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الدكتور Beth Bradley
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Global Dairy Platform
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الولايات المتحدة الأمريكيّة
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Developing the evidence base that demonstrates dairy is essential to a sustainable food system.
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الدكتور Beth Bradley
Thank you for this opportunity to submit. Comments from Global Dairy Platform are attached as a PDF.
Regards,
Beth Bradley, PhD
Chief Science Officer, Global Dairy Platform
Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments during this open consultation period on Building Resilient Food Systems – scope of the report. These comments are submitted on behalf of Global Dairy Platform (GDP), a non-profit organization whose membership of dairy companies, associations, scientific bodies and other partners collaborate pre-competitively to lead and build evidence on dairy’s role in the diet and show the sector’s commitment to responsible food production.
In the peer-reviewed literature, a resilient food system is one that prioritizes the health and well- being of both people and the planet, ensuring that all individuals have access to safe, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food, even in the face of adversity. A resilient food system is one that can withstand and adapt to shocks and stresses, such as climate change, economic downturns, and disease outbreaks, while continuing to provide sufficient, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for the world. Key components of a resilient food system include:
2. Weak Points in the Global Food System that Threaten Resilience of Food Security and Nutrition
Currently, improvements to the following aspects of the global food system would help enhance food security and nutrition worldwide:
3. Resilience Programming Can Help Ensure Food and Nutrition Security for All
Resilience programming can ensure that a holistic and multi-dimensional approach is taken to ensure food and nutrition security for all individuals. By considering the various dimensions of food security and nutrition, resilience programming can better address the complex challenges and opportunities inherent in building sustainable and resilient food systems that promote the health and well-being of both people and the planet.
When resilience programming considers the goal of improved food and nutrition security for all, it prioritizes interventions that specifically target improving the quality and diversity of diets, ensuring access to essential nutrients, and addressing malnutrition in all its forms. This could include promoting domestic agricultural production and practices that enhance the nutritional value of food, supporting food fortification and supplementation programs, and improving access to nutritious food for vulnerable populations.
This cannot be achieved without considering availability, access, utilization, stability, safety, and cultural acceptability – the pillars of nutritional security. Resilience programming informed by this framework may involve interventions that address each of these pillars, such as:
4. Public-Private Partnerships Demonstrated to Have Contributed to Building Resilience The global dairy industry can provide examples of recent partnerships and initiatives demonstrated to contribute to building food system resilience.
Example 1: Dairy Nourishes Africa (DNA), a public-private partnership which leverages the collective strength of Global Dairy Platform as well as community and governmental stakeholders, to drive the accelerated transformation of African dairy industries. DNA takes a market-led, value- chain approach to foster and support activity throughout the dairy ecosystem. DNA has grown consumer demand, driven farmer-allied intermediaries, significantly increased farmer production, enhanced women’s active participation throughout the value chain, improved environmental sustainability, and created a supportive and interconnected operating environment in which the dairy industry can thrive.
DNA launched in Tanzania in 2020, where the objective was to develop scalable and replicable business models. In 2021, DNA leveraged its learnings and expanded into Kenya. Subsequent scaling in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Rwanda are on the horizon.
The DNA initiative was founded by GDP in partnership with Land O’Lakes, Venture37, and Bain & Company. The DNA initiative aims to contribute to the achievement of several SDGs as it relates to ending hunger, providing nutritious food, ending stunting, and promoting sustainable agriculture. To date, the impact of DNA has been the following:
Example 2: Dairy Sustainability Framework (DSF) is a continuous-improvement framework for the global dairy sector to responsibly align, connect and progress its sustainability efforts in a pre- competitive and collaborative way. The DSF is the sectors sustainability monitoring and reporting facility that reports annually the global dairy sector’s progress against 11 Sustainability Criteria, celebrating improvements and drawing attention to areas where greater attention is necessary.
Members who are implementing, quantifying and providing data on their proactive sustainability efforts are also encouraged to share their solutions and experiences with sector colleagues facing similar challenges. DSF partners with over 1,000 organizations across the public and private sectors, NGOs, and dairy industry associations to provide the annual reporting. It operates on a global level. To-date, the impact of the DSF has been the following:
Example 3: Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ) is a first of its kind effort that brings together dairy companies, organizations and farms of every size and type to work together on their pathways toward Dairy Net Zero by 2050. With a goal of optimizing productivity and reducing emissions, P2DNZ has distinctive programs for both developed countries and emerging economies.
P2DNZ, which started in 2021, is governed by The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Dairy Federation (IDF), SAI Platform, the IFCN Dairy Research Network, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), DSF and GDP. P2DNZ supporters include some of the largest dairy companies and organizations in the world. Partnership is prevalent throughout the P2DNZ program, with companies working on a pre-competitive basis to solve environmental-related issues.
DNA is part of the P2DNZ focus on long-term programs that are ideal for emerging markets. DNA’s model is in line with the overall P2DNZ goal – to address food and nutritional security while simultaneously enhancing livelihoods, economic growth and delivering improved climate outcomes. DSF is also strongly tied to P2DNZ, as it is the only global measurement of key sustainability data points that can chart progress toward net zero.
5. Lessons learned from public-private initiatives to help ensure resilient food systems
Agriculture (sequestration/ bioenergy production) is one of the most important components for governments in delivering mitigation opportunities under their nationally determined contributions.