Federation of organic development «Bio-KG», Kyrgyzstan, promote the agriculture, sensitive to nutrition, since 2012. We support a list of issues that HLPE report will be addressed, as well as the proposals made by our colleagues from different countries. Particularly important we consider conducting qualitative research and assessments using participatory approach. This kind of studies will be a reliable source of facts in order to understand people’s situation and decide what should be done. Currently, nutrition researches in Kyrgyzstan are fragmentary. It is difficult to understand the whole scene and identify priorities on the basis of these studies. Voices of the inhabitants of remote mountain villages, poor people, people with certain medical conditions are almost inaudible. Based on our experience in cooperation with the residents of the mountain villages, we believe that special attention should be paid:
• on the cultural specificity of the diets, the description of traditional diets and changes that occur in the power of traditional communities nowadays;
• the extensive mythology, spontaneously formed around diets, and uncontrolled flow of inadequate, incomplete and false information on nutrition;
• the social stratification of consumers and the selection of particularly vulnerable groups, which must be addressed first by efforts to improve access to healthy food;
• to the context, which includes access to other options of a healthy lifestyle, such as healthy movement, a roof over people’s heads, distress level, and so on.
• the relationship between food safety and stability of fragile agro eco-systems;
• political, economic and legal aspects of the formation of a "product package" caused by intense cross-border trade and its impact on local producers (in particular for the poorest countries, with more economically developed neighbors);
• the analysis of the effectiveness of existing civil, governmental and international initiatives in the field of nutrition, their coordination and transparency.
Gulnara Kurmanova