food security and sustainability

1. Post-2015 Agenda
Sustainable Development Goals
Opportunities for FAO

2. Today we won’t
Reply to all questions
Present each and every possible
synergy between Post-2015 and
relevant processes and initiatives
Provide one fit for all recipes on how
to implement SDGs and create
synergies

3. Today we will
• Provide general overview on SDGs and their
relevance to FAO’s policy work
• Identify key linkages of SDGs with already
existing initiatives and processes
• Share information and ideas on how to
maximize use and consistence of processes
and initiatives
• Map key resource people to collaborate
with

4. SDGs - UN System Reset
- SDGs are intergovernmentally negotiated, and owned
by countries
- Many countries will use the SDGs as the main reference
to prepare new national SD commitments and plans
- Countries will look to international community for
coordinated and integrated policy support
- FAO’s perspectives are strongly represented
- Internal and external initiatives are already in place to
help FAO to play its role
- UN System gets ready for immediate implementation
after Post-2015 Summit in September

5. SDGs – What’s new
MDGs SDGs
Mainly for Developing Countries UNIVERSAL – Common but differentiated
responsibilities
8 siloed goals for development 17 goals integrating 3 dimensions of
sustainable development
Launched by the UN secretariat Negotiated by MS /country ownership
Funding, monitoring, and other
MoI established later
Architecture, financial and non financial
MoI in the Post-2015 Summit package

6. SDGs a new integrated framework for
Sustainable Development
Goal 2 is very much inspired by the Zero Hunger
Challenge
The targets address:
Food security – Access to food
Malnutrition – In all dimensions
Smallholder productivity and incomes
Sustainable and resilient agricultural production
Agricultural biodiversity

7. SDGs a new integrated framework for
Sustainable Development
Complementary targets under other Goals (1, 6, 7, 12, 13,
14, 15) address:
 Food losses and waste
 Equal access to land and natural resources
 Rural-urban linkages
 Resilience and adaptation to climate change
 Sustainable use and management of water; energy; marine
resources; ecosystems; forests; mountains; land/soils, genetic
resources

8. Means of Implementation
Complementary targets under other Goals (1, 6, 7, 12, 13,
14, 15) address:
 Food losses and waste
 Equal access to land and natural resources
 Rural-urban linkages
 Resilience and adaptation to climate change
 Sustainable use and management of water; energy; marine
resources; ecosystems; forests; mountains; land/soils, genetic
resources

9. Initiatives 1 – The HLTF and the ZHC
• What is the HLTF?
• How FAO contributes to it
• HLTF work on ZHC and its relevance to the
implementation of SDG2 and beyond

10. ICN2 follow up
• The outcome document/PoA
• Advocacy initiatives/movements that can support:
ZHC and SUN/REACH (short description of what
these initiatives are)

11. The Nutrition Opportunity
•Overview of Nutrition developments
•Global nutrition agenda in the SDGs: 6 goals and 18
targets
•Key nutrition challenges relate to governance:
Integration across sectors, private sector roles
•FAO strategy and supports

12. How to support country initiatives
• Bring HLTF WG work into country teams
• …

13. FAO Post-2015 contacts/channels
• Lead: Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Assistant Director-General, Coordinator for
Economic and Social Development
• Focal point: Boubaker Ben-Belhassen
Director, Trade and Markets Division
• Website: http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/en/
• E-bulletin: sign in!
• Twitter: FAOpost2015
• Partner zone: the Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/fao-partner-zone

14. Post-2015 materials/reports
• Report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable
Development Goals – July 2014
• Synthesis report of the Secretary-General on the
post-2015 sustainable development agenda –
December 2014
• Zero Draft of the Outcome Document of the Third
Financing for Development Conference – March
2015
• A review of the Open Working Group Report from
the perspective of FAO Member interests – August
2014
• Issue papers on FAO's 14 themes – March 2014

15. Questions for discussion
• What is it happening at field level on all this?
(SDG/ZHC, SUN, etc?)
• What would you need for the all it was presented to
become reality at decentralized level, and thus to
increase FAO’s visibility and effectiveness?