To the Secretary of the HLPE,CFS,
We understand that the V0 draft report of Sustainable Agricultural Development for Food Security and Nutrition, including the Role of Livestock is publicly available on the HLPE consultation platformon the website of CFS.
Due to the continues communication with our capital for some days more, we here have some additional comments and revise suggestions below which we would like to share with you and contribute for any help of the last version’s release, and also for your reference for the further precise research work and how to make closely cooperation with Chinese experts.
Please find all the comments followed with the pagemark which help you to finding them.
V0 DRAFT REPORT
Page．13．In relation to chemicals, the cause can be either illicit additives, such as the melamine introduced into powdered milk in China, or additives introduced to achieve specific properties such as taste, longer shelf-life or appearance.
Response: Wedon’t think it is convenient for you to express like this way, suchmelamine event in china is not unique issue in the world, itcontributes to the amplification effect by the public medias which chase their explosive effects and audience ratings as well.
As a professional report,this V0 draft report should align with the principle of objective and impartial that FAOand CFS insist.
We suggest delete the sentence followed: such as the melamine introduced into powdered milk in China.
Page．15．There has, however, also been a reverse trend in some other countries including some large non-OECD economies such as Indonesia, the Russian Federation and China, which are moving from effective taxation of agriculture to becoming significant subsidizers, in some cases approaching OECD country levels, and with the potential for the same damaging impacts on poorer countries’ agricultural interests.
Response: We suggest delete the sentence followed: in some cases approaching OECD country levels, and with the potential for the same damaging impacts on poorer countries’ agricultural interests.
Page．51．In China, for example, food production is said to be dominated by “elephants and mice”; in other words, a great majority of informal sector actors who are difficult to monitor and a few large companies that have incentives to escape or capture regulation (Alcorn and Ouyang, 2012). These structural challenges are compounded by generally poor capacity to enforce regulation in many developing countries.
Response:Consider with the objectivity of the text content, it may be true, but does not mean all,we believe it does not represent the views of mainstream and authority.it may be misled some readers who are not fully understand the so called structural challenges.
CFSshould not intake all the“special”views from some experts as itsformal proposal or decisions in the future and with freely.
We suggest delete the whole paragraph above.
Page．56．In China, recent years have seen: the use of melamine to increase the apparent protein level of baby milk; ink to colour noodles; and sodium borate used to make cheap pork resemble beef (GFSF, 2011). A meta-review of studies of acute food poisoning sourced from Chinese academic databases for the period 2000–2010, covering 2 387 individual incidents of acute food-borne illnesses, found food additives were responsible for 9.9 20 percent。
Response: Theseabove are some of the more extreme examples, actually, we can also find and would like to share with you more examples with more negative effects from some countries even some developed countries as well.
Please kindly noted that if your opinion could not cover all examples, please don’t make one or two countries to bear all the responsibilities of the crisis that we all face. And more,the Chinese academic databases which you cited should be clarified as the standard reference articles annexed.
We fully suggest delete the whole paragraph above or clarify the second half of the paragraph in page 56.
Lin Ding