of Washington
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_Adam.docx
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Peter Defranceschi, ICLEI, Belgium
Dear FSN Forum Team,
Dear Sandro Dernini,
attached, please find ICLEI's expression of interest in participating in the Programme on
Sustainable Food Systems (SFSP) of the 10YFP.
We welcome the joint initiative of UNEP and FAO and thank you for this opportunity.
Looking forward to cooperating with you.
Best regards,
Peter Defranceschi
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Susan H. Brangdon, Quaker UN Office, Switzerland
Please find enclosed the forms from Quaker United Nations Organization.
Susan H.Bragdon
Representative, Food and Sustainability
Quaker UN Office
13 avenue du Mervelet
1209 Geneve
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN
%20SHB%20QUNO.docx
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_EN%20SHB%2
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. Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition
Dear Madam, Sir,
Please find attached our contributions to the online consultation “Towards the Development of the
Programme on Sustainable Food Systems”.
I would appreciate an acknowledgement of receipt.
Best wishes,
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS%20GFC.docx
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme%20
GFC.docx
Stocktaking form:
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Angela Polito, CRA-NUT, Italy
Please find the participation form compiled by the Council for Agricultural Research and
Economics/ Research Centre on Food and Nutrition (CRA-NUT).
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN_
CRANUT_Polito.pdf
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David Neven, Italy
Hereby attached two ongoing FAO/AGS initiatives that fit the program of work described here.
Kindly submitted for inclusion. This relates to a knowledge platform on sustainable food value
chain development and greening value chains.
Stock taking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS_Green%20food%20
vlaue%20chains%20AGS.docx
Stock taking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS_SFVC%20knowledg
e%20platform%20AGS.docx
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Cristina Agrillo, Slow Food, Italy
Dear Sir/Madame,
Please find enclosed Slow Food's comments and input on the draft concept note.
With best regards,
____________________
Cristina Agrillo
Slow Food
International relations and fundraising
Feedback form:
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Martina Bavec, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Dear all,
With this letter I’m informing you about our interest for collaboration in the Sustainable Food
Systems Programme concerning organic .
Kind regards,
Martina Bavec
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN_
partnermartina.docx
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_EN_UM%20mar
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Sebastian Kretschmer, Drexel University, Equatorial Guinea
Dear all - thank you for the opportunity to participate in this program. We need more collective
impact alliances to solve important problems - this is a great start!
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/FQH%20and%20BBPP%20Feed_bac
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Allison Loconto, FAO, Italy
Dear Colleagues,
Please find attached our contribution to the online consultation.
We are proposing collaborative work on voluntary standards.
Best,
Catherine Teyssier and Allison Loconto
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Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS_EN_voluntary%20st
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Aimée Hampel-Milagrosa, German Development Institute, Germany
Dear FSN moderator,
please find my feedback on the draft concept note of the 10YFP
Best regards,
Dr. Aimée Hampel-Milagrosa
Senior Researcher
Abt II Nachhaltige Wirtschafts- und Sozialentwicklung
Department of Sustainable Economic and Social Development
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) / German Development Institute
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_EN_DIE.docx
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Alessandro Pirani, Future Food Institute
Please find attached our form on the proposed participation of our Institute to your programme,
as lead or co-lead or other roles you think may be suitable to our experience.
best,
Alessandro Pirani
Future Food Institute
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Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department, FAO, Italy
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/FAO%20Participation_in_SFS_progra
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Sebastian Kretschmer, Drexel University - Bioko Biodiversity Protection
Program partnering with FQH, Equatorial Guinea
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/BBPP%20and%20FQH%20Participat
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Bernardete Neves, Land and Water Division, FAO, Italy
Dear colleagues,
In our work on Incentives for Ecosystem Services (IES) for Food and Agriculture, we share the
expected outcome of the 10YFP-SFSP as we also hope to “propose a mix of policy, regulatory and
voluntary instruments (…) to accelerate the uptake of SCP practice across food systems.” We hope
to do this through activities similar to those you propose, especially:
“Objective 4: Bring together initiatives and develop partnerships to build synergies and
cooperation to leverage resources towards mutual goal of promoting, enhancing and facilitating the
shift towards more sustainable food systems”.
