Abstract
International food system initiatives have led the efforts to combat the threats to global food security resulting from the failure of the current food systems. This study set out to investigate and assess the contributions of global food system initiatives in tackling the food system challenges. In assessing the food system initiatives, we develop a three-step methodology for Food System Initiative (FSI) selection and then conduct a qualitative evaluation using relevant indicators based on food system failure narratives. Furthermore, the authors synthesize present literature in the context of the extent to which coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has compounded food system challenges and, together with the response-to-failure analysis, recreate a resilient transformational framework, which will be an invaluable tool to FSI during and after the COVID-19 era, and guarantee we build back better. The findings show that while considerable effort is being made in addressing food system failures, the current COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges and would require a paradigm shift not only in the implementation of conventional food system initiatives but also in the role of food system actors. The food system resilience framework presented provides useful pathway in expanding the understanding of the role of all key stakeholders and in identifying tipping points for building the desired resilience moving forward.
Highlights
In the last few decades, there has been a surge of interest from international organizations, governments, industries, and cooperate bodies to implement initiatives that ensure the United Nations Agenda on food security and nutrition are met.The support for this agenda began in the late 1990’s through the launch of a globally agreed mandate, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and in 2015, it was followed by the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG number two), which advocates for “zero hunger.” the global policy (MDGs) seemed to achieve its target, a broader understanding of the existing pathways to ensure food security was not accounted for
It was formed to implement the commitments of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns (10YFP), which was adopted at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in 2012 (Bortoletti and Lomax, 2019)
The key actors and partners within the program include Switzerland, Costa Rica, and World Wildlife Fund, in collaboration with Multistakeholder Advisory Committee that consists of 20 members from five different stakeholder clusters, namely, (1) Government agencies such as US Department of Agriculture; (2) Civil society organizations such as IFOAM-Organic International; (3) Research and technical institutions; (4) UN agencies and other international organizations, such as the FAO; and (5) private sector such as Nestle and Food Networks (Hatt et al, 2016)
Summary
In the last few decades, there has been a surge of interest from international organizations, governments, industries, and cooperate bodies to implement initiatives that ensure the United Nations Agenda on food security and nutrition are met.The support for this agenda began in the late 1990’s through the launch of a globally agreed mandate, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and in 2015, it was followed by the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG number two), which advocates for “zero hunger.” the global policy (MDGs) seemed to achieve its target, a broader understanding of the existing pathways to ensure food security was not accounted for. In the last few decades, there has been a surge of interest from international organizations, governments, industries, and cooperate bodies to implement initiatives that ensure the United Nations Agenda on food security and nutrition are met. The support for this agenda began in the late 1990’s through the launch of a globally agreed mandate, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and in 2015, it was followed by the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG number two), which advocates for “zero hunger.”. This led to a revision in priority indicators as well as additional indicators in championing SDG number two (Murray, 2015; Gil et al, 2019).
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