Foro Global sobre Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición (Foro FSN)

Dear participants in the FSN forum,

To me the revised draft has many good qualities. It is succinct and actionable and highlights the importance of the entire food system to achieve good nutrition outcomes for all. It also contains references to the right to adequate food, which is indispensable for nutrition.

On the other hand, it would be beneficial to highlight gender issues more in the document. References to the impact of discrimination on women’s nutrition generally, and the special nutritional needs of women could usefully be included, including the special needs they have during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Wording from the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women could be used for this purpose.

Furthermore, the right to the highest attainable standard of health could be mentioned along with the right to adequate food, so as to impress upon all that nutrition is note solely a matter of access to adequate food and clean water, but also access to public health and medical interventions in extreme cases.

Finally, it would be useful to mention that achieving good nutrition for all depends on good governance and a human rights based approach.

Margret Vidar

Thank you for sharing this draft of the declaration with us.

The document reads well and the flow of the ideas is good.

Comments:

* It is good to refer to ICN1 and the targets as well as existing commitments (as stated in the footnote). Hope this will include the recent Nutrition Action Plan and some of the existing strategies as the Global Strategy for IYCF.

*Overall the document is strong on food and agriculture language and scope and not much on nutrition. It includes ideas related to food safety and non-communicable diseases (as obesity) but not much on malnutrition.  

*The document does not include any reference or mentioning of nutrition in emergencies and as we know this is an area extremely important in many parts of the world.

*It will be good to include the current situation concerning IYCF (as breastfeeding/complementary feeding) on page 2, number 10….especially that we have new indicators now.

*The document also lacks mentioning HIV and infectious diseases and the relationship with nutrition.

*Under point 11 (b) many things are lumped together here that it became unclear on what we want to say.

*Point 11 (a, b, c, d and e) and the “the vision for global action to end all form of malnutrition” does not actually have any point related to nutrition or malnutrition specifically.

*The same comment goes to section (12) where (a to j) do not address specific points relate to nutrition or malnutrition.

Point (e) is the only point referring to nutrition but is broad and refer to obesity and intake of nutrients.

*For section 13 and the “Commitment to action”, good to see good reference to nutrition in point (a) but not specific enough;

*point (e) is the only place in the document where breastfeeding and complementary feeding are mentioned (this is why it will be good to set the stage before for that and give some data on where we stand); this was one of the targets within the Plan of Action in ICN1 I think and will be good to give more emphasis on this crucial area;  

*It will be helpful to define or give more explanation on what we mean by “people with special needs”…..does it include emergency for example??

*It is surprising not to see the “Code” mentioned in the document…..although the Codex is. Can we include that?

*And to be comprehensive (according to recent WHA resolutions), it will be good to mention BFHI within the action points.

*Under point 14, the statement “….implementation of their national programmes and plans for nutrition” is not clear. Almost all countries have existing “Plan of action on Nutrition” and the idea here is to strengthen these and build on them and not reinvent the wheels and start from scratch again. It can be confusing to countries learning from experience of ICN1.

*Does the document need to be endorsed by WHA first??

Hope you find the above helpful.

Best regards,

Randa Saadeh

>> ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW <<

Мои пропозиции к пункту

Дальнейшие действия

13.

Мы обязуемся:

a)

искоренить голод и все формы неполноценного питания, в частности с целью

ликвидации таких явлений, как отставание в росте, истощение и избыточный

вес среди детей в возрасте до 5 лет, а также анемия у женщин; искоренение

недоедания и прекращения нарастания

тенденций к ожирению;

Добавить

 Усовершенствование систем орошения и осушения как инструментов получения продовольствия в зонах риска. Учитывать изменения климата и прогнозировать комплексные мелиорации с использованием процедур экологического аудита и сертификации  територий (земель сельскохозяйственного предназначения).

(по этому направлению есть много публикаций и методика аудита)

Украина, г. Ровно, Национальный университет водного хозяйства и природопользования, доктор экономических наук, професор, Скрипчук Петр Михайлович

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2 и объявить десятилетие действий в области питания

My propositions are:

Steps to be taken

13.

We shall be obligated to:

a)  end hunger and all forms of malnutrition, particularly in order to eliminate such issues as stunting, wasting and overweight among children under 5 years old, as well as anemia among women; ending undernutrition and stopping tendency towards obesity;

To add:

Improvement of irrigation and drainage systems as tools for producing food in areas at risk. To consider climate change and to project complex amelioration using procedures of environmental audit and certification of land (agricultural land).

(there are many publications and audit procedure on this subject)

Ukraine, Rivne, National University Of Water Management And Nature Resources Use, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Peter Skripchuk

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2 and to announce Decade of Actions on Nutrition

Attached my input to the online consultation.

There should be more focus on food losses and waste in Rome Declaration on Nutrition - and perhaps even making fighting food losses and waste among the first 3 priorities.

Dear FSN Forum

please kindly find attached the form (filled in with my contribution), 

Thank you for your kind cooperation.

Sincerely

Gianluca

Dear FSN Forum,

Thank you for sharing the draft version on political outcome on Nutrition on 12 may 2014 which is comprehensive and contains a reflects a strong political commitment to ensure enhanced situation on every aspect of nutritional health.However i miss an explicit commitment on special investment on tracking indigenous food habits of people of developing countries which is vital for their survival during difficult climatic condition and food insecurity situation. Thus rural women's knowledge about locally available nature based source of food might be marginalized by giving much weight to externally supplied food. In countries with very poor infrastructure for transport,food supply remains unsecured and irregular which imply that those remote people cannot have equal access to food like others from geographically privileged. In such situation,recognition to locally available food source is important, however due to lack of required attention for investment in research and development in this aspect, there has been a huge gap between local knowledge and managing food security measures of public agencies. I pledge that the document needs to give importance to this issue as an essential aspect of sustainability of food security chain.

My comments are also included in the template attached.

Thanks and regards

Kanchan Lama

Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Specialist (Freelancer)

Member, BoD, WOCAN (www.wocan.org)

I have enclosed my comments as bubbles in the attached PDF document. It is a neatly laid out draft and I hope it results into some meaningful action.

Congratulations to the team!