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
Dr. Harry Donkers
Innonet
Type:
Ministry;
Local authority
University/ Scientific/Research
Business organization
NGO or not-for-profit
Financial Institution
Other (please specify): Independent
researcher
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
hdonkers@ziggo.nl
Irenestraat 3-H, 5141 GJ, Waalwijk, The Netherlands
Telephone+31 6 28638919
Fax
Country The Netherlands
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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
Yes
Note, does it adequately identify the
x No
main global challenges for
sustainable food systems?
The challenges are a bit too general. More explicit mentioning of
social and environmental challenges, apart from the economic
ones. Explicit mentioning of the role and potential of small scale
agriculture and food, apart from global agri-food chains. A better
view on regionalization: local, regional, interregional or national,
cross-regional, global.
Having reviewed the proposed
Yes
Vision and Goal, do they adequately
x No
address the needs of the global
programme?
Vision: Why a negative formulation? Thta is not necessary,. A
positive formulation has more strength.
Gioal: Explicit mentioning of the local level.
Having reviewed the proposed
objectives, do they adequately
address the needs of the global
programme?
Objectives should also include: applying a systems approach to
addressing social and environmental aspects
Yes
xNo
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Programme Objectives
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Suggested Text Change
Additional Feedback
(check the box)
(Please insert your text)
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Programme Objective 1: Raise
awareness on the need to shift to
sustainable food systems and applying
a systems approach to addressing
food security and nutrition.
Also applying a systems
approach to addressing
social and environmental
health
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: Take
Adding of both small-scale
and large scale practices
stock of, categorize and disseminate –
and if needed develop – accessible and
actionable information tools and
methodologies to support governments,
the private sector, consumers and other
relevant stakeholders to act towards
more sustainable food systems.
Programme Objective 4: Bring
Not only systainable but
explicit mentioning of food
security (Sustainable food
security)
Adding explicit mentioning of
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Programme Objectives
Provide Your Feedback
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?
cooperation between levels
en regions
Select One
x Yes
No
Yes
x No
Provide Your Additional Comments
Mentioning explicit ‘food sovereignty’ als a goal, including the
consequence the food sovereignty could imply legitimate policy
objectives that could maintain certain tariffs and quantitative
restrictions in international trade.
Stimulating a network approach.
Modernization of small-scale agriculture and food, including
processing and marketing at farm level.
Increasing regional capacities
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Programme Work Areas
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Suggested Text Change
Additional Feedback
(Please insert your text)
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Programme Work Areas
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(check the box)
Special attention for ways of
production and farm
mangement practices using
organic manure for creating
and maintaining fertile soils.
Stimulating innovative ways
of production as linking crop
production and dairy farming
Implementing effective
governance structures with
all relavant parties incluidng
consumers and citizens
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.
Stimulating not only a chain
approach, but also a
network approach, but
parties as environmental
and social services networks
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
(Please insert your text)
Select One
Provide Your Additional Comments
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Are there other work areas you
think should have priority, if so,
what?
Can you propose priority activities
under the Work Areas, if so, what?
x Yes
No
Facilitate lead-farms or lead-initiatives and use succesful examples
as models for colleague farmers and initiatives, like the Organic
food chain in Krasnodar, the Program Fome Zero in Belo Horizonte
Brazil.
Yes
x No
Other Feedback on the document
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Reference
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Provide Your Feedback
Including ‘local’ after ‘supporting’
Add: food sovereignty
Instead of: ‘are not compromised’ use the words:‘are realised’.
Replace: ‘more sustainable food systems’ by: ‘sustainable food security’.
Add; local
Add: social and environmental health
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