Tackling Food Security
in the Post 2015 agenda :
the High Level Panel proposals
www.post2015hlp.org
January 2014
Background
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July 2012 : UNSG convened a High-Level Panel to advise
him on a bold and practical development agenda beyond
2015.
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27 Eminent Persons, 3 cochairs : President Yudhoyono
(Indonesia), President Sirleaf (Liberia), and Prime Minister
Cameron (United Kingdom).
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May 30, 2013 : report submission. Overall objective :
ending extreme poverty through sustainable
development within one generation.
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Special Event on MDGs/Post-2015, September 25, 2013 :
UNSG’s report submitted to the General Assembly
strongly reflects the HLP’s vision and ambition.
Consultations
 5000 civil society organizations in 120 countries in
every region
 250 companies in 30 countries, with annual revenues
exceeding $8 trillion
 Thematic, regional, and country consultations all over
the world
Business-as-usual is not an option
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8 billion by 2030 - 9 by 2050 : more urban, middle class,
interdependent, vulnerable, constrained in resources, older.
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Half the world’s poor live in conflict-affected countries that
need capable and responsive institutions.
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Carbon emissions must be reduced below today’s voluntary
pledges to avoid a 4-degree Celsius scenario.
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Natural disasters cost since 2000 : $2.5 trillion. Environmental
assets are under threat
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BUT growth, technologies and scaling up proven solutions
offer huge opportunities for sustainable development
A shared vision
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High ambition: ending extreme poverty in all its forms
(finishing the job) in the context of sustainable development
and having building blocks of sustained prosperity for all
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A paradigm shift: a single, universal and transformative
agenda, addressing economic growth, social equality and
environmental sustainability and actionable by all countries
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Strong principles : equity, sustainability, solidarity, respect for
humanity and shared responsibilities in accordance with
respective capabilities
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New spirit : solidarity, mutual respect and mutual benefit
going beyond aid and beyond governments
5 Priority Transformative Shifts
1.
Leave No One Behind
2.
Put Sustainable Development at the Core
3.
Transform Economies for Jobs and Inclusive
Growth
4.
Build Peace and Effective, Open and
Accountable Public Institutions
5.
Forge a New Global Partnership
1. Leave No One Behind
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Reaching everyone : a radical commitment to equality
and non-discrimination
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Equality of opportunity at the heart of post-2015 :
indicators should be disaggregated and tracked with
respect to income (especially for the bottom 20%),
gender, location, age, people living with disabilities, and
relevant social group
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Targets will only be considered ‘achieved’ if they are
met for all relevant income and social groups
2. Put Sustainable Development at
the Core
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Slow the alarming pace of climate change and
environmental degradation, which pose
unprecedented threats to humanity
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Sustainable consumption and production patterns
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Put in place taxes, subsidies and regulations to
encourage sustainable development
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Develop global standards of certification and
compliance programs for sustainable development
3. Transform Economies for Jobs and
Inclusive Growth
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Providing economic opportunities and harness innovation,
technology, and the potential of business and of people
themselves
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Conditions for good and decent jobs
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Add value and raise productivity through infrastructure and
other investments driving economic structural changes
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Set a stable and simple regulatory environment :
accountabilities for business to pay fair taxes and account for
its activities social, financial and environmental impact
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Support sustainable consumption and production patterns
4. Build Peace and Effective, Open and
Accountable Public Institutions
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Freedom from conflict and violence : foundation for
building peaceful and prosperous societies
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Peace and good governance : core elements of wellbeing, not an optional extra
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Transparency : support rule of law, freedom of speech
and the media, open political choice and access to
justice
5. A New Global Partnership
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Working together : investment in the long-term
prosperity of all
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New mind-sets and behaviour to merge environmental
and development agendas
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Recognize different solutions for different contexts—
national and sub-national—in a country-owned agenda
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Engage stakeholders to go beyond aid
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Establish partnerships for implementation and
accountability
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Ensure more and better long-term finance
Illustrative Goals
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12.
