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博士 Beth Bradley

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组织: Global Dairy Platform
国家: 美国
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Developing the evidence base that demonstrates dairy is essential to a sustainable food system.

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    • Thank you for this opportunity to submit. Comments from Global Dairy Platform are attached as a PDF.

      Regards,

      Beth Bradley, PhD

      Chief Science Officer, Global Dairy Platform

      Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments during this open consultation period on Building Resilient Food Systems – scope of the report. These comments are submitted on behalf of Global Dairy Platform (GDP), a non-profit organization whose membership of dairy companies, associations, scientific bodies and other partners collaborate pre-competitively to lead and build evidence on dairy’s role in the diet and show the sector’s commitment to responsible food production.

      1. Defining A Resilient Food System

      In the peer-reviewed literature, a resilient food system is one that prioritizes the health and well- being of both people and the planet, ensuring that all individuals have access to safe, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food, even in the face of adversity. A resilient food system is one that can withstand and adapt to shocks and stresses, such as climate change, economic downturns, and disease outbreaks, while continuing to provide sufficient, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for the world. Key components of a resilient food system include:

      • Diversity: A diverse range of food sources, production methods, and markets that can help mitigate the impacts of shocks and stresses on the food system. This includes promoting biodiversity in agriculture, supporting small-scale farmers, and fostering diverse diets for improved nutrition outcomes.
      • Flexibility: A resilient food system is able to adapt quickly to changing conditions, such as shifting climate patterns or market demands. This may involve promoting crop and livestock diversity, supporting innovation in food production and distribution, and fostering adaptive capacity among farmers and consumers.
      • Sustainability: A resilient food system is sustainable over the long term, nourishing the world, ensuring the health of ecosystems, the livelihoods of farmers, and the well-being of communities. This includes promoting equitable access to nutritious food for all individuals and sustainable agricultural practices.
      • Collaboration: Building public-private partnerships and networks among stakeholders in the food system, including farmers, policymakers, researchers, the food industry, and consumers, can help enhance resilience by sharing knowledge, resources, and best practices, and fostering collective action in response to a changing world.

       

      2. Weak Points in the Global Food System that Threaten Resilience of Food Security and Nutrition

      Currently, improvements to the following aspects of the global food system would help enhance food security and nutrition worldwide:

      • Access to markets: Small-scale farmers in developing countries often struggle to access and compete in formal markets, leading to lower incomes and poorer nutrition outcomes for themselves and their communities.
      • Improved infrastructure and technology: Many farmers, especially in developing countries, lack access to basic infrastructure and modern technologies to improve productivity and reduce losses.
      • Affordability: Farmers, particularly in low and middle-income countries, cannot afford the basic infrastructure necessary to improve productivity and reduce losses.
      • Stability in global trade policies: Fluctuations in global trade policies and market prices can impact commodity prices and farmer incomes, leading to increased food insecurity and malnutrition in vulnerable populations.

       

      3. Resilience Programming Can Help Ensure Food and Nutrition Security for All

      Resilience programming can ensure that a holistic and multi-dimensional approach is taken to ensure food and nutrition security for all individuals. By considering the various dimensions of food security and nutrition, resilience programming can better address the complex challenges and opportunities inherent in building sustainable and resilient food systems that promote the health and well-being of both people and the planet.

      When resilience programming considers the goal of improved food and nutrition security for all, it prioritizes interventions that specifically target improving the quality and diversity of diets, ensuring access to essential nutrients, and addressing malnutrition in all its forms. This could include promoting domestic agricultural production and practices that enhance the nutritional value of food, supporting food fortification and supplementation programs, and improving access to nutritious food for vulnerable populations.

      This cannot be achieved without considering availability, access, utilization, stability, safety, and cultural acceptability – the pillars of nutritional security. Resilience programming informed by this framework may involve interventions that address each of these pillars, such as:

      • promoting sustainable agriculture practices to enhance availability,
      • improving market access and income generation strategies to improve access,
      • promoting nutrition and safety education and behavior change interventions to encourage utilization, cultural acceptability, and safety,
      • implementing social protection programs to enhance stability.

       

      4. Public-Private Partnerships Demonstrated to Have Contributed to Building Resilience The global dairy industry can provide examples of recent partnerships and initiatives demonstrated to contribute to building food system resilience.

      Example 1: Dairy Nourishes Africa (DNA), a public-private partnership which leverages the collective strength of Global Dairy Platform as well as community and governmental stakeholders, to drive the accelerated transformation of African dairy industries. DNA takes a market-led, value- chain approach to foster and support activity throughout the dairy ecosystem. DNA has grown consumer demand, driven farmer-allied intermediaries, significantly increased farmer production, enhanced women’s active participation throughout the value chain, improved environmental sustainability, and created a supportive and interconnected operating environment in which the dairy industry can thrive.

