The document covers many things very well.
- Gender – women and children on nutrition well covered, especially under women producers and school going children but I don’t know if lactating women include lactating girls (early pregnancies)
- Availability and access well covered
- SDGs – well covered apart from SDG 13 and 15 which climate change and life on land has been mentioned to affect food systems and nutrition but not considered as SDGs where food security should also be holistically planned for
- Chemicals and pesticides (aflatoxin) well covered – but chemicals with cancer causing agents should be mentioned to be abolished forever – Use of safe/substantiable biological pesticides should be developed
- GMOs – not mentioned (someone can easily use this document to promote such policy for food availability) article 43 (a) and other areas where chemicals, antibacterial resistance and pesticides mentioned
- Agriculture was inclusive to capture crops, fisheries, livestock and forestry as well as agrobiodiversity but does not lift up AGROFORESTRY properly “We need to request the document to include agroforestry – tree fruits, organic honey, milk, herbs/medicine and direct livelihoods and incomes to access food – this can be put under article 43 (d)
- Diversification foods, system and diets – a propose under 43 to have it as stand alone so that such policy might make countries change production systems to be diversified, traditional diets and embrace agroecology.
- Under 43 we need a policy area on low emission food system. Agriculture contribute about 13 – 15 % GHGs hence food policies should reduce emissions
Amos Wekesa