The document discusses how female farmers in South Africa are working to build resilience against climate change and food insecurity through sustainable agriculture projects. The projects are funded by the EU and implemented in partnership with local organizations. They teach ecological organic farming practices like food gardens and renewable energy. Participating women say the projects have helped them provide for their families and tackle poverty without relying on government assistance. The efforts both strengthen food security and highlight the challenges of climate change impacts.

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Sustainable Development Goal 12
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
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Progress of goal 12
Economic growth and development require the production of goods and services that
improve the quality of life. Sustainable growth and development require minimizing the
natural resources and toxic materials used, and the waste and pollutants generated,
throughout the entire production and consumption process.
Two measures, material footprint and domestic material consumption, provide an
accounting of global material extraction and use, as well as flows or consumption of
materials in countries. The material footprint reflects the amount of primary materials
required to meet a country’s needs. It is an indicator of the material standard of living or
level of capitalization of an economy. Domestic material consumption measures the
amount of natural resources used in economic processes.
In 2010, the total material footprint in developed regions was significantly higher than that
of developing regions, 23.6 kg per unit of GDP versus 14.5 kg per unit of GDP, respectively.
The material footprint of developing regions increased from 2000 to 2010, with non-
metallic minerals showing the largest increase.
Domestic material consumption in developed regions has diminished slightly, from 17.5
tons per capita in 2000 to 15.3 tons per capita in 2010. It remains significantly higher than
the value for developing regions, which stood at 8.9 tons per capita in 2010. Domestic
material consumption per capita increased in almost all developing regions from 2000 to
2010, except in Africa, where it remained relatively stable (around 4 tons per capita), and
Oceania, where it decreased from around 10.7 to 7.7 tons per capita. The rise in domestic
material consumption per capita in Asia during that period is primarily a result of rapid
industrialization.
The Basel Convention on the Control of Trans boundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes
and Their Disposal, the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure
for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade and the Stockholm
Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants established international frameworks to
achieve the environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes, chemicals and
persistent organic pollutants. With six exceptions, all Member States are party to at least
one of those conventions. The number of parties to those conventions rose significantly
from 2005 to 2015, particularly in Africa and Oceania. There are now 183 parties to the
Basel Convention, 180 to the Stockholm Convention and 155 to the Rotterdam Convention.
Source: Report of the Secretary-General, "Progress towards the Sustainable Development
Goals", E/2016/75
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Goal 12 Targets
12.1
Implement the 10-year framework of programs on sustainable consumption and
production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking
into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
12.2
By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
12.3
By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce
food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses
12.4
By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes
throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and
significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse
impacts on human health and the environment
12.5
By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling
and reuse
12.6
Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable
practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
12.7
Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national
policies and priorities
12.8
By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for
sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
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Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to
move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
12. B
Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable
tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
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Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by
removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by
restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect
their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of
developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in
a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities

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United Nations central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals
[19 July 2016] UN chief launches first report to track Sustainable Development Goals
HLPF TIMELINE
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High-Level Political Forum 2017
The meeting of the high-level political forum on sustainable development in 2017
convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council, will be held from Monday,
10 July, to Wednesday, 19 July 2017; including the three-day ministerial meeting of the
forum from Monday, 17 July, to Wednesday, 19 July 2017. The theme will be "Eradicating
poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world". The set of goals to be reviewed in
depth will be the following, including Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and
revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development that will be considered each
year:
● Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
● Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable
agriculture
● Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
● Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
● Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
and foster innovation
● Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for
sustainable development
Member states and National Voluntary Reviews
The High-level Political Forum provides for the full and effective participation of all States
Members of the United Nations and States members of specialized agencies

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Sus·tain·a·b le de·vel·op·ment
noun
noun: sustainable development

