Dear Evariste,
Thanks for the invite to participate at the online consultation on „Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition in the context of urbanization and rural transformation“. On behalf of our colleagues in Capital we would like to take the opportunity to share the below comments and the attached GFFA document for your consideration:
- “Germany attaches great importance to the topic “Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition in the context of urbanization and rural transformation”.
- In 2016, we dedicated ourselves to the topic “How to feed our cities? – Agriculture and rural areas in an era of urbanization” as part of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). Here, a GFFA Communiqué with key messages on the topic was adopted (see attachment).
- Moreover, the topic was also part of our National Dialogue process to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, in which we dealt with this issue in the thematic area “sustainable food systems in urban and rural areas”. In this context, a dialog event on the topic “Together for sustainable nutrition: Cooperative food systems as drivers of sustainability” was held on 7th April 2022 (see https://summitdialogues.org/dialogue/49968/). Results of the discussions on this thematic area revealed, among other things, that sustainable regional value chains are considered a starting point for transformation and a prerequisite for improved marketing of domestic products. They were characterized by resilient logistics chains, promote urban-rural relations and partnerships between producers and consumers, and enhance awareness of agriculture. In general, the broad dimension of the topic of regional value chains for the transformation process, up to the importance of promoting food-related craft trades and the transfer of knowledge in schools and professional training institutions, became obvious in the National Dialogue process.”
Thank you and kind regards
Silke
Silke Stallkamp, Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UN Organizations in Rome
Silke Stallkamp