The newly published White Paper from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) calls for greater collaboration between international development agencies and International Finance Institutions (IFIs) to build resilience and sustainability in the food system.
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UNDP’s new White Paper on Food Systems Resilience: acting on all levers of change for transformation.
The time for food systems transformation is now. Food is deeply interconnected with many crucial areas defining progress towards the SDGs, from climate and biodiversity, to health, poverty and inequality, gender.
Benefitting from decades of experience and driving action to take a step forward from food security to boosting resilience, UNDP has just launched its first White Paper in the area, ”Supporting Food Systems Transformation Towards Sustainability and Resilience”. The paper is a call to action for international development agencies and International Financial Institutions (IFIs) to start a new era of collaboration, stepping up the efforts to adopt a truly holistic and systemic approach.
The report points to four dimensions of action:
- Improving food systems governance for more integrated approaches
- Addressing drivers of food systems sustainability challenges, such as poverty, health issues, gender inequality and environmental degradation
- Build fairer food value chains, addressing power imbalances
- Provide sustainable finance, to support local communities and farmers and incentivize private sector investment for sustainability and resilience.
