International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty - Global
In general, the IPC working group on agricultural biodiversity is very positive to the creation of these guidelines. From the different regions the common aspects are:
- Regarding the objectives
- Align the objectives with the objectives of the SSF Guidelines and VGGTs.
- Considering also the milk sector.
- The Guidelines should look at the public policies. It should create a legal framework that could be easily replicated in national policy frameworks.
- Consider to start from a mapping of practices of small-scale food producers in livestock and the already existing policies at national level that protect smal-scale food producers or pastoralists.
- Regarding the scope
- For the small-scale livestock, it would be important to keep the FAO references used already in the 1st report.
- It is important to also use the UNDROP and UNDRIP as framework to define the small-scale livestock.
- Consider the issue of scale of food producers: small-scale food producers cannot follow all the laws applied to the agro-industry system.
- Regarding the nature
- Voluntary Guidelines are fine for two main reasons: easier negotiations on one hand, and on the other, better implementation to the national and local context.
- The guidelines on small-scale livestock should be considered as complementary to the SSF Guidelines and the VGGTs.
- Regarding the process
- Follow as much as possible the processes followed by the SSF Guidelines and VGGTs.
- Important to facilitate autonomous processes of Civil Society Organizations, that might ensure the gender and geographical balance.
- The process should follow the Guidelines for Ensuring Balanced Representation of Civil Society in FAO and the FAO Strategy for Partnership with CSOs.
Mr. Stefano Mori