Dear Sir/Madam,
Having gone through the highlights of the V0 draft report, I'm sharing my personal view in the following manner:
In terms of data collection and utilisation and for equity and inclusion, the global community and international organizations need to seriously engage indigenous knowledge and innovations from the grassroot and local levels. This will provide a better opportunity to gain an appropriate insight into the current state of world food security and to agree on and design international action to improve it, leaving no one behind.
We need to decolonize our food systems by promoting indigenous food heritages. In countries with diverse geographical, climate and weather conditions, government and citizens generated data should not only be based on a particular geo-location. I have observed and noticed that researchers and policy-makers rely mostly on regions that favour their interest or are convenient for them, this attitude has led to monocropping, near-extinction, non-accessibility and unavailability of most staple foods that serve as food and raw materials for the people at the bottom of pyramids in these countries.
For a more effective decision-making for food security and nutrition and to inform policies for the transformation of food systems, especially in developing countries; we need to improve equity in access to data for FSN policies and decisions at grassroot and local levels with regards to cultural diversity and geographical locations.
Ms. Asikaralu Okafor