Sustainable Development Dialogues 6 – Food Security

17. juni 2012

Food and nutrition security – Sustainable Development Dialogues 6, Rio+20, 17.06.2012.

Link til efterfølgende pressekonference.

Som del af Rio+20-konferencenen afholdes der i dagene 16.-19. juni en meget spændende serie af Sustainable Development Dialogues, som prøver at nå ind til benet af begrebet bæredygtig udvikling.
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Participants

Mr. Paulo Prada – Reuters
Mr. Carlo Petrini – Founder, President, Slow Food
Ms. Esther Penunia – Secretary-General, Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)
Ms. Hortensia Hidalgo – Indigenous Women Network of Latin America and the Caribbean for Biodiversity (RMIB)
Ms. Josette Sheeran – Vice-President, World Economic Forum
Dr. Luísa Dias Diogo – Former Prime Minister of Mozambique
Mr. Marco Marzano de Marinis – Executive Director, World Farmers Organisation
Dr. Martin Khor – Executive-Director, South Centre
Dr. Mary Robinson – Director, International Institute for the Environment and Development
Dr. Renato S. Maluf – Coordinator, Center for Food Security, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ)
Dr. Vandana Shiva – Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
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Top 10 Recommendations

For hver af de 10 dialoger er der forud opstillet 10 anbefalinger, hvor dialogerne har til formål at indskrænke antallet til tre. Den ene anbefaling fastlægges ved online afstemning med inddragelse af de virtuelle deltagere (typisk mere end 1 mio. afgivne stemmer), den anden fastlægges af panelet ved dialogernes afslutning, den tredje afgøres ligeledes ved afstemning fra salen.

De 10 anbefalinger er:

◊ Government programs to protect the environment should integrate food and nutrition security policies.
◊ Promote food systems that are sustainable and contribute to improvement of health.
◊ Develop policies to encourage sustainable production of food supplies directed to both producers and consumers.
◊ Eliminate misery and poverty-rooted malnutrition.
◊ Establish programmes to anticipate and prevent food security challenges related to climate change and natural disasters.
◊ Promote collaboration between government and the private sector to encourage more equitable and sustainable consumer choices.
◊ Promote integrated planning and greater cross-system coherence across the global food security agenda, based on closer coordination between the food, energy, water and environmental policy sectors.
◊ Plan in advance for demographic changes.
◊ Promote engagement of the private sector in policymaking related to sustainable food systems.
◊ Restrict tobacco farming.
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Final recommendations

◊ Promote food systems that are sustainable and contribute to improvement of health.
◊ Develop policies to encourage sustainable production of food supplies directed to both producers and consumers.
◊ Eliminate misery and poverty-related malnutrition. Empower women farmers, small holder farmers, young farmers and indigenous people. Ensure their access to land, water and seed as well as their full involvement in public decision making regarding food production and food and nutrition security.
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De 10 Sustainable Development Dialogues

De i alt ti dialoger er en enestående mulighed for at høre begavede mennesker fra hele verden reflektere over bæredygtig udvikling – hvad det indebærer, og hvordan den kan implementeres. Men FNs webcast-system er ganske omfattende, så jeg har lagt den engelske udgave af de ti Sustainable Development Dialogues ind på bloggen her:

1) Sustainable development as an answer to the economic and financial crises.
2) Unemployment, decent work and migrations.
3) Sustainable development for fighting poverty.
4) The economics of SD, including sustainable patterns of production and consumption.
5) Forests.
6) Food and nutrition security.
7) Sustainable energy for all.
8) Water.
9) Sustainable cities and innovation.
10) Oceans.