Monday, October 10, 2022

The FAO and CIRAD Food Systems Assessments

Committee on World Food Security CFS 50 MAIN EVENT

10 October 2022. Ministerial Segment: Coordinating policy responses to the global food crisis – The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022. 

CFS 50 featured a full-day ministerial segment on coordinating policy responses to the global food crisis; endorse Policy Recommendations on Promoting Youth Engagement and Employment in Agriculture and Food Systems; and focus on boosting responsible investment in sustainable agriculture and food systems through. 

The FAO Chief Economist MaximoTorero  presented the SOFI 2022 Report - The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022. Repurposing food and agricultural policies to make healthy diets more affordable - to the CFS50 Plenary.
Additionally, the Plenary celebrated the International Day of Rural Women; reviewed the work of CFS and its HLPE toward 2030; and kickstarted the workstream on data collection and analysis for food security and nutrition.

10 - 13 October 2022. Committee on World Food Security CFS 50 - a selection from the SIDE EVENTS SCHEDULE

13 October 2022. 13.30-14.45 CET - CFS50 Side Event. Diversified Food production and diet: The challenges of transition to more sustainable agrifood systems

The global food production per inhabitant has continuously increased for several years, and exceeds now nutritional requirements. Agrifood systems are under several simultaneous threats resulting in multiple crises related to keeping food imports either at levels ensuring food security, or to maintaining production systems highly dependent on inputs and energy. Unsustainable production systems and changes in land-use are both threatening biodiversity and affecting the production diversity and nutritional quality.  At the same time, increased consumption of energy-dense foodstuffs reduces food diversity and leads to malnutrition.

This is why, in 2021, the EU, the FAO and CIRAD initiated Food Systems Assessments (FSA) in 50 countries to explore in a systematic and holistic way the current challenges faced by agrifood systems. 

Panel discussion:
  • obstacles to the re-diversification of food and production systems, notably in historically export oriented regions;
  • diversified production systems but lack of diversity of diets due to affordability of nutritious food; and
  • agrifood systems strongly shaped by mono-cropping in staple food and diversified agrifood systems rooted in indigenous regimes.   
Panel:
  • James Tefft, Senior Economist, FAO Investment Centre
  • Willem Olthof,  Deputy Head of Unit, Sustainable Agri-food Systems and Fisheries, European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA)
  • Meeta Punjabi FAO Investment Center
  • Ninon Sirdey CIRAD on the FSA results
  • Ms. Elizabeth Nsimadala, Agripreneur, President of Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF)
  • Mr Watson Puiahi, Founder and Director, ILukim Sustainability Solomon Islands (ISSI)
  • Mr Julian May, Director, NRF-DST Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
  • Ms Francess Piagie Alghali , Minister of State, Office of the Vice President, Sierra Leone
  • Mr Paul Newnham, Director, SDG2 Advocacy hub
Shared resources:
Find all publications on the FSA website: https://www.fao.org/support-to-investment/our-work/projects/fsa2021/en/

https://www.fao.org/3/cb9001en/cb9001en.pdf - hello to all. The link above is a recent publication/guideline from FAO Investment Centre (2022) on "how to" facilitate investments in youth in agrifood systems in Africa. Do have a look - and use!!

Hello to everyone, the FAO publication below is addressing in more detail what Chapter 4 of the Investment Centre publication discusses. It also focusses on Elisabeth's point on youth and access to factors of production.  It's entitled "Youth-sensitive value chain analysis and development"(FAO 2022).  https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cb8489en/  Good session! Heiko


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