Food System Dialogue

Food System Dialogue

The 2nd Multistakeholder
follow-up dialogue
for UN Food Systems
Stock-taking Moment 2023

18-19 July, 2023
Ranchi, Jharkhand.

The 2nd Food System Dialogue is organized to understand our direction on the action points of UN Food Systems Summit 2021 and bring in experiences from other states. The Stock-taking Moment (STM) is in line with the commitment of the UN Secretary General and will be fed to the
process of the first of these Food Systems Stock-taking moments in 2023 in Rome.

The stock-taking moment seeks to build awareness and momentum towards the sustainable food system and serve as an opportunity to consolidate national and sub-national learning. It will identifyemerging promising patterns and solutions across the different regions of the state. This is also
an opportunity to intensify the momentum for food system transformation and to report on the progress made since the 2021 Food Systems Summit Dialogue.

Glimpses of the 1st UN Food System Dialogue

On 13th April 2021, a Food System Dialogue was organized to understand the grassroot perspective from Jharkhand where the following way forwards were proposed with immediate focus on
• Framing agriculture policy for the state of Jharkhand with strong focus on ecological farming.
• Forming a working group to facilitate action research and policy advocacy on efficacy of various nutrition sensitive farming and traditional food system
and diet diversity.
• Brining in various relevant campaigns and networks together on a platform to multiply already existing practices across the country.
• A large-scale mainstream supported program on women led climate resilient ecological farming to be framed and advocated to the government.

Agenda for the proposed 2nd Food System Dialogue
Day 1

Review of the action points on each action track focusing on the
1) state interventions | 2) CSO intervention | 3) observation in the community during
last 2 years (2021-23)
Action Track 1 | Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all
(Led by NLSU)
Action Track 2 | Shift to sustainable consumption patterns
(Led by Bhoomi Ka)
Action Track 3 | Boost nature-positive production
(Led by Welthungerhilfe)
Action Track 4 | Advance equitable livelihoods (Led by CARITAS)
Action Track 5 | Build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stress (Led by RRA)

Day 2 Further action plan on each action track including the identification of best practices, bottlenecks, capacity needs and collaboration possibilities.

Participation
Participants would include experts from GO, CSO, farmers, community leaders, academia, media, people’s representative and so on. Participants are
expected mostly from Jharkhand with representatives of important interventions from Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Rajasthan, Punjab, Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka. The outcome of the stock taking moment will be further fed into the global stock taking process that is scheduled to happen from 24th to 26th July

Relevant links:
https://www.unfoodsystemshub.org/fs-stocktaking-moment/