SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS PROGRAMME OF THE
10-YEAR FRAMEWORK OF PROGRAMMES ON
SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION (10YFP)
FEEDBACK FORM
NOTE TO ALL:
Please use this form to provide your general and more specific comments as indicated
below, for the proposed 10YFP Sustainable Food Systems draft concept note.
NB** all contributions received will be taken into account as much as possible. Due to limited capacity, we
will unfortunately not be in a position to inform respondents (individuals &/or organizations) on how their
suggestions have or have not been included in the final programme that will be submitted to the 10YFP
secretariat. Thank you for your understanding.
INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATIONAL CONTACT INFORMATION
Name and Title
Organization
Adam Drewnowski
Center for Public Health Nutrition, Univ. of Washington
Type: Higher education
Ministry;
Local authority
X University/ Scientific/Research
Business organization
NGO or not-for-profit
Financial Institution
Other (please specify):
Regional Organisation
National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC)
Primary Producers Organization (e.g. farmers,
pastoralists, fisherfolk)
Indigenous group or community based
organization
Media
Inter-governmental organization
United Nations agency or programme
Email
Mailing address
adamdrew@uw.edu
305 Raitt Hall #353410, Seattle, WA 98195-3410
Telephone 1206 543 8016
Fax 1 206 685 1696
Country USA
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Instructions: Please provide your feedback for each of the proposed questions on the Sustainable Food
Systems Programme by completing the following matrix. If you do not have any comments please check
the “No comment” box.
General “Sustainable Food Systems” Programme Feedback
Feedback Question
Select One
Provide Your Additional Comments
Having reviewed the draft Concept X Yes
Note, does it adequately identify the
No
main global challenges for
sustainable food systems?
It needs to be made clear that food systems are not “sustainable”
unless they provide adequate nutrients as well as calories. Is the
concept note sufficiently clear on that point?
Having reviewed the proposed
Yes
Vision and Goal, do they adequately
X No
address the needs of the global
programme?
The visión focuses on partnerships and protecting natural
resources now and in the future - all good points – but some foods
with low carbón footprint are not that nutritious (e.g. sugar) – so I
would continue to stress the central role of nutritin and health in all
of this.
Having reviewed the proposed
objectives, do they adequately
address the needs of the global
programme?
I would like to see more emphasis on the development of
sustainability metrics. Having an open-source inventory of data is
clearly a prerequisite (line 158) – and there is much to be said for
data collection (line 161) – but the development of metrics is the
next step. They will not créate themselves.
X Yes
No
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Provide Your Feedback
Programme Objectives
Programme Objective 1:
Programme Objective 2: Build
capacity and enabling conditions for
the uptake of sustainable practices
across food systems and facilitate
access to financial and technical
assistance.
Programme Objective 3:
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Raise awareness on the need to
shift to food systems that are
both nutritious and socially,
environmentally and
economically sustainable and
apply a systems approach to
global food and nutrition
security.
Assess, categorize and
disseminate actionable data and
develop new metrics and
methodologies to support
governments, the private sector,
consumers and other relevant
stakeholders to act towards more
sustainable food systems.
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Programme Objectives
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Programme Objective 4: Bring
together initiatives and develop
partnerships to build synergies and
cooperation to leverage resources
towards the mutual goal of
promoting, enhancing and facilitating
the shift towards more sustainable
food systems
Feedback Question
Are there additional fundamental
objectives that the programme
should respond to in your view?
Having reviewed the proposed
work areas, do they adequately
address the needs of the global
programme?
Bring together initiatives and
develop public-private and
other partnerships to build
synergies and cooperation to
leverage resources towards
the mutual goal of promoting,
enhancing and facilitating the
shift towards more sustainable
food systems
Select One
X Yes
Line 120 was the only
mention of the agro-food
industry. Is that enough?
Provide Your Additional Comments
The development of suitable metrics seems to fit under 1, 2, or 3 –
sort of – could it be made more of a goal?
No
Yes
No
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Programme Work Areas
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Programme Work Areas
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Use public-private partnerships to
Increase the availability,
accessibility and sharing of
actionable knowledge,
information and tools for SCP.
Programme Work Area 1: Increase
the availability, accessibility and sharing
of actionable knowledge, information and
tools for SCP.
Programme Work Area 2:
Encourage, facilitate and support
inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogue to
help inform interconnected policymaking
towards sustainable food systems at
local, national, regional and international
levels.
Programme Work Area 3: Facilitate
the use and enhance opportunities for
market-based and/or voluntary
approaches throughout supply chain
towards sustainable food systems.
Feedback Question
Are there other work areas you
think should have priority, if so,
what?
Select One
X Yes
No
Provide Your Additional Comments
There are some mentions of the food industry but not much (line
120). I am assuming that “multi stakeholder” and “market-based”
are code words for industry involvement. How successful can a
programme be without industry engagement?
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Can you propose priority activities
under the Work Areas, if so, what?
X Yes
No
Back to the need for metrics in multiple domains – nutrient density,
cost, social acceptance, land, energy and wáter use, greenhouse
gas emissions, labor etc. Have they all been worked out?
Other Feedback on the document
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Reference
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