Sustainable Innovative Food Technologies, Agribusiness to develop new products supported by Industry, Experts, which lead development. Any Franchise aspirant with entrepreneurial spirit, Reconstruction of Rural India by redefining the rural Education System. Education & Health sectors have become Industry now. Innovation, Invention and Integration to discuss the Challenges and opportunities. Promote Government Policies, Networking opportunities to transformation of ingredients produced by farmers into value added food products using state of the art equipment and new technology. Connect potential inventers and partners, Exploring the sustainable solutions. Conduct trainings and awareness campaigns on the impact of climate change to food security, nutrition and human health. Children and youth are not only victims of climate change, they are also valuable contributors to climate action in the context of adaptation and resilience. They are agents of change, entrepreneurship and innovations. A climate safe future is with the youth and children.
Food systems governance can be considered as a value itself for sustainable diets, as implies a way of designing the “architecture” needed to achieve its goals. This means that food governance allows, among other things, an appropriate environment for food systems to transform in order to perform in a sustainable way. Sustainable diets need a context specific approach in terms of the socio-cultural characteristics at different levels, food governance represents a value that can help achieving its objectives focusing on a national/regional scale, meaning local structures of food governance to improve the access to sustainable diets.
How food governance and sustainable diets are related, especially since food governance plays a role in supporting the socio-cultural dimension of sustainable diets. This highlights the question regarding how power is managed by different institutions immersed in food systems and the importance of focusing our attention not only in national/regional levels of governance, but also in how local levels organize their knowledge management and decision-making processes to improve the access to sustainable diets. Considering the above, that future research should be focused on continue exploring the value food governance represents for sustainable diets and how the process of governing agriculture can contribute to understand that sector beyond food production for commercialization and visualize new opportunities as a relevant actor both in health and environmental sectors.
The following priorities are indispensable for enabling effective collective action for agri-food systems governance and transformation:
- A new Compact for the Earth – A set of shared, transversal principles, standards and objectives that define a comprehensive approach to restoring and sustaining biodiversity and natural resources, essential ecosystem services, and climate stability while ensuring equitable access to healthy diets for everyone, and reducing poverty and inequality in agri-food systems.
- A strengthened Science-Policy Interface for Sustainable Development of Agri-food Systems –Providing universal access to the essential data and analytical methods required to mainstream resilience and sustainability science, promoting accurate and consistent accounting for the impacts of human activities and interventions ,supporting development of science- and evidence based models to guide collective decision-making and inform individual behaviour, and ensuring independent, comprehensive assessment of outcomes across all three pillars of sustainable development.
- Reinvestment in the Technical and Scientific Capacities and Infrastructure of UN Institutions – In a largely marketized global economy for food and agriculture products and services, upon which nearly every human depends for sustenance and nutrition, and for livelihoods and incomes, United Nations institutions represent the core accountable infrastructure of global governance for sustainable development of agri-food systems. The global economy is far larger than it was at the time of the founding of the United Nations, and the urgency for effective collective action to protect our planet is greater than ever. Improving Market Functioning, Promoting Fairness and Reducing Inequality – markets at all levels –global, regional, national and subnational – play a decisive and necessary role in the allocation of resources, incomes and investments in agri-food systems, but agri-food systems are generally characterized by some of the most extreme concentrations of economic power and inequality.
Prof. Vijaya Khader