Ms. Claudia Tonnini
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Germany's (GER) position on the HLPE consultation
GER thanks the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) for preparing and sharing the Topic Note regarding upcoming CFS workstream on inequalities. We highly welcome the opportunity to contribute at an early stage through the online consultation.
We welcome that the workstream addresses the important issue of reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition. Among other things, high inequality limits development opportunities and the realization of human rights like the right to adequate food. Reducing inequality is therefore one of the key tasks we face in the future.
In this context and with regard to the questions of the consultation process, we emphasize that meaningful gender and youth mainstreaming approaches can contribute to social justice. Moreover, we highlight the importance of giving representation to youth and women representatives in all their diversity, meaning that particularly representatives from all geographic, social and ethnic groups are represented, most importantly the most marginalized. Hereby, forms of intersectional discrimination and exclusion need to be considered and sufficient enabling and preparatory information opportunities need to be given to achieve meaningful gender and youth participation. One key factor hereby is the use of forms of feedback loops with previous participants, in order to assess the success and satisfaction of the way their participation was managed and to continually improve the processes. Furthermore, especially the process to choose who will represent gender and youth diversity from an entire society should be conducted transparently.
CFS Policy Recommendations on Data collection and analysis tools for food security and nutrition
Here: GER position on the e-consultation on the V0 draft of the corresponding HLPE Report
General remarks
We thank the CFS and HLPE for submitting the V0 draft of the report “Data collection and analysis tools for food security and nutrition” and for the possibility to provide input. We welcome that the CFS addresses the issue of data and data processing, especially in the context of food security and nutrition. We emphasise that data collection needs to be considered in a way that it can be used for policy making from the outset. In this context, the Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF'd) is an important multilateral instrument that aims to support a stronger data ecosystem and build shared capacity to use data to better anticipate, prevent and respond to complex risks in fragile and crisis-affected areas.
With regard to the distributed V0 draft of the HLPE Report we would like to suggest that it could be more goal-oriented in terms of how improved data collection and analysis can contribute to the overall goal of improved food security and nutrition, considering the following aspects related to the current structure of the report:
Remarks with regard to the individual chapters of the report:
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Ms. Claudia Tonnini
Committee on World Food Security (CFS): HLPE 3rd Note on Critical, emerging and enduring issues - Preliminary V0 draft for CFS Bureau information
Here: GER (Germany) position on the HLPE Note
GER thanks the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) for preparing and sharing the Preliminary V0 draft HLPE 3rd Note on Critical, emerging and enduring issues. We highly welcome the opportunity to provide input through the consultation process.
As stated in the consultation process on identifying topics for the HLPE Report 2024, we agree on the relevance and urgency of all proposed themes. However, in the light of current challenges, the two topics “Conflicts and the fragility of food systems” and “Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases challenging FSN” particularly stand out in our view. As the world is currently facing a worsening global food security crisis, increased efforts are needed to address the root causes and main drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition worldwide, including poverty, inequalities, climate change, biodiversity loss, forced migration and conflicts. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic and the global economic recession had demonstrated the profound impact infectious diseases can have on global food security and nutrition. Following up on the GER position on possible themes for the HLPE report 2024, we suggest that the importance of strengthening the resilience of food systems to pandemics and health crises is also considered as part of the HLPE’s proposal on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Against the background described, we believe that also the topic “Building resilient supply chains for FSN” is of great importance and timeliness. For Germany, the aspect of sustainability in those supply chains is an important factor. In conclusion, in our view, the topics “Urban and peri-urban food systems”, “Revitalizing climate policies for FSN”, “Recognizing the role and rights of food system workers” and “Building a meaningful interface for diverse knowledges and practices for FSN” are also useful starting points. In order to avoid duplication, we recommend building on existing CFS policy products, where possible.
In addition to the excellent suggestions already made, we suggest to consider the following proposal, as noted in the GER position from 31 January 2022(1): To support the uptake of CFS policy products consideration could be given towards a separate workstream to an in-depth internal debate on enhanced efforts by the CFS and its stakeholders to increase global awareness and use of all CFS Voluntary Guidelines and Policy Recommendations.
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(1)GER initial input on the “Open Guiding Questions” within the Group of Friends of the CFS Chair– Implications of the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) on CFS