Work Area 2: Encourage, facilitate and support inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogue to help
inform interconnected policymaking:
a) capacity building provision to governments and policy makers to facilitate:
o (iii) assessment of policy options, including cost-effectiveness and welfare analysis; and
o (iv) the building of capacity for regulation, enforcement, and EIA ( environmental and social
impact assessment) processes; and
o b) promoting the building of Public Private Partnerships to, for example, expand access to
finance
o Work Area 3: Facilitate the use and enhance opportunities for market-based and/or voluntary
approaches:
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c) identification, and piloting the viability of innovative market mechanisms for environmental
services in the agri-food supply chain, and scale-up (e.g. the role of Payments for Ecosystem
Services);
As such, please consider adding to page 4 of the FAO EOI: Land and Water (NRL) – work on
sustainable management of land and water, and the development of incentives to support their
adoption, through coordinated planning and investment in agriculture and environmental
measures.
For more background see attached:
-
our stocktacking form;
the contribution we made at your last meeting FAO-UNEP Sustainable Food Systems
Programme: Workshop on Knowledge and Information for Sustainable Food Systems, Rome, 10-11
September
2014;
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/FAO%20UNEP%2010YFP_SFSstock_t
aking_IES_0.docx
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a project flyer showing how we will do this in 2015;
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/FAO%20IES%20%20flyer2015vDRAFT27April.pdf
regards to all
Nanete
--------------------------------------------------------------------------Bernardete Neves
Natural Resources Officer
Land and Water Division (NRL)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome, Italy
Stocktaking form:
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Harry Donkers, Innonet, Netherlands
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN
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A C Baker, The Vegan Society, United Kingdom
Our response is straight-forward - we ask that more support be given to those farmers and
communities who wish to move away from farming animals toward plant-based farming and diets.
In a UK context, it is well demonstrated that such approaches are socially and economically
sustainable and can reduce the need for fertile land, fresh water and fossil fuel energy by a factor of
three compared to the typical UK 'meat-and-dairy' based farming and diets.
With appropriate resources, locally adapted stock-free farming and plant-based diets can help
communities to achieve food sovereignty.
132.
Paulo Estevão Cruvinel, Brazilian Corporation for Agricultural Research
(Embrapa), Brazil
Dear Moderator, Good Morning
Please, find in the attached files the information related to (Form #1) initiative reported, (Form #2)
feedback, and (Form #3) espression of interest of participation in the SFS Programme. I think that
sustainable agricultural and the technology development refers to increase productivity, quality,
efficient and resource-saving, i.e., water, soil, land, energy, fodder techniques, good practices,
methods and expertise for production and life quality. It also refers to techniques for species
development and improvement, pest-control expertise and to technology appropriate for the
management, protection and improvement of the environment. To achieve such objectives, in
addition to increasing inputs of materials for production, scientific and technical expertise should
be useful and fully utilized to improve efficiency, quality of production and to maintain sustainable
agricultural development. In this context I do believe that could be useful an attention to new
methods and instrumentation to decrease risk and impacts in agricultural practices.
Very Truly Yours,
Paulo E. Cruvinel
Researcher
Embrapa Instrumentation
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Jonica Otarra, Center for Integrated Development and Social Marketing,Inc.,
Philippines
I am now submitting my feedback on the draft concept note. I hope it can help. :-)
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_EN%20%281%
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Karl von Koerber, Working Group on Sustainable Nutrition, Germany
Dear colleagues,
Please find attached the stock taking form, the feedback form on the SFSP as well as the
participation form.
Additionally, we like to refer to our principle publication about Sustainable Nutrition (in German):
http://www.nachhaltigeernaehrung.de/fileadmin/Publikationen/aid_eif_Nachhaltige_Ernaehrung_
Koerber_09-2014__Lit.pdf
and
the
flyer
of
our
English
book
“The
Joy
of
Sustainable
Eating”:
http://www.nachhaltigeernaehrung.de/fileadmin/Aktuelles/Flyer_The_Joy_of_Sustainable_Eating__Koerber-Hohler2.pdf. This consumer-oriented book with forewords from FAO and UNEP combines
theoretical background and practical advice with about 100 recipes. It is awarded as “Official
contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development” and can contribute to the
implementation of Sustainable Nutrition into practice.
