Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Re: What are the barriers and opportunities for scientists and other knowledge holders to contribute to informing policy for more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems?

2. Knowlege production:

 What actions do you take to align your research to problems and challenges faced by agrifood systems?

Include operationalize objectives to find out optimal solutions for the development of the system. Then make recommendations for policy makers.

 In what ways are the research questions in your sphere of work framed by academic interests and/or funders’ focus?

Academic interest

  • To what extent do you feel research and policy-making communities in your sphere of work are united in their understanding of the challenges facing agrifood systems? 

In my experience they are working parallel way like railway lines.

  • To what extent do you work across disciplines and/or draw on expertise from academic and non-academic actors including Indigenous Peoples and small-scale producers?

I always work with them because indigenous knowledge is more important to me shape and revisit my recommendations.

  • To what extent, and in what ways, is your research co-produced with other knowledge holders and non-academic-stakeholders important for informing policy in agrifood systems?

It is important, sometimes research recommendations may not address the inherent situation of the problem. I mean some cultural and norms are with community can be extracted through IK to optimize the solution.  for ex. most of the time with perishable commodities theoretical perspectives do not work as it is, then IK is important to make policies to address the isses.