Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Dear colleagues in CFS-HLPE,

The partners and Chair of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL) would like to thank you for this opportunity to comment on this report.

Kindly find enclosed three types of contributions:

• Suggestions to improve the text in Box 9, page 35 of the report, regarding the Global Agenda’s description;
• Suggested text to include a box on the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, one of our partners that is implementing an important MSP initiative in the beef sector;
• Two representative sets of responses by our partners to the the main questions to be addressed, identified by the HLPE

Best regards,

Eduardo

Eduardo Arce Díaz

M. Caron,

Kindly consider the attached submission.

-Bill Jeffery

Dear CFS colleagues,

Attached, kindly find WFO written comments on the zero draft HLPE report.

Thank you.

Luisa Volpe

Dear Colleagues,

I attach a response to this draft from the CGIAR System Organisation.

The  comment is structured according to the 6 Questions raised by the HLPE for this e-consultation. I hope that these observations are useful in contributing to strengthening the next version of this important report.

regards,

Rod Cooke

Thank you HLPE project team for such an enormous task you accomplished. My only contribution is regarding promotion of bee farming or honey production, as it may. This industry has potential to contribute directly to improved nutrition through domestic consumption of the honey and income generation through honey sales. To promote the industry, land that is not suitable for agricultural production and has been left fallow over years in Africa could be turned into bee farms. Disused mining land could also be turned into massive bee farms.  There are  a number of possibilities within bee farming for smallholder farming households in Africa.

Dear HLPE

Thank you for giving us a chance to give give feed-back and input into this report.

Although it is clearly defined, we at Active Remedy believe that far greater emphasis needs to be given to the fresh water element of the FSN section of this report, as this underpins all long-term outcomes and success. A great many FAO Reports have identified and recommended this approach throughout the last 20 or more years.

“The concept of “water for FSN” designates water’s direct and indirect contributions to food security and nutrition in its four dimensions. It covers safe drinking water and sanitation, water used to produce, transform, and prepare food, as well as the contribution of water uses in all sectors to livelihoods and income and as such to food accessibility.

“Ensure sustainable management and conservation of ecosystems for the continued availability, quality and stability of water for FSN”

 http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/hlpe/hlpe_documents/HLPE_Reports/HLPE-Report-11_EN.pdf

“Water is a renewable resource. Although the amount of precipitation falling on the land surface is highly variable in space in time, rainfall can be relied on to replenish reservoirs, the soil profile and aquifers. So water is unlike other natural resources that can be fully depleted (e.g. oil and gas).” (FAO, Coping with water scarcity, 2008) 


http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i3015e/i3015e.pdf

“Ensure continued availability, quality and stability of water for FSN through the conservation and sustainable management of landscapes and ecosystems, across biomes, including by using the ecosystem approach of the Convention on Biological Diversity.” 


 http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/hlpe/hlpe_documents/HLPE_Reports/HLPE-Report-11_EN.pdf

If this crucial area is given greater priority and focus is given to securing and restoring the ecosystems, which maintain the global water cycle, then finances will be naturally created.

“Forests perform vital ecosystem services, including the regulation of the water and carbon cycles and protection of biodiversity, that are essential to sustainable food production and FSN in the long term.”

“Given their important role in water supply and regulation, the protection, sustainable management and restoration of mountain ecosystems will be essential.” (UNESCO, 2013,Climate Change impacts on Mountain Regions of the World.)

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002246/224605M.pdf

Otherwise even more finances and effort will be lost in continuously trying to deal with the on going damage and loss brought about by water scarcity issues and related disasters.

“FAO’s primary goals in implementing ecosystem-based approaches to land and water management are to equip society and governments with tools to asses, value, enhance and maintain the benefits of ecosystem services; to empower those in charge and users of ecosystems to better maintain and restore ecosystem services; and to strengthen governance for ecosystem approaches support through dialogue and policy actions, including the recognition of the rights of local communities and their knowledge systems.” ” (FAO Submission to the UNFCCC in the areas of ecosystems under the Nairobi work programme, 2016)

https://unfccc.int/files/parties_observers/submissions_from_observers/application/pdf/784.pdf

“Forests perform vital ecosystem services, including the regulation of the water and carbon cycles and protection of biodiversity, that are essential to sustainable food production and FSN in the long term.”

http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7395e.pdf

Active Remedy Ltd has created a ground plan for fast effective reforestation efforts throughout the world’s mountain regions. This considers FSN for local communities, improving ecosystem conditions and the reduction of poverty for about 25% of the worlds population. Also it is an inexpensive and effective cost saving method in real terms.

http://www4.unfccc.int/sites/nwp/pages/item.aspx?ListItemId=25551&ListUrl=/sites/nwp/Lists/MainDB

Thank you for your attention and consideration

 Thanks for providing us an opportunity to access and comment on this very important report prepared by the HLPE.