Finally you can have a look at the flyer of our German edition „Nachhaltig geniessen: Rezeptbuch
für unsere Zukunft”:
http://www.nachhaltigeernaehrung.de/fileadmin/Publikationen/Flyer_NG_Logo_fuer_HP.pdf .
We are looking forward to participate in the SFSP.
Kind regards,
Karl von Koerber and Nadine Bader
Working Group on Sustainable Nutrition – Arbeitsgruppe Nachhaltige Ernährung
Advisory Bureau for Nutrition Ecology – Beratungsbüro für ErnährungsÖkologie
E-Mail: koerber@nachhaltigeernaehrung.de
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Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/KoerberKarl%20stock_taking_SFS_EN
%20V4%202015-04-30.pdf
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/KoerberKarl%20Feed_back_form_SFS
_EN%20V7%202015-04-30.pdf
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/KoerberKarl%20Participation_in_SFS
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Gabor Figeczky, IFOAM - Organics International, Germany
Dear Co-ordination Team,
Please find attached another contribution from IFOAM - Organics International to the stocktaking.
Best regards,
Gábor Figeczky
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS_EN_IFOAM%20%20Organics%20International_%20NMA.docx
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Aly M. Abdel-Salam, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt
Respected Colleague,
Please see attached file for participation in the 10YFP-SESP
Best Regards,
Dr. Aly M. Abdel-Salam
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Keith James, WRAP, United Kingdom
Dear Sir / Madam,
Please find attached our feedback on the SFS discussion.
Best wishes,
Keith
Feedback form:
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Marie Persson and Tara Garnett, Food Climate Research Network, UK
We are pleased to submit our contribution to the stocktaking exercise on initiatives related to
sustainable food systems, part of the online consultation "Towards the Development of the
Programme on Sustainable Food Systems".
With best regards,
Tara Garnett and Marie Persson
Food Climate Research Network
Environmental Change Institute
University of Oxford
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS_Food_Climate_Rese
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Paulo E. Cruvinel, Embrapa Instrumentation, Brazil
Dear Moderator, Good Morning
Please, find in the attached files the information related to (Form #1) initiative reported, (Form #2)
feedback, and (Form #3) espression of interest of participation in the SFS Programme.
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Also, I would like to express that such interest of participation was motivated by Dr. Savio José
Barros de Mendonça, who is the Focal-Point of the Programme in Brazil.
Very Truly Yours,
Paulo E. Cruvinel
Researcher
Embrapa Instrumentation
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_Em
brapa.pdf
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_EN_Embrapa.pd
f
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Initiative%20Reported_Embrapa.pdf
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James Lomax, UNEP, Kenya, France
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please up load the attached on the FSN website on the Sustainable Food Systems Programme
consultation.
Best regards,
James
Participation form:
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Augustin Efoegan Efoe, Togo
Bonsoir Moderator
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Je veux vous prier de trouver en attache les documents remplis pour ma participation au SFS
Merci
Augustin
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Formulaire%20rempli%20%20FAO
%20Participation_in_SFS_programme_FR_4.docx
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Formulaire%202%20rempli%20Fao
%20Feed_back_form_SFS_FR.docx
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Formulaire1%20FAO%20%20INVEN
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Nic Lampkin, Organic Research Centre, United Kingdom
Dear FSN Moderator.
Please find attached our registration of interest in participation in the SFS programme, and the
feedback form relating to the SFS programme.
With best wishes
Nicolas Lampkin
Prof. Nic Lampkin
Executive Director, Organic Research Centre
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_EN_OrganicRese
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Kelliane Fuscaldi, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Brazil
Please find attached the forms regarding the participation of the Secretariat of Agricultural And
Cooperative Development (SDC)/ Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA) in the
10YFP-SFSP.
Please let us know if you received it accordingly.
