Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Re: How can FAO better support countries in addressing governance of agrifood systems transformation to make them more sustainable, inclusive and resilient?

Dear FAO team,

Please find attached our contribution to the call for submission of the Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition.

Our researcher team recently (15.03.2024) published a scientific paper in the Journal Sustainability Science on the very issue of the call for submissions (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-024-01477-7).

After extensive discussions with members of the German Federal Parliament, who stated that the financial leeway for sustainability measures is limited, we developed a possible differentiated value added tax (VAT) adaptation, that would be beneficial ecologically, socially and economically and therefore could have great potential to be implemented.

See the attachments: