Foro Global sobre Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición (Foro FSN)

Please find attached the submission for the online consultation for the Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition from El Poder del Consumidor (Mexico).

Thank you kindly for your consideration.

Best wishes,

Marisa Macari, on behalf of El Poder del Consumidor

Reference is made to the call for comments to the Vo CFS Voluntary guidelines on food systems and nutrition.

The Vo draft states that policy and institutional reforms are key to promoting sustainable food systems that improve nutrition and enable healthy diets. The 45th CFS session in 2018 endorsed a policy process which is expected to result in Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition. The Voluntary Guidelines, like earlier CFS products, are intended to be a reference document that provides guidance.

At its 41th session, the CFS, based on a CFS-HLPE report, recognized that the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture is a fundamental condition for food security and nutrition. CFS recommended several actions to address the development, policy, management and enforcement challenges in order to maintain and enhance the contribution of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture to nutrition and food security. These policy recommendations should be referred to in the CFS Voluntary guidelines on food systems and nutrition, making sure that the CFS follows its own recommendations – to make fish a visible, integral element in food security and nutrition strategies, policies and programmes. We suggest to include a footnote in paragraph 40 in the Vo draft, with reference to the CFS policy recommendations on Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture for Food Security and Nutrition: http://www.fao.org/3/a-av032e.pdf

More over under chapter 1 "Production systems", a number of policy- relevant areas are mentioned. We are happy that you have inserted the footnote nr 23, which reminds us that in the UN the word "agriculture" also refers to fisheries and aquaculture, however to make sure that fish is "a visible, integral element" in this document, the policy-relevant areas could also specify "The role of fish in food security and nutrition". And that sustainable fisheries and aquaculture should be recognized as a fundamental condition for food security and nutrition. Fish should be a visible, integral element, with special regard to promoting fish as a source of proteins and micronutrients.

Best regards,

Anita Utheim Iversen

Senior Adviser

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries

Usted encontrará en archivo adjunto los aportes de FIAN Colombia a las consultas en línea del Comité de Seguridad Alimentaria sobre sistemas alimentarios y nutrición.

Muchas gracias por su trabajo en este importante proceso.

Un saludo cordial.

Hernando Salcedo Fidalgo

Coordinador Línea de Nutrición

FIAN Colombia

fiancolombia.org

Respecful Greetings,   



Please find attached the International Indian Treaty Council's contribution and comments on the Zero Draft for Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition submitted via email on 02.09.2019 and now shared via the CFS website. 



Best Regards,

Nicole Yanes

International Indian Treaty Council 

The document covers many things very well.

• Gender – women and children on nutrition well covered, especially under women producers and school going children but I don’t know if lactating women include lactating girls (early pregnancies)
• Availability and access well covered
• SDGs – well covered apart from SDG 13 and 15 which climate change and life on land has been mentioned to affect food systems and nutrition but not considered as SDGs where food security should also be holistically planned for
• Chemicals and pesticides (aflatoxin) well covered – but chemicals with cancer causing agents should be mentioned to be abolished forever – Use of safe/substantiable biological pesticides should be developed
• GMOs – not mentioned (someone can easily use this document to promote such policy for food availability) article 43 (a) and other areas where chemicals, antibacterial resistance and pesticides mentioned
• Agriculture was inclusive to capture crops, fisheries, livestock and forestry as well as agrobiodiversity but does not lift up AGROFORESTRY properly “We need to request the document to include agroforestry – tree fruits, organic honey, milk, herbs/medicine and direct livelihoods and incomes to access food – this can be put under article 43 (d)
• Diversification foods, system and diets – a propose under 43 to have it as stand alone so that such policy might make countries change production systems to be diversified, traditional diets and embrace agroecology.
• Under 43 we need a policy area on low emission food system. Agriculture contribute about 13 – 15 % GHGs hence food policies should reduce emissions

Se envían en adjunto comentarios de la Argentina al Borrador Cero del documento de referencia.

I am submitting the contribution from the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Global Support System to the consultation on the zero draft of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition by email (see attached).