Kind regards,
Kelliane Fuscaldi
Chefe de Gabinete
Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Agropecuário e Cooperativismo
Tel: (61) 3218-2461 ou 2462
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_agric_brasil.pdf
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/10YFP%20SFSP%20Feedback%20Fo
rm.docx
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Kelliane Fuscaldi, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Brazil
We are also sending the forms related with ongoing projects in 4 coordinations at SDC.
Kind regards,
Kelliane Fuscaldi
Chefe de Gabinete
Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Agropecuário e Cooperativismo
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Produ%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20e%20
Consumo%20sustent%20Formulario1_ROSI.docx
Stocktaking form:
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Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/10YFP%20SFSP%20Stocktaking%20
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Gloria Hanna Jabbour Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of of
Zahle and Bekaa, Lebanon
To whom it may concern,
kindly find attached the participation form in the SFS program.
We would like to tell you that the Chamber through its various departments is so flexible for any
task that you may need for the best implementation of the program.
Please let us know If you need further detailed information.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Gloria HANNA JABBOUR
Quality & Product Development Responsible
SLOWMED Project Coordinator
Food Quality Center
Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Zahle and Bekaa
Zahle, Industrial road - P.O.box: 100 Zahle – Lebanon
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN_
Lebanon.doc
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Elise Golan, U.S. Department of Agriculture, United States of America
Dear Sir/Madam:
Please find attached the U.S. comments on the draft concept note for the 10YFP-SFSP as well as the
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s expression of interest in participating as a member on the MultiStakeholder Advisory Committee.
Please let me know if anything is unclear.
Best Regards,
Elise
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Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_US
%20Department%20of%20Agriculture.docx
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/10YFP%20SFSP%20Feedback%20Fo
rm--US%20comments.docx
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Gábor Figeczky, IFOAM - Organics International, Germany
Dear Co-ordination Team,
Please find attached another contribution from IFOAM - Organics International to the stocktaking.
Best regards,
Gábor Figeczky
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS_EN_IFOAM2%20%20Organics%20International_%20NMA.docx
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Christine Cherbut, INRA, France
Please find herewith :
- our feedback form, attached ;
- 5 stock-taking forms, links below:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/112_Sustainable_Food_Systems/Dualine_st
ock_taking_SFS_EN.docx
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/112_Sustainable_Food_Systems/DIDIT_stoc
k_taking_SFS_EN.docx
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/112_Sustainable_Food_Systems/Glofoods_s
tock_taking_SFS_EN.docx
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/112_Sustainable_Food_Systems/Zero%20w
aste_stock_taking_SFS_EN.docx
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/112_Sustainable_Food_Systems/Agrimond
e_stock_taking_SFS_EN.docx
- our participation form, attached.
Regards
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Scientific Director Food, Nutrition, Bioeconomy
INRA
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/INRA_Feed_back_form_SFS_EN.docx
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/INRA_Participation_in_SFS_programm
e.docx
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Jochen Krimphoff, Fondation WWF-France
Dear Madam or Sir,
Please find enclosed WWF's comments in reponse to the consultation on the proposed 10YFP
Sustainable Food Systems Programme and related stocktacking exercise.
Our submission contains four documents:

the feedback form with our comments on the proposed draft (attached);

three stocktaking forms with three WWF flagship programmes in connection with
Sustainable Food Systems (SFS): our market transformation initiative, the LiveWell for Life
initiative and the FishForward initiative.
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/112_Sustainable_Food_Systems/WWF%20
stock_taking_SFS_EN%20Fishforward.docx
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/112_Sustainable_Food_Systems/WWF%20
stock_taking_SFS_EN%20Livewell.docx
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/112_Sustainable_Food_Systems/WWF%20
stock_taking_SFS_EN_MTI.docx
We would like to apologize for the slight delay (which due to IT related technical reasons) and
hope you will still be able to consider our comments and stocktaking contributions.
I remain at your disposal should you require any further information in connection to our
submission.
