Dear all,
We have read your draft HLPE paper on ' Nutrition and Food systems'.
Our compliments for all your work you have done so far.
We have some remarks on a few issues:
1. The impact of trade. In our opinion trade between countries is necessary to stimulate productivity and production. We want to refer to a research for the European Commission, just finished on the impact of trade agreements for the agriculture. We have added this research. Import in Europe from developing countries will increase with trasde agreements.
In our opinion this research provides a more realistic view on trade.
2. The necessity of 'sustainable intensification'. To reduce GHG from agriculture a sustainable intensification of the agriculture is necessary to reduce deforestation. We want to refer to a recent research of the Institute on the Environment. You can find this on:
http://www.environmentreports.com/how-does-agriculture-change/#section2
3. Transfer of knowledge and technology: The western world has a role to support developing countries with knowledge and technology: Due to the necessity of increasing productivity and sustainability a transfer of knowledge and technology might increase productivity in the developing world. It’s important to stimulate this transfer.
For climate smart agriculture a lot of techniques will be available in the next years.
Kindly regards
Joost de Jong
Ministry of Economic Affairs
The Netherlands
Joost de Jong