Dear FSN Forum,
Thank you for sharing the draft version on political outcome on Nutrition on 12 may 2014 which is comprehensive and contains a reflects a strong political commitment to ensure enhanced situation on every aspect of nutritional health.However i miss an explicit commitment on special investment on tracking indigenous food habits of people of developing countries which is vital for their survival during difficult climatic condition and food insecurity situation. Thus rural women's knowledge about locally available nature based source of food might be marginalized by giving much weight to externally supplied food. In countries with very poor infrastructure for transport,food supply remains unsecured and irregular which imply that those remote people cannot have equal access to food like others from geographically privileged. In such situation,recognition to locally available food source is important, however due to lack of required attention for investment in research and development in this aspect, there has been a huge gap between local knowledge and managing food security measures of public agencies. I pledge that the document needs to give importance to this issue as an essential aspect of sustainability of food security chain.
My comments are also included in the template attached.
Thanks and regards
Kanchan Lama
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Specialist (Freelancer)
Member, BoD, WOCAN (www.wocan.org)
Kanchan Lama