FOOD SYSTEM DIALOGUE

Introduction

India’s food system struggles with too much food and malnutrition due to climate change, but empowering small farmers and promoting organic networks can create sustainable local food systems, ensuring fair market access, food security, and biodiversity preservation.

Bhoomi Ka’s Food System Dialogues (FSDs) support the UN’s Food Systems Summit goals by sparking discussions among stakeholders to promote sustainable food systems, aligning with the summit’s five action tracks to foster collaboration and find solutions for a resilient and fair food system. These dialogues provide a platform for engaging multiple stakeholders and aim to catalyze partnerships and innovative strategies towards achieving sustainable development goals in food systems.

Objective:

Engage stakeholders to shape the future of food systems, Showcasing implementation models for food system transformation, and. Build and support collaborative networks and partnerships for food system transformation.

The Food System Dialogue will facilitate the establishment of more sustainable food systems policies and programmes, at the local levels, underpinned by more robust and adaptive governance structures to handle the current complexities of food systems.

Action

• Establish a multi-stakeholder platform: -: Create a platform where all the players in the food system can come together. This could include farmers, food companies, government agencies, and even consumers.
• Empower leaders: Will empower public institutions to manage and guide the management of food systems to long-term outcomes.
• Map it out: – understanding the elements, drivers, and outcomes of food systems, identity who are the main actors involved, catalogue existing policies and activities related to food and agriculture, and review potential linkages with existing strategies.

Approach

Integrated interventions are planned to optimize societal outcomes (environmental, health, social, and economic), resulting from enhanced cooperation among food systems actors and addressing the drivers and trends of both unsustainable food production and consumption.

 Key aspects for discussions:

1 Promoting Sustainable Agriculture Practices for Environmental Conservation

2. Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Consumption Patterns and Reducing Food Waste.
3. Fostering Inclusive Partnerships for Sustainable Food Systems.
4. Building Effective Policy Frameworks for Sustainable Food Systems

5 .Integrating Food System Transformation with SDG Targets: Opportunities and Challenges

Outcome:

• Supporting more efficient use of natural resources and lower environmental impacts, while simultaneously improving societal outcomes (such as human health and rural livelihoods);
• Revealing underlying and root causes of unsustainable production and consumption patterns;
• Getting everyone involved in the food system to work together and think about the big picture. Farmers, food companies, governments, and consumers all need to be on the same page.
• Developing better policies and putting them into action. This will help us achieve the goals set out by the Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to create a better future for everyone.