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Co-Organized by IFPRI and Embrapa
MAY 15, 2018 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT
This document summarizes Shenggen Fan's presentation on challenges facing global food systems and recommendations to address them in a sustainable way. It outlines issues like 815 million people facing hunger, 155 million children stunted, and 2.1 billion overweight/obese. Rapid population growth and other trends are impacting agriculture. It recommends encouraging trade, investing in technologies to benefit health and environment, prioritizing policies for nutrition and sustainability, closing gender gaps, and promoting inclusive value chains and governance.
Shenggen Fan discusses the challenges facing the livestock sector including rapid urbanization, rising inequality, food safety concerns, and antimicrobial resistance. Livestock is key for smallholder livelihoods by providing income, assets, and risk management. Consumption of animal sourced foods is important for nutrition, especially in developing countries, where it is associated with reduced stunting. The livestock sector accounts for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from enteric fermentation and feed production. Policy innovations will play a key role in ensuring livestock practices improve nutrition and sustainability while mitigating climate change.
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Shenggen Fan
SPECIAL EVENT
Transforming Agriculture: Experiences and Insights from Brazil and Beyond
Co-Organized by IFPRI and Embrapa
MAY 15, 2018 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT
This document summarizes Shenggen Fan's presentation on challenges facing global food systems and recommendations to address them in a sustainable way. It outlines issues like 815 million people facing hunger, 155 million children stunted, and 2.1 billion overweight/obese. Rapid population growth and other trends are impacting agriculture. It recommends encouraging trade, investing in technologies to benefit health and environment, prioritizing policies for nutrition and sustainability, closing gender gaps, and promoting inclusive value chains and governance.
Shenggen Fan discusses the challenges facing the livestock sector including rapid urbanization, rising inequality, food safety concerns, and antimicrobial resistance. Livestock is key for smallholder livelihoods by providing income, assets, and risk management. Consumption of animal sourced foods is important for nutrition, especially in developing countries, where it is associated with reduced stunting. The livestock sector accounts for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from enteric fermentation and feed production. Policy innovations will play a key role in ensuring livestock practices improve nutrition and sustainability while mitigating climate change.
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1. The document describes a pilot program at Children's Hospital Colorado that aimed to influence healthy eating through price differentials. Unhealthy foods like fries and cheeseburgers were paired with healthy alternatives like vegetable sides and grilled chicken sandwiches.
2. The prices of the unhealthy foods were slightly increased while the healthy alternative prices were slightly decreased, making the healthy options relatively cheaper. Sales data from before and during the four-week pilot program in June 2015 was analyzed.
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3) ACF advocates for longer funding cycles for nutrition-specific interventions like acute malnutrition management, and increasing domestic investment alongside external funding for comprehensive nutrition packages. ACF staff are actively advocating in relevant subgroups.
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The document discusses an environmental organization that works on climate and energy issues in South Africa, forests in the Congo Basin, and fisheries in Senegal. It promotes ecological farming as a solution to industrial agriculture, and advocates for policies supporting small-scale ecological farming. Research results from Kenya and Malawi found farmers practicing ecological farming could earn more than those using chemicals. The document seeks researchers and funders to scale up its work and makes recommendations for governments and funders to shift strategies and investments to support ecological farming.
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Shenggen Fan outlines key actions needed to reshape the global food system for human and planetary health. Technological innovations in areas like drought-resistant crops, precision agriculture, and biofortification can boost yields while improving nutrition and environmental sustainability. Policy reforms are also needed, including taxing unhealthy foods to promote healthy diets, reforming subsidies, and strengthening women's rights. Institutional changes like coordinated food governance systems and inclusive value chains can further support progress. International cooperation through knowledge sharing and South-South learning will be essential to accelerating progress on these challenges.
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1. The document describes a pilot program at Children's Hospital Colorado that aimed to influence healthy eating through price differentials. Unhealthy foods like fries and cheeseburgers were paired with healthy alternatives like vegetable sides and grilled chicken sandwiches.
2. The prices of the unhealthy foods were slightly increased while the healthy alternative prices were slightly decreased, making the healthy options relatively cheaper. Sales data from before and during the four-week pilot program in June 2015 was analyzed.