End Poverty
Empower Girls and Women and Achieve Gender Equality
Provide Quality Education and Lifelong Learning
Ensure Healthy Lives
Ensure Food Security and Good Nutrition
Achieve Universal Access to Water and Sanitation
Secure Sustainable Energy
Create Jobs, Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth
Manage Natural Resource Assets Sustainability
Ensure Good Governance and Effective Institutions
Ensure Stable and Peaceful Societies
Create a Global Enabling Environment and Catalyse Long-Term Finance
Potential Impact
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1.2 billion fewer people hungry and in extreme poverty
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100 million more children who would otherwise have died before they were five
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4.4 million more women who would otherwise have died during pregnancy or childbirth
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1.3 billion tons of food per year saved from going to waste
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470 million more workers with good jobs and livelihoods
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200 million more young people employed with the skills they need to get good work
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1.2 billion more people connected to electricity
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190 to 240 million hectares more of forest cover
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$30 trillion spent by governments worldwide transparently accounted for
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Average global temperatures on a path to stabilize at less than 2° C above pre-industrial
levels
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220 million fewer people who suffer crippling effects of natural disasters
A global approach to food security
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All our main challenges impact food security & its 4 pillars :
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demographic pressure : about 50% more food needed by 2030
urbanisation
Inequalities : 70% poor people are in rural areas, women first victims
while they are account for 60 to 80% of farmers
climate change, increase frequency of natural disasters
biodiversity and environmental degradation, fish stocks reduction
financial instability (commodity price volatility)…
 Universal challenge : obesity killing three times as many as
malnutrition, The Lancet, Dec. 2012
 Food security impact all the other goals : poverty, health,
gender…
 Global approach for both a dedicated goal focus on
outcome and mainstreaming this challenges. ex : nexus food
security, water, energy
Transformative shifts for food security
✓ Leave No One Behind :
- Right based approach
- Global minimum standards : “zero hunger goal, UNSG initiative.
- Indicators to be disaggregated
✓ Put Sustainable Development at the Core :
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promote SCP (sustainable agri; waste reduction…)
« climate friendly agriculture »
biodiversity and environment protection et restoration
inclusive agriculture
✓ Transform Economies for Jobs and Inclusive Growth:
- increase sustainable agriculture productivity
- promote access to innovation for all
- target especially small holders yields and woman
✓ Forge a New Global Partnership:
- Ensure more and better long-term finance, beyond aid.
- ensure fair trade system for agriculture
- regulate finance to tackle commodity price volatility
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Goal 3: Ensure Food Security
and Good Nutrition
 End hunger and protect the right of everyone to have access to sufficient,
safe, affordable, and nutritious food
 Reduce by x% stunting, wasting by y%, and anemia by z% for all children
under five
 Increase agricultural productivity by x%, with a focus on sustainably
increasing smallholder yields and access to irrigation
 Adopt sustainable agricultural, ocean and freshwater fishery practices and
rebuild designated fish stocks to sustainable levels
 Reduce postharvest loss and food waste by x%
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Availibity : sufficient production
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Goal 3: Ensure Food Security and Good Nutrition
 End hunger and protect the right of everyone to have access to sufficient food
 Increase agricultural productivity by x%, with a focus on sustainably increasing
smallholder yields and access to irrigation
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Goal 1: End Poverty
 Increase by x% the share of women and men, communities, and businesses with
secure rights to land, property, and other assets
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Goal 2: Empower Girls and Women and Achieve Gender Equality
 Ensure equal right of women to own and inherit property, sign a contract, register a
business and open a bank account
 Eliminate discrimination against women in political, economic, and public life
Availibity : sufficient production
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Goal 8: Create Jobs, Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth
 Strengthen productive capacity by providing universal access to financial services and