The report no doubt will be an important means to bring all of us together to address the issue of Food Security,by helping us to understand the need for having the right kind of MSPs,willing to work together, over a considerable period of time,in a sustained manner to achieve the well-defined objectives and common public interest of ensuring FOOD Security, by overcoming all challenges.

Given below are the few comments and observations,we wish to share or raise 

1) The need to consider and re-examine many more ways or basis of forming the clusters of MSPs, than just the once defined in the draft report. 

For example it's very important to understand the driving force or the reason behind the formation of MSPs and absence of any power dynamics ( due to status,funds,etc.)so that all Partners have a good understanding and consensus about the common goal (public interest )and have the freedom and faith to work in harmony.

2)    Page 48 of the draft report ,highlights Figure 3- MSPs for FSN: a logic model .

Here we wish to suggest that few important activities are to be included in the ACTIVITY column,like

Revival of good cultural and traditional knowledge and practices across borders to redefine our consumption patterns and to minimize food wastages.

 Re-examination of present lifestyle and shift to sustainable lifestyle through behavioural change as part of energizing and empowering activities. 

Optimal ulitization or management of available resources ( natural,capital,financial and Human)  

Capacity building and training shoud be a specific part of Enabing activities

Communication and Cultural bonding as part of Engaging activities

3) It is also to be emphasised here that a special reference to the 10YFP Sustainable Food System (SFS) Programme, be made in the report. 

Though being a relatively new MSP, 10YFP SFS programme has proven to be efficient it number of ways, in particular in pooling existing resources and promoting new partnerships and synergies. It is one of the most inclusive MSP in relation to FSN at the global level, with mixed government / non-government co-leadership and an advisory committee composed of five stakeholder clusters and that strives for regional balance. 

In addition, the 10YFP SFS Programme’s mandate is based on the Rio+20 outcome document, and the Programme reports to ECOSOC and the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). The implementation of the 10YFP itself is enshrined in SDG 12.1.

Hence, it's important  that the 10YFP SFS Programme be included as a key example of an MSP in the area of FSN in this report. 

 Please excuse the delay in submitting our comments.Hope our submission are helpful in some way.

Thanks and best wishes ,   

Dear HLPE Team,

Thanks for the great work you are championing on MSPs. We are convinced the outcome of the consultations and the final report will significantly contribute to realising the objectives of the 10FYP and FNS in the world.

In addition to ICED's case study (see attachment) and proposal that we learn from the Market Oriented Agricultural Project being financed by the European Union (EU), the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Government of the Republic of Ghana, we also wish to suggest that it may be useful to glean useful insights from the below references on multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable agriculture:

1. Laurent C. Glin et al. (2014). Governing the Orgais Cocoa Network from Ghana: Towards Hybrid Governenance rrangemens? Journal of Agrarian Change, April 2014; DOI:10.1111/joac.12059.

2. World Economic Forum (2016). Building Partnerships for Sustainable Agricultural and Food Security: A Guide to Country-Led Action,

www3.weforum.org/docs/IP/2016/NVAGGuidetoCounryLevel/Action.pdf

Finally, ICED is committed to actively participate in this dialogue and to share specific relevant case studies on PSPs in Ghana and Africa over time.

Best regards.

Emmanuel Boon

Dear HLPE Colleagues,

Please find attached my comments on 'O Draft of the Report: Multi-stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) to Finance and Improve Food Security and Nutrition in the Framework of the 2030 Agenda'. 

Very best,

Josh Brem-Wilson

Research Fellow

Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience

Coventry University

UK 

Dear HLPE,

You will find enclosed the description of GISA as part of MSPs case studies.

GISA is the Groupe Interministériel pour la Sécurité Alimentaire, Interministerial Group on Food Security.

Best regards,

Oriane Barthélemy