Transcript Right to Food: Value Chain Perspective

Dr. Ram Boojh
Programme Chief
UNESCO Cluster Office for South Asia
New Delhi
[email protected]
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Haiyan: one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded devastated
Philippines, Viet Nam and Palau , stressed that the countries least
responsible for climate change are those most affected
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Countries continue to pour billions into the industries that are
fueling climate change- main cause for disasters
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Diplomats at the UN Climate Change conference in Warsaw,
Poland , watched the impact of the typhoon on the Philippines
but could not do much. The conference envoy from the
Philippines even started a hunger strike in protest of the lack of
action.
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World is currently debating a new post 2015 sustainable
development goal to replace the MDGs as a follow up of Rio+20
which called for establishing a new sustainable development
global order built around economic growth, the environment and
social inclusion.
The 53-page outcome document, The Future We Want, adopted at
Rio+20 aims to lay the groundwork for a green economy and
replace the MDGs which expire in 2015.
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon called the outcome document
a blueprint for making the world a brighter, safer place.
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
• Millennium Summit of UN, 2000, Adoption of UN Millennium Declaration
• 193 UN Member State + 23 International Organizations Agreement to Achieve 8
Goals with 23 Targets by 2015
• Achieving Dates on Specific Targets
• Financial Supports by WB, IMF, AfDB (Cancel Debt for HIPC, 2011,
33 sub-Saharan Africa/ 39 States)
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Eradicating extreme Poverty + Hunger,
Achieving Universal Primary Education,
Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women,
Reducing Child Mortality Rates,
Improving Maternal Health
Combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other Diseases,
Ensuring Environmental Sustainability, and
Developing a Global Partnership for Development.
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Target 1.C of MDG 1 aims to ‘halve, between 1990 and 2015,
the proportion of people who suffer from hunger’.
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According to the MDG Report for 2011, the proportion of
people in the developing world who went hungry in 20052007 remained stable at 16 per cent, despite significant
reductions in extreme poverty.
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The MDGs are interlinked; progress in one goal supports
progress in others. Supporting sustainable agriculture and
rural development helps increase food production and
reduces poverty and hunger. Food and nutritional security
are the foundations of a decent life, a sound education and
the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
RIO+20: There is a need to address food and energy as the main and critical
driver of sustainable development and the new global Climate Change deal
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) affirms
Right to Adequate Food for All.
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Access to adequate food in the rural areas of many
developing countries depends heavily on access to
natural resources, including water, that are necessary
to produce food.
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UN General Assembly declared access to clean drinking
water and sanitation as a human right on 28 July 2010.
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Right to Water in the context of the Right to Food is a
complex question.
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it is necessary to put right to food at the heart of international
climate change negotiations.
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Investing in a food-secure model using small-scale fiscal stimuli that
mobilise the untapped potential of local producers is imperative.
Small-scale processes can provide a mechanism to foster
sustainable solutions to the problems of food and water security
and spread benefits more evenly across communities of farmers
and consumers alike.
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Small-scale farming and organic, agro-ecological methods are the
way forward to solve the current food crisis and meet the needs of
local communities. The benefits of organic farming as a means to
address food security and ecosystem resilience
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Badly managed development
Environmental degradation
Poor governance and a lack of respect for
human rights increase the numbers of
vulnerable and impoverished people living
at risk
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Two waves of change – long term climate
change and immediate economic crises – are
bringing the issue of food security into sharper
relief, particularly where food security is
already volatile and faces a series of risks and
challenges.
Climate change adds urgency and the need for
renewed focus and prioritisation, as well as
ensuring that adaptation is wholly integrated
into natural resource management, land use
policies and especially into broader long-term
macro-economic frameworks.
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Right to food is impacted by disaster
By thinking of lack of food as a disaster
situations, and providing access to food as
disaster management, the value chain
problems can be better addressed within
existing programs and frameworks
Within logistics the most important thing is
to have access to food and the right to proper
dietary supplement and nutrition
conceptual shift
in thinking away
from post-disaster reaction to
pre-disaster action
vital role in constructing a global culture of
disaster risk reduction
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Multidisciplinary knowledge base,
Education, Science & Culture;
 Laboratory of ideas
 Standard setting
 Capacity building
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DESD:
 Manpower training
 Skill development
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Water program
 Assist in quality of food
UNDESD – United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development
Disaster reduction recognized as an integral component
of sustainable development(Rio 1992Chapter 3 of Agenda
21).
WSSD Johannesburg: cross-sectoral nature of disaster
risk reduction were once again underlined in 2002 at the
UNDESD- 2005-2015-Major thrust on education for
disaster risk reduction and sustainable development
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“Education for disaster risk reduction is an
interactive process of mutual learning among
people and institutions. It encompasses far more
than formal education at schools and universities,
and involves the recognition and use of traditional
wisdom and local knowledge for protection from
natural hazards”
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UNDESD is supported by the Hyogo
Framework for Action 2005 – 2015: “Building
the Resilience of Nations and Communities to
Disasters”, adopted by 168 Member States at
the World Conference on Disaster Reduction,
2005, Kobe, Japan, which highlights the
importance of education and learning as part
of its priorities for action, using knowledge,
innovation and education to build a culture of
safety and resilience at all levels.
Wealth of
knowledge &
information
Public Education
for informed
decisions &
resilience
Reducing risk &
vulnerability
requires
building
people’s
understanding
& skills
Education for
disaster risk
reduction is an
interactive process
of mutual learning
among people and
institutions
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Community Led Approaches
Community-led
approaches – based
on local people's
priorities and
capacities – are more
likely to be selfsustaining
• In Andhra Pradesh, selling indigenous seeds
has developed into an annual Biodiversity
Festival, celebrating traditional farming across
65 villages.
• Individuals affected can cope far better if the
community responds collectively to the threat.
Disasters getting
more complex,
demanding action
across many sectors
• Catastrophic mortality from diseases blurs the boundary
between disaster and development.
• Coalitions of communities, aid organizations and
governments must combine the urgency of humanitarian
response with the longer-term, integrated approach of
development.
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Supporting community resilience is the key to reducing disaster impact
Assessing and supporting
local resilience, rather
than focusing only on
need and vulnerability
shift towards identifying
and supporting livelihoods
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Partners: Agropolis international institutions/ Agropolis
Foundation
 Study : World’s dynamic food systems, similarities and
differences, human & environmental impacts
 Dissemination: Scientific & technical knowledge, economic &
technological "memory" of local food systems, agricultural & food
policies, management operations in supply chains;
 Knowledge exchange: Strategic issues such as the Right to food,
global food security and building sustainable territorialized agrifood chains;
 Co-development: strengthening an international scientific and
educational network focusing on the issue "how to well feed the
planet in a viable way”
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Established in 2007 at EPFL, Switzerland
operates as an international cooperation
platform, building bridges among
disciplines and sectors & aims to find
adapted technology solutions to bring
sustainable development to the greatest
number of people.
Environment Science and technology for
disaster risk reduction
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Established In 2006. ICHARM deals with water-related disasters such as floods
and droughts, which are major challenges that need to be overcome in order to
ensure sustainable human development and poverty alleviation.
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