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: Food Ethics Council
Dan Crossley, Executive
Director
Type:
Ministry;
Local authority
University/ Scientific/Research
Business organization
X NGO or not-for-profit
Financial Institution
Other (please specify):
Email
dan@foodethicscouncil.org
Telephone +44 (0)333 012
4147
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
Mailing address
Food Ethics Council, Kings Cross Hub, 34b York Way,
London, N1 9AB, UK
Fax N/A
Country UK
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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
Having reviewed the draft Concept
Yes
Note, does it adequately identify the
X No
main global challenges for
sustainable food systems?
Having reviewed the proposed
Yes
Vision and Goal, do they adequately
X No
address the needs of the global
programme?
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Provide Your Additional Comments
The draft Concept note does identify many of the key challenges.
However, it would benefit from more explicitly mentioning the
impacts of the diets we eat (and the need to shift towards
sustainable diets), the need for food policy to promote public
health, the urgency of acting to prevent runaway climate change
and the importance of social justice and fairness (“Only a socially
just food system can meet [such] challenges, but considerations of
fairness are largely peripheral to food policy debate, which instead
tends to focus on economic and environmental issues”1).
Whilst the proposed Vision fits with the needs of the global
programme as identified, the language used does not feel very
accessible and it relies on the need for additional definitions (e.g.
what is meant by “all food systems are sustainable”?). Perhaps a
better alternative might be (adapted from our organisational vision):
“A world where everyone eats healthily & within environmental
limits, enjoying food that is produced & traded fairly & humanely”
We believe this is more accessible language and it brings in
additional important elements e.g. farm animal welfare and
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fairness.
The proposed Goal looks reasonable, albeit it is quite general/
high-level. It would be useful to inject a sense of urgency by
including the word ‘accelerate’, so that it reads:
“To promote, enhance, facilitate and accelerate the shift towards
more sustainable food systems”
Having reviewed the proposed
objectives, do they adequately
address the needs of the global
programme?
X Yes
We would argue that aiming activities “towards protecting natural
resources and promoting a more efficient use of natural
resources….” is important, but that it is only one part of achieving
sustainable consumption and production.
Notwithstanding the comments above, the proposed objectives
broadly address the needs of the global programme as defined.
No
Provide Your Feedback
Programme Objectives
No Comment
Suggested Text Change
Additional Feedback
(check the box)
(Please insert your text)
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Programme Objectives
Provide Your Feedback
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.
Suggest adding “urgently”
after “Raise awareness on
the need to….”
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
Suggest adding “(including
consumption”) after “…..
across food systems…..
Suggest changing
“consumers” to “citizens”
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
together initiatives and develop
partnerships to build synergies and
cooperation to leverage resources
towards the mutual goal of
It would be helpful to clarify
who you are trying to raise
awareness amongst…
X
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Programme Objectives
Provide Your Feedback
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?
Select One
X Yes
No
Yes
X No
Provide Your Additional Comments
The programme could perhaps address issues relating to food
affordability and food & poverty. It could explore mechanisms
(policy and other) to square the circle between rising costs/ prices
(with climate change etc and true cost of food) and the need for
people to be able to afford to eat.
The proposed work areas broadly seem sensible. However, they
seem primarily implicitly focused at the production end – and we
would argue that a greater emphasis should be put on sustainable
diets, rather than simply increasing productivity, and on respect for
fairness.
Provide Your Feedback
Programme Work Areas
No Comment
Suggested Text Change
Additional Feedback
(check the box)
(Please insert your text)
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Programme Work Areas
Provide Your Feedback
Programme Work Area 1: Increase
the availability, accessibility and sharing
of actionable knowledge, information and
tools for SCP.
X
(ii) suggest changing to “the
update of new (or existing)
technologies….”
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.
X
As well as focusing too
much on new technologies,
this feels overly focused on
production, rather than
production and consumption
Market-based and/ or
voluntary approaches are
undoubtedly important.
However, we feel this
programme would have the
potential to be much more
transformative if it extended
beyond market-based and
voluntary approaches alone.
It is likely that other
mechanisms (e.g.
regulation) will be needed if
the goal of a sustainable
food system is to be reached
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Feedback Question
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?
Select One
X Yes
Provide Your Additional Comments
We would propose a priority work área on sustainable diets,
including looking at meat consumption and livestock production
No
Yes
X No
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