Under the umbrella of The World We Want 2015 campaign the consultation on Hunger, Food and Nutrition Security has co – chaired by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) together with the other Rome-based agencies, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Bioversity International, and with support of Special Representative of the Sustainable Development Goals for Food Security and Nutrition. This three phased consultation process has run between November 2012 and April 2013. Among others, Sustainable growth and diversification of food production, with specific attention to productivity of small‐scale producers was one of the main derives for the new framework in food and nutrition security. Building Sustainable Food Systems to address food wastes and promote the effective and efficient utilization of the food produced globally was another strong derives.
The issue of Food Security and Nutrition has been a big concern to number of local and international organization as the target date for Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches. As the result a number of national, regional and global consultations have been organized for the development of new framework towards addressing targeted development goals in the post 2015. Inequalities; governance, growth and development; health; education; environmental sustainability; food security and nutrition; water; energy, population and conflict are the Elven UN-led global thematic areas where consultations developed at national, international and civil societies levels.
Consultation on Hunger, food and Nutrition Security is one of the thematic areas. Under the umbrella of The World We Want 2015 campaign the consultation on Hunger, Food and Nutrition has co – chaired by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) together with the other Rome-based agencies, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Bioversity International, and with support of Special Representative of the Sustainable Development Goals for Food Security and Nutrition.
This three phased consultation process has run between November 2012 and April 2013. Among others, Sustainable growth and diversification of food production, with specific attention to productivity of small‐scale producers was one of the main derives for the new framework in food and nutrition security. Building Sustainable Food Systems to address food wastes and promote the effective and efficient utilization of the food produced globally was another strong derives. The need to Increasing resilience of agriculture production and food systems, and livelihoods, especially to the effects of climate change and (possibly) economic shocks was one of the major futures of the consultation.
The Consultation on Hunger, food and Nutrition Security process has started with a world-wide online discussion hosted by the Global Forum for Food Security and Nutrition has run between 19th of November 2012 and 10th January 2013. The forum has covered several discussions on different topics that concern food and nutrition security globally. The forum covered discussions including: Current Food Security Concepts; Women in Agriculture; Street Foods; Food Security in Protracted Crisis; Agricultural Technologies and Innovation; Climate Change and Food Security; Social Protection; and Global Governance for Food Security.
The worldwide online discussion, according to the summary produced by the moderators of the consultation, has elicited over 270 contributions from a diverse set of respondents from all countries in most of the regions, north and south, developed and developing. Contributions were essentially policy positions and views - views were not systematically supported by a review of the evidence.
The second phase consultation convened stakeholders of the Committee on World Food Security held on February 2013. As noted in the issue paper of the second consultation, this phase refine the emerging issues and suggest preliminary messages on hunger, food security and nutrition drawn from a wide group of stakeholders in support of the new Post‐2015 framework.
The issue paper has synthesised the contribution from a number global commitments, views and evidence from researches, academia and think thanks; and position paper prepared by civil societies and UN agencies. Some the contributions: The 2009 L’Aquila Joint Statement on Global Food Security, the 2009 Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, the Comprehensive Framework for Action (CFA) developed by the UN High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis (2010), the Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition (GSF) endorsed by the CFS in 2012, and various statements in the context of the Rio+20 Summit, including the SG’s “Zero Hunger Challenge”.
The objective is to identify building blocks for the post 2015 agenda drown from the lessons learnt from the design and implementation of global development goals including MDGs; trends and challenges of the future scenarios for the development of the post 2015 framework; consider the outcomes of other ongoing development processes; and elements of monitoring implementation. It builds upon several global statements that provide recommendations on ending hunger and ensuring food and nutrition security.
The full-version of the Issues Paper for the informal consultation with stakeholders of the Committee on World Food Security can be downloaded here
The third and final phase of the Global Thematic Consultation on Hunger, Food Security and Nutrition takes place in Madrid on 4 April 2013. This was a High Level Consultation which brought together a number of world wide recognized experts, important personalities, leaders from governments, international organizations, civil society, producers’ organizations, food industries, research institutions and academia. Its main objective was to stimulate a debate among participants on the findings of the previous two phases of Consultation and set out a vision and building blocks for a post 2015 global agenda.
In relation to this it is worth reflecting core messages of a paper: Food and Nutrition Security – Central issue for the post 2015 development agenda. In addition to the wide range of consultation, views and issues on food and nutrition security in beyond 2015 raised by various civil society organizations the paper has united views that should be part of the new development framework in the post 2015. It is essential that the framework should encourage actions on four pillars, outlined below, which contribute to the overall aim of achieving Food and Nutrition Security For All. According to the paper the post – 2015 framework must ensure food and nutrition security is met for all in a long-term sustainable manner. The four Pillars are:
The post-2015 framework should focus on the four pillars of FNS, namely those of:
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- availability, which refers for the need for enough adequate food to be produced and efficiently distributed,
- access, which refers to the ability to produce one’s own food or have the purchasing power to buy it
- utilisation and quality: food must be adequate for utilisation from a nutritional, sanitary, sensory and socio-cultural point of view; this pillar can also address issues of intra-household distribution
- stability; a pillar that refers to security of access and incorporates issues of price stability, securing incomes for vulnerable populations, as well as the need to ensure the long term sustainability of FNS.
The full version of the paper can be downloaded here
http://www.worldwewant2015.org/food2015
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/post2015/sites/post2015/files/files/Background_and_Agenda_HLM_on_FSN.pdf
http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/post2015/sites/post2015/files/files/Issues_Paper_Post_2015_Eng.pdf