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1. Economic development that is conducted without depletion of natural resources.
"international policies should support sustainable development" "sustainable development
has become the guiding theme in much environmental literature".
Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-consumption-production/
Sustainable consumption and production is about promoting resource and energy
efficiency, sustainable infrastructure, and providing access to ...
Goal 12—Ensuring Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns...
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production-patterns-essential-requirement
Goal 12 of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) proposed by the Open Working Group
(OWG) of the General Assembly of the United Nations is aiming at...
Goal 12. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg12
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. Goal 12 TARGETS. REVIEW. Goal
12 will be reviewed at the High-level Political Forum in 2018.
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N at I o n al Rep o r t in g to CSD 18/19 by Switzerland 1 |P age
SUST AIN ABL E
CONSUMPTI ON AND
PRODUCTION PATTERNS
• (THE TEN‐YEAR FRAMEWORK OF PROGRAMMES)
In s t r u m en t s for s u stain n a b l e consumption
1. The Confederation disposes of a set of instruments for restructuring present
production and consumption patterns towards greater sustainability. Targeting the
awareness of consumers, the Confederation has committed itself to supporting the
demand for products which fulfill sustainable criteria throughout the production
chain (as described in the Sustainable Development Strategy: Guidelines and Action
Plan 2008–2011”). Furthermore, the necessary information and documentation
should be available to enable private consumers to recognize sustainable products.
Eco-social labels
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3. As part of its strategy, the Federal Council therefore wishes to assess the expediency
of recognizing and promoting eco-social labels that contribute to sustainable
development. Contrary to regulations on marking and product declaration, eco-
social labels are used voluntarily to label a product or a service. The promotion of
eco-social labels is embedded in the respective sect oral policies (e.g. environmental,
economic, energy and social policies). The promotion is primarily the responsibility
of private organizations, and in this area, the Confederation should play a subsidiary
role. In this regard, Switzerland supports PUSCH3, the information Cen t re for
environmental and social labels, Switzerland also works informally in European
environmental label working groups, and collaborates with the European
Commission with a view to Swiss participation in the European eco-label scheme.
Information to consumers to improve their environmental impacts
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4. In 2006 a study4 evaluating the environmental impacts of housing, of private
transportation, of consumer goods and services, of food supply and of public utilities
in Switzerland was conducted. The results of this study can be used by consumers to
improve their environmental impacts. It concentrates primarily on the potential for
improvement of the environmental balance, by identifying the key factors, actors
and decisions for the environmental impact and then deriving consumption
scenarios that are environmentally sustainable. The results are interesting to note:
by adopting a series of scenarios coinciding as closely as possible with the present
Swiss lifestyle the environmental impact of a consumer can be reduced by one third,
at no extra cost. A second study on consumer behavior is soon to be published on
the website of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) 5.
5 S C P In national priority areas
1. Since the 1980s, Switzerland has implemented numerous measures to reduce
pressure on the environment caused by consumption. In the Sustainable
Development Strategy: Guidelines and Action Plan 2008–2011” of the Federal
Council, the change process needed in order to achieve the goals of sustainable
production and consumption is recognized as a key challenges.

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SA's female farmers building resilience,
fighting hunger
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Women in Gauteng, Limpopo, and the Western Cape are tackling climate change and agriculture
issues, as World Food Day is being celebrated across the globe under the theme "Climate is
changing. Food and agriculture must too", with innovative programs in their communities.
The women are implementing resilient climate change adaptation and ecological organic
farming projects that fight poverty and hunger through sustainable agriculture practices
such as food gardens and renewable energy, despite the aftermath of the El Niño-induced
drought in the region.
These practices form part of a European Union (EU) funded project called Sustainable Use
of Natural Resources to Improve Resilience in South Africa: a Grassroots Women’s Initiative,
implemented by Earth life Africa JHB, Genders Southern Africa in partnership with Oxfam.

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Such efforts strengthen the struggles to realize the right to food in South Africa, whilst also
highlighting the challenges of climate change.
The project’s aims are to benefit women across eight sites in three provinces: Gauteng –
Magaliesburg, KwaThema, Vaal and Soweto; Limpopo – Giyani and Tzaneen; Western Cape
– Green Park and Khayelitsha.
Research commissioned by Oxfam shows some disturbing truths about what hunger
actually means: a child trying to feed her four siblings on R6 a day, a woman who is taunted
for taking low paid jobs and being poor, a man who feels less of a father for not being able
to feed his children properly. However, in this project the feedback and reflections of the
project participants and partners have been rather positive.
“The project helped me a lot, now I am able to provide for my family without always
expecting something from the government,” said Alice Dhladhla, a member of the
Community Working Group (CWG) from Khangezile Primary School, Kwa-Thema. “Poverty
needs to be tackled and sustainable agriculture is a step towards fighting poverty,” said
Dhladhla.