Dear Committee,
I have done a very quick read-through of the document.
The first question is, who is the main audience for the document? I could not find it described.
While it is clearly one of the most comprehensive documents in terms of describing issues and research needs going forward, a thorough assessment of why each one of these issues has not been addressed successfully to date beyond a well-financed pilot here and there is missing. I have been involved with agriculture-nutrition linkages since 1976 and have come face to face with most of these issues running field programmes and I ask myself why are we still discussing basically the same issues some 40 years later? Lessons learned on why things don't work would enrich the final product.
Paul Sommers
Institute for Food and Agriculture
California State University, Fresno
Paul Sommers