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Sr. ASM Salim Hossain
Organización:
APURBA BANGLADESH SOCIETY
País:
Bangladesh
Campo(s) de especialización:
I am working on:
I am currently working on the development of Rural agricultural sides i.e. food, fishery, and livestocks and helping to poor disable/handicapped children/boys/girls/women/men with food, health care, free education & training on agricultural developments.
Sr. ASM Salim Hossain
Dear members of the HLPE Project Team and Steering Committee,
We appreciate the much-needed focus on agroecology for food security and nutrition. As noted by other commenters, agroecology, the right to food and food sovereignty should be the foundations of agriculture and food policies. We share concerns over climate smart agriculture that is raised in a joint submission by CIDSE and those raised in several other submissions on the need for greater clarity in this report on the definitions of agroecology and the dilution of and diversion from agroecology under the wide-open rubric of “other innovations” that undermine rather than complement agroecology and the right to food.
It is unclear to us why in the context of Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) and Food Security and Nutrition (FSN), “innovation” is emerging as the central criterion with which to assess the utility of agroecology as well as other agricultural approaches. Such an approach tends to marginalize community based agricultural practices and knowledge that have evolved and fed communities for generations, even without the support of governments and international agencies. Innovation prizes the new and patentable product, even if such products are sub-optimal means to realizing FSN and SFS targets in poor countries. Other parameters such as agricultural resilience, adaptation, equity, empowerment as well as the precautionary principle might even be more relevant lenses with which to assess the utility of agricultural technology and practices as they help fulfill food security and nutritional needs in an era of climate change. Rather than expanding the report to cover numerous unrelated technologies and practices, a more useful contribution of the HLPE report would be to maintain a central focus on agroecology.
In addition, we would like to raise these specific concerns:
Please find our detailed comments and proposals on these issues in the attachment.
Best regards,
Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Director, Trade and Global Governance
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy