Food Policy Forum for Change
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National Agroecology Strategies (NAS): lighthouses for food system transformation
About: National Agroecology Strategies are overarching framework that strengthens a country’s food system policies and puts agroecology on the policy agenda. In the Eastern and Southern African context, NASs are based on a holistic approach that considers various parts of a food system. In the context of a unprecedented dynamic in Eastern and Southern Africa to develop such strategies, the Food Policy Forum for Change and Biovision are supporting countries at the national level and organized a Peer-to-Peer exchange (P2P) on the topic of NAS in October 2023 among policymakers– and shapers from Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. More details here.
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Policy makers and official advisors in relevant ministries, departments, commissions etc., at national and subnational levels in the agriculture, nutrition, rural development, environment, finance and planning sectors.
Our peer-to-peer exchanges and other activities are mainly targeting policy shapers and makers in Sub-Saharan Africa but we also organise public events and activities for larger audiences.
The forum focuses on integrative policies that emphasise long-term productivity, greater resource-use efficiency, enhanced ecological functions, improved resilience, soil restoration/protection, biodiversity promotion, improved rural livelihoods, and equity and social well-being.
SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPEMENT OF EFFECTIVE POLICIES THAT TRANSFORM FOOD SYSTEMS
Our peer-to-peer exchanges, consist of face-to-face, on-line and informal meetings with selected policy shapers and makers. The exchanges focus on relevant themes like national agroecology strategies or how agroecology can support efforts to fight biodiversity loss.
Join our public events on various topics concerning agroecology policy and food system transformation and meet policy shapers and makers engaged or interested in transforming food systems through novel integrative approaches.
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WHY IS ACTION NEEDED?
Agriculture and food systems urgently need to change if we want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The need for swift action has been heightened by the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, which has revealed major vulnerabilities in our food systems and supply chains. These weaknesses will be exacerbated in the face of climate change and population growth.
More and more governments are exploring approaches that can substantially contribute to the transformations urgently needed to shape sustainable food systems. Such approaches should be underpinned by integrative policies that emphasize greater resource-use efficiency, ensure long-term productivity, enhance ecological functions, improve resilience, restore degraded soils, promote biodiversity, improve rural livelihoods, and increase equity and social well-being.
There is a rapidly increasing number of evidence-based and convincing examples of effective and successful practices and policies based on these principles. We now need to connect efforts in order to learn from each other, as well as share and validate experiences, so that we can enhance co-operations in transforming food systems.
The challenges imposed by climate change, the current pandemic and the call for social change are creating momentum to reshape and revise food and agricultural policies across the world. This has the potential to enhance the resilience and sustainability of food systems. We want to support this process and build upon it.
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These activities are led by a consortium of prominent organizations in the fields of sustainable food systems and support to agricultural policy processes, namely: Biovision Foundation, IFOAM – Organics, with support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
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