Thanks very much for the opportunity to comment on the draft.

My dear colleagues, please find attached my contribution, with the following answers :

1. Does Chapter 1 adequately reflect the current situation of malnutrition and its related causes and impacts, particularly in line with the goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda? What are the underlying problems that currently hinder food systems to deliver healthy diets?

Chapter 1 reports on the current situation of malnutrition and related causes and impacts, but it does not sufficiently emphasize the relationship between the effects of climate change and the agricultural situation of a climate-affected country. in particular, global warming, which leads to the scarcity of water points, and which has direct effects on agricultural production and which generates effects of malnutrition and / or undernutrition on populations unable to move on territories affected by climatic effects .

The report also does not insist on the need to adapt agricultural production according to regions, countries, the environmental context in general, for example, poor agricultural production can lead to soil depletion in water , essential element for developing agricultural production

2. What should be the guiding principles to promote sustainable food systems that improve nutrition and enable healthy diets? What are your comments about the principles outlined in Chapter 2? Are they the most appropriate for your national/regional contexts?

Overall, the established guiding principles are consistent with the predefined direction, however, it is important to democratize and popularize information. To do this, the promotion of the sustainable food system will absolutely have to go through the filter of social networks, if it wishes to impact a maximum of people; The aim is to reach the masses and thus accelerate another level of international awareness, which should be followed by mass actions to improve nutrition in all latitudes.

Many countries affected by malnutrition / and / or undernutrition, are paradoxically hyper-connected, it is to seize this asset to establish a campaign of international communication of shock.

This new approach should be the subject of a reflection on the communication strategy through the establishment of a guiding principle for the promotion of sustainable food systems: Digitization of the world implies the establishment of networks of positive influences to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

Example guiding principle: "Strategy and communication for the promotion of sustainable food systems"

3. In consideration of the policy areas identified in Chapter 3 and the enabling factors suggested in paragraph 41 of the Zero Draft, what policy entry points should be covered in Chapter 3, taking into account the need to foster policy coherence and address policy fragmentation?

Given the policy areas identified in Chapter 3 and the enabling factors suggested in paragraph 41 of the draft, the political entry points that should be addressed in Chapter 3 relate to information management. the harmonization between agrarian practices and economic, social and humanitarian development must be ensured. It is necessary to concern the autochthonous people in the definition of the agricultural public policies which often have ancestral agrarian practices in accordance with the environmental context. For example, to promote the specific crop according to the seasons of each country and not according to the economic pressure related to a neutral international consumption system.

4. Can you provide specific examples of new policies, interventions, initiatives, alliances and institutional arrangements which should be considered, as well as challenges, constraints, and trade-offs relevant to the three constituent elements of food systems presented in Chapter 3? In your view, what would the “ideal” food system look like, and what targets/metrics can help guide policy-making

In terms of national public policy, the French government has taken the firm resolve to remove all pesticides from the market to promote the development of a healthier agriculture and thus limit the effects of endocrine disrupters and other health on the French population .

In Martinique, banana producers had to find biological palliatives to protect their production against insects and to continue their agricultural production activities. For example, aerial application of banol (insecticide) was suppressed, along with this event, a farmer found that the product resulting from the decomposition of banana trunks had an insecticidal effect.

5. How would these Voluntary Guidelines be most useful for different stakeholders, especially at national and regional levels, once endorsed by CFS?

These voluntary guidelines will be useful if they are shared and sensitized to national and regional stakeholders; To do this, it is necessary to put in place means of communication strategies that will aim at informing about the advantages of adopting new methods.

He develop a fund dedicated to this strategy, which should not be taken lightly.

Dr.h.c Audrey POMIER FLOBINUS

CEO & Chairwoman

Humanity For The World (HFTW)

www.humanityfortheworld.org

Dear CFS colleagues

Thankyou for sharing this draft and allowing comment. Please find my comments attached.

Dear CFS colleagues,

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Zero Draft of the Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition. Please find my comments on behalf of Welthungerhilfe attached.

Kind regards,

Andrea Sonntag