infrastructure such as transportation and ICT
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Goal 12 : Global Enabling Environment - Catalyse Long-Term Finance
 Support an open, fair and development-friendly trading system, substantially reducing
trade-distorting measures, including agricultural subsidies, while improving market
access of developing country products
 Promote collaboration on and access to science, technology, innovation, and
development data
Availibity : sustainable production
and consumption
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Goal 3: Ensure Food Security and Good Nutrition
 Adopt sustainable agricultural, ocean and freshwater fishery practices and rebuild
designated fish stocks to sustainable levels
 Reduce postharvest loss and food waste by x% (# zero hunger goal aiming at zero loss)
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Goal 9 : Manage Natural Resource Assets Sustainably
 Improve soil quality, reduce soil erosion by x tonnes and combat desertification
Access
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Goal 3: Ensure Food Security and Good Nutrition
 End hunger and protect the right of everyone to have access to sufficient,
safe, affordable, and nutritious food
 desegregated indicator : discriminatory eating habits, urban/rural, income inequalities…
 Reduce by x% stunting, wasting by y%, and anemia by z% for all children
under five
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Goal 4: Ensure Healthy Lives
 End preventable infant and under-5 deaths
Stability
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Goal 3: Ensure Food Security and Good Nutrition
End hunger and protect the right of everyone to have access to sufficient,
safe, affordable, and nutritious food
 Goal 1: End Poverty
Cover x% of people who are poor and vulnerable with social protection
systems2,3
Build resilience and reduce deaths from natural disasters by x%
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Goal 12 : Create a Global Enabling Environment and Catalyse
Long-Term Finance
Implement reforms to ensure stability of the global financial system and
encourage stable, long-term private foreign investment
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Nutritious food
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Goal 3: Ensure Food Security and Good Nutrition
 End hunger and protect the right of everyone to have access to sufficient,
safe, affordable, and nutritious food
 Reduce by x% stunting, wasting by y%, and anemia by z% for all children
under five
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Goal 4: Ensure Healthy Lives
 Ensure Healthy Lives Reduce the burden of disease from HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases and priority noncommunicable diseases (obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
included)
Other related targets
Goal 1: End Poverty
Goal 2: Empower Girls and
Women and Achieve Gender
Equality
 Increase by x% the share of
women and men,
communities, and businesses
with secure rights to land,
property, and other assets2,3
 Ensure equal right of women to own
and inherit property, sign a contract,
register a business and open a bank
account1,2
 Cover x% of people who are
poor and vulnerable with social
protection systems2,3
 Eliminate discrimination against
women in political, economic, and
public life1,2,3
 Build resilience and reduce
deaths from natural disasters
by x%2
Other related targets
Goal 3: Provide Quality
Education and Lifelong Learning
 Increase the number of young
and adult women and men with
the skills, including technical and
vocational, needed for work by
x%2,3
Goal 4: Ensure Healthy Lives
 End preventable infant and
under-5 deaths 1,2
 Reduce the burden of disease
from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis,
malaria, neglected tropical
diseases and priority noncommunicable diseases2
Other related targets
Secure Sustainable Energy
Create Jobs, Sustainable
Livelihoods and Equitable
Growth
 Ensure universal access to
modern energy services1,2
 Increase the number of good
and decent jobs and livelihoods
by x2
 Double the global rate of
improvement in energy efficiency
in buildings, industry, agriculture
and transport
 Decrease the number of young
people not in education,
employment or training by x%2
 Phase out harmful and inefficient
fossil fuel subsidies that
encourage wasteful
consumption1,3
 Strengthen productive capacity
by providing universal access to
financial services and
infrastructure such as
transportation and ICT1,2,3
Other related targets
Goal 9 : Manage Natural
Resource Assets
Sustainably
 Safeguard ecosystems, species
and genetic diversity
 Reduce deforestation by x% and
increase reforestation by y%
 Improve soil quality, reduce soil
erosion by x tonnes and combat
desertification
Goal 12 : Create a Global
Enabling Environment and
Catalyse
SupportLong-Term
an open, fair
and
Finance
development-friendly trading system,
substantially reducing trade-distorting
measures, including agricultural
subsidies, while improving market
access of developing country
products3
 Implement reforms to ensure stability
of the global financial system and
encourage stable, long-term private
foreign investment3
 Promote collaboration on and access
to science, technology, innovation,
and development data3