Jochen Krimphoff
Directeur adjoint, relations internationales et développement
Deputy Director - International relations & development
Fondation WWF-France (World Wide Fund for Nature)
Bois de Boulogne | 1 carrefour de Longchamp | F-75016 Paris | France
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Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/WWF%20Feed_back_form_10YFP%2
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Kelliane Fuscaldi,
Cooperativismo, Brazil
Secretaria
de
Desenvolvimento
Agropecuário
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Please find enclosed this last form from one of our coordinations in the requirement of the
Secretariat of Agricultural And Cooperative Development (SDC)/ Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock
and Food Supply (MAPA) to participate in the 10YFP-SFSP.
Kind regards
Kelliane
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/10YFP%20SFSP%20Stocktaking%20
Form_Elvison.docx
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FAO Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction, Italy
Since 2011, the FAO Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction (also called SAVE FOOD),
together with the private sector trade fair organizer Messe Düsseldorf GmbH (Germany), works in
partnership with public entities, the private sector and civil society for: (i) awareness raising; (ii)
collaboration and coordination of worldwide initiatives; (iii) evidence-based policy, strategy and
programme development; and (iv) technical support to programmes and projects.
FAO is collaborating with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the
World Food Programme (WFP) for the Global Community of Practice for Reduction of Food Losses.
The Organization will compile the Global Food Loss Index to estimate loss ratios in countries
(dynamic predictions are supported, i.e. estimates can be continuously updated) and has designed
the food supply chain case study methodology for the food subsectors in developing countries. The
methodology, covering (i) screening, (ii) sampling and survey, (iii) synthesis and final report, has
been tested in 2013 in Kenya.
In October 2013, the World Resources Institute (WRI) launched the design of the Food Loss and
Waste Measurement Protocol. FAO is a member of the Steering Committee, provides and facilitates
technical support and a global harmonized approach.
In January 2013, FAO and UNEP launched the Think.Eat.Save (TES) Campaign (as part of SAVE
FOOD and of the FAO/UNEP Sustainable Food Systems Programme) and in May 2014 published the
Prevention and reduction of food and drink waste in businesses and households – Guidance for
governments, local authorities, businesses and other organizations Version 1.0. focused on
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designing effective food waste prevention programmes with governments, local authorities, private
companies, institutions and civil society for the retail, hospitality and food service supply chains.
FAO, IFAD, WFP and UNEP work closely for the 5th element on “zero food loss or waste” of the Zero
Hunger Challenge.
For more information and to join SAVE FOOD, see http://www.fao.org/save-food/en/
Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction (also called SAVE FOOD)
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Charbel Mahfoud, Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED),
Lebanon
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please find attached, AFED Secretary General Mr. Najib Saab’s filled in forms of FAO public
consultation of the Programme on Sustainable Food Systems. Mr. Alexandre Meybeck invited Mr.
Saab to participate in the consultation.
Also attached, form of expressions of interest of AFED to participate in the Programme and 2
initiatives that AFED have done in this field.
Please confirm receiving the 4 files.
Regards,
Charbel
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/112_Sustainable_Food_Systems/stock_taki
ng_SFS_EN-AFED-Food%20Security%20.docx
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/files/112_Sustainable_Food_Systems/stock_taki
ng_SFS_EN-AFED-sustainable-consumption.docx
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_ENAFED.docx
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_EN-NajibSaabAFED.docx
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Laura Patricia Brenes Peralta, Escuela de Agronegocios, TEC, Costa Rica
Dear 10YFP-SFSP Moderator & Mr, Dernini
I attach the completed forms available in the public FAO/UNEP consultation.
Regards and thanks for your attention.
Laura B
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_EN_
Peralta.docx
Feedback form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Feed_back_form_SFS_EN_Peralta.docx
Stocktaking form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/stock_taking_SFS_EN_Peralta.docx
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GS1 AISBL, Belgium
Feedback from GS1.
Participation form:
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/Participation_in_SFS_programme_jbr.
docx
Making Sustainability Business Strategies a Reality with GS1 Standards
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/GS1_Sustainability_POV_A4_011215%
20%283%29%20final.pdf
METRO GROUP Visibility from Catch to Customer
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/resources/gs1_metro_traceability_sustainability_
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