3. The results showed decreases in sales of the targeted unhealthy foods and increases in the healthy alternative foods while maintaining overall revenue neutrality. The program was well-received by employees and had positive public health implications. Continued experiments with price differentials were
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1) The document discusses stocktaking and potential priorities for the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Community of Practice (COP1) meeting in 2015, based on publications by Action Contre la Faim (ACF) on aid for nutrition.
2) It notes several issues including a lack of alignment between country costed plans, the OECD DAC nutrition code, and SUN definitions of nutrition-specific interventions. Disaggregated data by intervention is also lacking.
3) ACF advocates for longer funding cycles for nutrition-specific interventions like acute malnutrition management, and increasing domestic investment alongside external funding for comprehensive nutrition packages. ACF staff are actively advocating in relevant subgroups.
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The document discusses an environmental organization that works on climate and energy issues in South Africa, forests in the Congo Basin, and fisheries in Senegal. It promotes ecological farming as a solution to industrial agriculture, and advocates for policies supporting small-scale ecological farming. Research results from Kenya and Malawi found farmers practicing ecological farming could earn more than those using chemicals. The document seeks researchers and funders to scale up its work and makes recommendations for governments and funders to shift strategies and investments to support ecological farming.
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The CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub has the following strengths:
1) It is supported by 15 CGIAR research centers with local presences in 108 countries and over 50 years of agricultural research experience and partnerships.
2) The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is one of the research centers supporting the hub, with the goal of improving lives through livestock research.
3) The hub aims to mitigate risks of antimicrobial resistance associated with agricultural sectors through surveillance, reducing antimicrobial use, improving biosecurity, and building capacity.
In this presentation, key elements and local experiences with transformative agriculture policies are presented. The presentation was held by Vitumbiko Chinoko CARE International at the Policy Advantage event, part of the Agriculture Advantage 2.0 series at COP24.
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Shenggen Fan outlines key actions needed to reshape the global food system for human and planetary health. Technological innovations in areas like drought-resistant crops, precision agriculture, and biofortification can boost yields while improving nutrition and environmental sustainability. Policy reforms are also needed, including taxing unhealthy foods to promote healthy diets, reforming subsidies, and strengthening women's rights. Institutional changes like coordinated food governance systems and inclusive value chains can further support progress. International cooperation through knowledge sharing and South-South learning will be essential to accelerating progress on these challenges.
1) The document discusses priorities for reshaping the global agri-food system through global cooperation in order to address challenges to human nutrition and planetary health.
2) It recommends targeting investments in key technologies for health and the environment like improved, climate-resilient crop varieties and nutrition-driven technologies to help end hunger and malnutrition.
3) Global cooperation on issues like addressing cross-boundary diseases, implementing climate-smart agriculture, and closing the gender gap in agriculture will be important, and effective governance mechanisms are needed to monitor progress.
This document discusses innovations needed to reshape food systems in Asia for human and planetary health. It notes that while malnutrition has decreased, multiple burdens persist and goals are not on track. Comprehensive research and policy, institutional, and technological innovations are imperative. Reforms like subsidizing nutritious foods, social protection programs, reducing food loss, empowering women, and new crop varieties and production methods can help achieve nutrition and sustainability goals. Coordinated action across sectors with strong institutions is critical to accelerating progress.
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Kazal 6f measurement and policy feedback final 1Sizwan Ahammed
Based on various information sources, trainees will learn about the status of food security and nutrition in Bangladesh, as well as research activities and policies related to food security and nutrition. Key policies aim to improve food and nutrition security through priority investment programs, including those focused on agriculture, fisheries, livestock, food access, and nutrition. Challenges to implementing these programs and achieving food security goals include natural disasters, volatile food prices, and lack of income generation for poor people.
Shenggen Fan presented an outline for a book on agricultural development in a changing world. The outline discussed 3 main points: 1) Rapid transformation has occurred in agriculture over past decades across issues like globalization, regional differences, urbanization, and trade. 2) Agriculture now addresses broader goals like gender, nutrition, climate change, and finance. 3) Agricultural development must take an integrated food systems approach to identify intervention points and assess impacts across different actors and outcomes to address challenges like food security and the environment.
