Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Re: Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition in the context of urbanization and rural transformation – V0 draft of the HLPE-FSN report #19

Dear FSN Moderator

Congratulations to the first draft. In the attached file, I have included a comment by Prof. Johan Six, Sustainable Agroecosystems, ETH Zürich. Prof. Six is the pricipal investigator of the project "The Rural-Urban Nexus: Establishing a Nutrient Loop to Improve City Region Food System Resilience (RUNRES)"  that aims to set a key step in the transformation towards a circular and more sustainable agriculture and waste management. The project is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. I fully share the comments of Prof. Six and believe that a case study, (to be eg. provided in a seperate box), on innovations to establish a circular bioeconomy in the urban and peri-urban food system would add value to the report.

Dr. Manfred Kaufmann, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation