With respect to your request for thoughts on the selection and prioritization of food security and nutrition issues the Committee on World Food Security should address in the biennium 2016-2017 and how, I would recommend conducting in parallel two investigations and then combining their results and recommendations by a third
The first one would address the issue of how to increase food supply including, but not limited to, prices, infrastructure and sustainable agricultural practises. The second would address the issue of access to sufficient food (in terms of quantity and quality). Assuming attractive prices are a necessary condition for increased food supply, a third task force would then seek how to bridge the gap between remunerative farm prices and access to quality food for the poorest.
If the FAO can thus suggest a set of policies to reconcile and achieve these ideals, governments could then measure their own efforts against them.
Patrick Henry Dominique Chatenay
Dear FSN Moderator,
With respect to your request for thoughts on the selection and prioritization of food security and nutrition issues the Committee on World Food Security should address in the biennium 2016-2017 and how, I would recommend conducting in parallel two investigations and then combining their results and recommendations by a third
The first one would address the issue of how to increase food supply including, but not limited to, prices, infrastructure and sustainable agricultural practises. The second would address the issue of access to sufficient food (in terms of quantity and quality). Assuming attractive prices are a necessary condition for increased food supply, a third task force would then seek how to bridge the gap between remunerative farm prices and access to quality food for the poorest.
If the FAO can thus suggest a set of policies to reconcile and achieve these ideals, governments could then measure their own efforts against them.
Best regards,
Patrick Chatenay
Director, ProSunergy (UK)