      DNA launched in Tanzania in 2020, where the objective was to develop scalable and replicable business models. In 2021, DNA leveraged its learnings and expanded into Kenya. Subsequent scaling in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Rwanda are on the horizon.

      The DNA initiative was founded by GDP in partnership with Land O’Lakes, Venture37, and Bain & Company. The DNA initiative aims to contribute to the achievement of several SDGs as it relates to ending hunger, providing nutritious food, ending stunting, and promoting sustainable agriculture. To date, the impact of DNA has been the following:

      • Reaching more than 10 million consumers through targeted marketing and behavior change campaigns, ensuring access to safe and nutritious foods across East Africa.
      • Nourishing more than 40,000 children daily through school feeding programs.
      • Supporting 45,000 farmers to enhance on-farm productivity and economics.
      • Accelerating and incubating more than 50 leading dairy enterprises through the promotion of innovative, sustainable, and farmer-allied business models.
      • Transforming the dairy industry to catalyze long-term outcomes, including:
        • 20-35%% reduction in children stunted
        • 25-55% meeting WHO recommended dairy intake
        • 3 million jobs created within the dairy sector, 70% of which are held by women
        • >20% climate mitigation from livestock

      Example 2: Dairy Sustainability Framework (DSF) is a continuous-improvement framework for the global dairy sector to responsibly align, connect and progress its sustainability efforts in a pre- competitive and collaborative way. The DSF is the sectors sustainability monitoring and reporting facility that reports annually the global dairy sector’s progress against 11 Sustainability Criteria, celebrating improvements and drawing attention to areas where greater attention is necessary.

      Members who are implementing, quantifying and providing data on their proactive sustainability efforts are also encouraged to share their solutions and experiences with sector colleagues facing similar challenges. DSF partners with over 1,000 organizations across the public and private sectors, NGOs, and dairy industry associations to provide the annual reporting. It operates on a global level. To-date, the impact of the DSF has been the following:

      • A robust monitoring and reporting framework that takes a holistic approach to solving sustainability challenges, while impacting the vast majority of SDGs it specifically contributes to SDG Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production.
      • Coverage of approximately 30% of total global dairy production, which equates to ~52% of the formal milk market. It quantifies the dairy sector’s aggregate sustainability progress at scale under 11 focused sustainability criteria.
      • Requirement of members to approach their mitigation/adaptation/improvement programs through a wide lens allowing the interrelationships between environmental, economic, and social sustainability to be understood, maximize benefits and minimize unintended consequences.
      • Development of a pre-competitive framework with a range of criteria focused platforms that has encouraged members to connect and share solutions and have increased the speed at which the sector can deliver impactful outcomes.
      • Information sharing and progress reporting that has inspired the dairy value chain to increasingly invest energy and effort in addressing the unique sustainability challenges found in a globally diverse sector producing a nutrient dense product.


      Example 3: Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ) is a first of its kind effort that brings together dairy companies, organizations and farms of every size and type to work together on their pathways toward Dairy Net Zero by 2050. With a goal of optimizing productivity and reducing emissions, P2DNZ has distinctive programs for both developed countries and emerging economies.

      P2DNZ, which started in 2021, is governed by The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Dairy Federation (IDF), SAI Platform, the IFCN Dairy Research Network, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), DSF and GDP. P2DNZ supporters include some of the largest dairy companies and organizations in the world. Partnership is prevalent throughout the P2DNZ program, with companies working on a pre-competitive basis to solve environmental-related issues.

      DNA is part of the P2DNZ focus on long-term programs that are ideal for emerging markets. DNA’s model is in line with the overall P2DNZ goal – to address food and nutritional security while simultaneously enhancing livelihoods, economic growth and delivering improved climate outcomes. DSF is also strongly tied to P2DNZ, as it is the only global measurement of key sustainability data points that can chart progress toward net zero.

      5. Lessons learned from public-private initiatives to help ensure resilient food systems

      • Investment and support across the entire value chain is vital to success.
      • Recognition of the interrelationship between nutritional, environmental, and socio-economic aspects of a sustainable food system are vital to building resilient food systems.
      • Information sharing and progress reporting drive action.
      • The importance of a progressive policy framework that both supports and drives the right behaviors.
      • The role of agriculture beyond the production of nutrition. Dairy, for example, is the world’s number one traded commodity by value and number three by volume and provides employment for approximately 1 billion people globally.

      Agriculture (sequestration/ bioenergy production) is one of the most important components for governments in delivering mitigation opportunities under their nationally determined contributions.

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