Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Salutations Drafting team,

First of all what is High Level Panel of Experts? The earlier the UN and its Agencies drop this label, the better. Why? Because it contradicts the facts and grotesques experiences of the people on the ground. If any High Level Panel of Experts existed anywhere, the world would not be in the grips of crises after crises as we witness. In the Food Sector, if there were any High Level Panel of Experts in the Food Sector, why do we have a disorganised Food System that produces enough Food but entails so much waste and wastefulness through its value chains that results in millions needlessly suffering Food Poverty, Hunger and Malnutrition? Please, drop it because it is offensive to the Millions who die from starvation, hunger and food poverty.

Secondly, the construct of the consultation does not highlight the URGENCY of the World Food Crises!!! Are you aware that even in the Global North, Food Banks have become the norm for low paid professional workers? 

Thirdly, there is no mention of the Current Cost of Living Crises which already threatens widespread Spiraling Cost of Food and Food Poverty in Europe, UK and the Global North?

Fourthly, in the US, UK, Canada, and EU Countries, Farmers are paid to produce less - this policy is absent from your consultation. Where is the balance of Purpose, Profits and Ethics in the Theory and Applied Agricultural Economics.

By the time this consultation is over, millions would have died from Starvation, Hunger, Malnutrition, Food Poverty and Food Insecurity.

As said, this consultation come across as a too abstract and remotely removed from the practicalities of the world's starving. Given the precarious world context in which the consultation is being carried out, the consultation and ensued report should address the Existential Practicalities, Structural Causes, Harsh Consequences and Dire Urgency of the Global Food Crises Situation. It is suggested that a selection of the Hungry and Staring should be come members of the Working Panel to bring reality and immediacy to its credibility. Otherwise it remains detached and irrelevant to needed workable paradigms. 

Best wishes