the un food systems summit: the key role of research and

The UN Food Systems Summit: The key role of research and innovation policy for food system transformationExploring Options to strengthen our Global Science Policy Interface for improved Food Systems Governance

Ismahane ElouafiChief Scientist, FAO

Exploring Options to strengthen our Global Science Policy Interface for improved Food Systems Governance

10% live in extreme poverty

Hunger, inequality and poverty are critical global problems

Growing inequalities:more than 3 billion people in the world

can not afford a healthy diet

690 million people

are hungry

and a number of threats areincreasing the risk of global crises

Pests: desert locust, fall armyworm

Extreme weather events:

natural disasters, drought

Conflict: Threatens food

security

Before COVID-19, the world was already facing enormous challenges


We are off track to reach the Sustainable Development Goals!

But also: Significant data gaps remain!

Agri-Food SystemsTransformation

Scaling climate resilience in our food systems

Integrated humanitarian, development and peacebuilding policies in conflict zones

Strengthen the economic resilience of the most vulnerable

Intervene throughout the supply chain to increase farmers' incomes & reduce the cost of nutritious food

Pursue food systems with low negative impacts on health and the environment

Address structural inequalities, ensuring that interventions are pro-poor and inclusive

… we need data, science and innovation


United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021

Creating a system of follow-up and review to ensure that the Summit’s outcomes continue to drive new actions and progress.


Overview of Areas of Work on the UN Food Systems Summit


TORs of the UNFSS Scientific Group

1. Evidence-based, drawing on best science, respecting diverse knowledge base, practicing peer review

2. Engaging in Action Tracks of FSS with expertise from research making the tracks evidence-informed

3. Bringing science into FSS Dialogues at national and regional levels through science networks and partnerships

4. Contributing to the FSS agenda and follow-up after the Summit. Output: evidence based policy options

(29 members; selected by excellence, diverse fields of science, regions )

https://sc-fss2021.org/


Food Systems – Definition, Concept and Application for the UN Food Systems Summit

Healthy diet: A definition for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021

AT1 - Ensure Safe and Nutritious Food for All

AT2 - Shift to Sustainable Consumption Patterns

AT3 - Boost Nature Positive Production

AT4 - Advance Equitable Livelihoods

AT5 - Build Resilience to Vulnerabilities, Shocks and Stress

To come: Sc Group “Agenda paper“

Scientific Group addresses key FSS issues


In the age of pandemics, connecting food systems and health

Reduction of Food Loss and Waste

A New Paradigm for Plant Nutrition

The Bioeconomy and Food Systems Transformation (LAC)

Ending Hunger by 2030 – policy actions and costs

To come:

Briefs on trade, finance, gender, youth, science, R&D, urban, indigenous food systems, farms, oceans, livestock, nexus agroecology, biodiversity…; countries and regions in Africa, Latin America, Asia; Modelling the food systems changeshttps://sc-fss2021.org/materials/fss-briefs-by-partners-of-scientific-group/

Scientific Group partnering with science communities to address key FSS issues …

https://sc-fss2021.org/materials/fss-briefs-by-partners-of-scientific-group/


Organized by the Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 and facilitated and hosted by FAO.

Assess science-based options to achieve more healthy diets and more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable food systems.

Explore the frontiers of science to catalyze food systems transformation to achieve SDG2.

Critically assess risks, opportunities, and controversies in science and innovation

Engage in dialogues to strengthen the science–policy interface

UNFSS Science Days – July 2021


Instiutional and organizational innovations: We need a stronger science - policyinterface

Evidence-basedpolicy making

Policy

Translating science to inform policy

Communicating policy issues in need for scientific input

Scientific Guidance


HLPE is the Science-policy interface of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS), the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition for all.

Created, appointed, mandated by the CFS but working independently

The HLPE has to address the multidisciplinary complexity of food security and nutrition

Demand-driven, tight agenda, present status of knowledge

The High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition


Food Security and Nutrition:Building a Global Narrative towards 2030


Agricultural innovation

Agricultural innovation is the process whereby individuals or organizationsbring new or existing products, processes or ways of organization into usefor the first time in a specific context in order to increase effectiveness,competitiveness, resilience to shocks or environmental sustainability andthereby contribute to food security and nutrition, economic developmentor sustainable natural resource management.

http://www.fao.org/innovation/en/

http://www.fao.org/innovation/en/

Technological: digital, biotechnological, renewable energy, etc. Agroecology and other sustainable

agricultural approaches Supply chains Policy Institutional Social Financial

Types of Innovation to transform agri-food systems


The Four Betters

BETTER PRODUCTION

BETTER NUTRITION

BETTER ENVIRONMENT

BETTER LIFE

…but we need to understand how and where to use them

Technology

Innovation

Data

Complements (governance,

human capital, institutions)

We know the accelerators of change...and cannot transform food systems without them…

Gender Youth Inclusion


Supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life, leaving no one behind.

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2021 is an important opportunity to transformfood systems. Now is the time! Science and Innovation are essential to achieve

more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems Science can play a crucial role in identifying

synergies and trade-offs We need New and enabling policies & closing

remaining data gaps We must link efforts to advance science-based

policymaking at the global level to those undertaken at regional and national levels.


KEY MESSAGES

Thank you for your attention!

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