The document discusses the challenges facing the global agri-food system, including persistent hunger, malnutrition, disease burden, and growing issues of obesity and non-communicable diseases. The system also faces pressures from urbanization, changing diets, food safety concerns, antibiotic resistance, inequality, and environmental impacts. Innovations are key to integrating health, food, and the environment. The document proposes technological innovations like improved crops, nutrition technologies, and emerging technologies. It also suggests policy innovations like reforming subsidies and promoting sustainable diets. Institutional innovations discussed include closing the gender gap and improving governance.
IFPRI-IRRI Policy Seminar “Innovations in Science and Policy: Transforming the Rural Sector for Improved Food Security” on September 26, 2014. Presentation by Shenggen Fan, Director General of IFPRI.
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Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
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The annual scientific conference of the CGIAR collaborative platform for gender research took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
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Reshaping Food Systems: Key Policies and Investments
1. Shenggen Fan, July 2018
Shenggen Fan | Director General
International Food Policy Research Institute
New York, NY | July 11, 2018
RESHAPING
FOOD SYSTEMS:
Key policies and investments
United Nations High-level Political Forum
Side Event
2. Shenggen Fan, July 2018
Over half of SDGs relate to
food security and nutrition
The food system must be reshaped to achieve SDGs
New food system
Nutrition- & health-driven
Productive & efficient
Environmentally sustainable
& climate-smart
Inclusive
Business friendly
3. Shenggen Fan, July 2018
Prioritize policies for nutrition & health
Promote nutritious, sustainable, and healthy diets
• Tax nutrient-poor foods and subsidize nutrient-rich foods
‒ Divert funds to promote carbon neutral or low carbon food
production (e.g. Brazil’s carbon neutral beef)
• Taxing emissions-intensive foods (e.g. meat and dairy) could avoid
more than 100,000 deaths in 2020
Source: Tiffin and Arnoult 2010, WRI 2016, Springmann et al. 2016
Changes in prices and consumption
by food commodity (%)
Reform subsidies for agricultural inputs and staple crops
• Subsidies should not crowd out other public investments with
greater returns
• Convert funds to
‒ Support production of fruits and vegetables, and other nutrient-
rich foods
‒ Provide income support for vulnerable groups, including
smallholders, women, and youth
4. Shenggen Fan, July 2018
Picture sources: IRRI, New Agriculturist, and Zen Gardner
Promote evidence-based technologies
• Yield enhancing technologies (e.g. Remote sensing, precision agriculture)
• Improved, climate-resilient varieties (e.g. New Rice for Africa “NERICA”)
• Nutrition-driven and nutrition-sensitive technologies (e.g. Biofortification)
Photos: Ageitec, HarvestPlus, WEF, ICRAF
Scale up new multiple-win technologies
• Alternative proteins to reduce GHGs, environmental impact, health risks
• Gene editing for seed improvements
• Big data and analytics to lower transaction costs, improve monitoring
• Blockchain-enabled traceability
Support farmer-led innovations
• E.g. planting basins to conserve water and improve food safety
Invest in innovations to achieve multiple wins
5. Shenggen Fan, July 2018
Close gender gap in agriculture
• Ensure agriculture technologies benefit women
• Reform institutions to strengthen resource rights
• Enhance access to inputs and credit
Support inclusive institutions & effective governance
Source: Theis et al. 2017, Meinzen-Dick et al. 2017, Olney et al. 2016, Malapit and Quisumbing 2015
Encourage inclusive value chains
• Support inclusive marketing in food value chains, e.g. India’s improved
dairy chain
• Strengthen rural-urban linkages to aid food security, nutrition, and
livelihoods
Promote effective governance mechanisms
• Integrate and coordinate relevant sectors
• Enhance monitoring and accountability with data
• Consider a scientific platform for food systems
Africa Agriculture Transformation Scorecard
6. Shenggen Fan, July 2018
Upcoming global learning event bringing
together decision makers, practitioners,
researchers, and other stakeholders
Cooperation and mutual learning will be key
7. Shenggen Fan, July 2018
To ensure human and planetary health, we
must reshape food systems –
this will require robust evidence, good
governance, and strong commitment
from the international community
New Rice for Africa (Nerica), a drought-resistant, high-yielding, protein-rich variety
https://croplife.org/case-study/importance-of-herbicides-for-no-till-agriculture-in-south-america/
http://www.harvestplus.org/knowledge-market/in-the-news/driving-impact-harvestplus-annual-report-2016