Foro Global sobre Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición (Foro FSN)

Dear colleagues,

Please find attached the stock taking form, the feedback form on the SFSP as well as the participation form.

Additionally, we like to refer to our principle publication about Sustainable Nutrition (in German): http://www.nachhaltigeernaehrung.de/fileadmin/Publikationen/aid_eif_Nachhaltige_Ernaehrung_Koerber_09-2014__Lit.pdf

and the flyer of our English book “The Joy of Sustainable Eating”: http://www.nachhaltigeernaehrung.de/fileadmin/Aktuelles/Flyer_The_Joy_of_Sustainable_Eating_-_Koerber-Hohler2.pdf. This consumer-oriented book with forewords from FAO and UNEP combines theoretical background and practical advice with about 100 recipes. It is awarded as “Official contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development” and can contribute to the implementation of Sustainable Nutrition into practice.

Finally you can have a look at the flyer of our German edition „Nachhaltig geniessen: Rezeptbuch für unsere Zukunft”: http://www.nachhaltigeernaehrung.de/fileadmin/Publikationen/Flyer_NG_Logo_fuer_HP.pdf.

We are looking forward to participate in the SFSP.

Kind regards,

Karl von Koerber and Nadine Bader

Working Group on Sustainable Nutrition – Arbeitsgruppe Nachhaltige Ernährung

Advisory Bureau for Nutrition Ecology – Beratungsbüro für ErnährungsÖkologie

E-Mail: [email protected]

Homepage: www.nachhaltigeernaehrung.de

I am now submitting my feed back on the draft concept note. I hope it can help. :-)

Our response is straight-forward - we ask that more support be given to those farmers and communities who wish to move away from farming animals toward plant-based farming and diets.  In a UK context, it is well demonstrated that such approaches are socially and economically sustainable and can reduce the need for fertile land, fresh water and fossil fuel energy by a factor of three compared to the typical UK 'meat-and-dairy' based farming and diets.  

With appropriate resources, locally adapted stock-free farming and plant-based diets can help communities to achieve food sovereignty. 

Dear colleagues, 

In our work on Incentives for Ecosystem Services (IES) for Food and Agriculture, we share the expected outcome of the 10YFP-SFSP as we also hope to “propose a mix of policy, regulatory and voluntary instruments (…) to accelerate the uptake of SCP practice across food systems.”  We hope to do this through activities similar to those you propose, especially:

-          “Objective 4: Bring together initiatives and develop partnerships to build synergies and cooperation to leverage resources towards mutual goal of promoting, enhancing and facilitating the shift towards more sustainable food systems”.

-          Work Area 2: Encourage, facilitate and support inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogue to help inform  interconnected policymaking:

a) capacity building provision to governments and policy makers to facilitate:

o   (iii) assessment of policy options, including cost-effectiveness and welfare analysis; and

o   (iv) the building of capacity for regulation, enforcement, and EIA ( environmental and social impact assessment) processes; and

o   b) promoting the building of Public Private Partnerships to, for example, expand access to finance

o   Work Area 3: Facilitate the use and enhance opportunities for market-based and/or voluntary approaches:

c) identification, and piloting the viability of innovative market mechanisms for environmental  services in the agri-food supply chain, and scale-up (e.g. the role of Payments for Ecosystem Services);

As such, please consider adding to page 4 of the FAO EOI: Land and Water (NRL) – work on sustainable management of land and water, and the development of incentives to support their adoption, through coordinated planning and investment in agriculture and environmental measures.

For more background see attached:

-         our stocktacking form;

-         the contribution we made at your last meeting FAO-UNEP Sustainable Food Systems Programme: Workshop on Knowledge and Information for Sustainable Food Systems, Rome, 10-11 September 2014;

-         a project flyer showing how we will do this in 2015;

regards to all

Nanete

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Bernardete Neves

Natural Resources Officer

Land and Water Division (NRL)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla

00153 Rome, Italy

Tel. +39 06 57056205 Email: [email protected]

http://www.fao.org/nr/aboutnr/incentives-for-ecosystem-services/case-studies/en/

Please find attached our form on the proposed partcipation of our Institute to your programme, as lead or co-lead or other roles you think may be suitable to our experience.

best,

Alessandro Pirani

Future Food Institute

Dear FSN moderator,

please find my feedback on the draft concept note of the 10YFP

Best regards,

Dr. Aimée Hampel-Milagrosa

Senior Researcher

Abt II Nachhaltige Wirtschafts- und Sozialentwicklung

Department of Sustainable Economic and Social Development

Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) / German Development Institute,