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WORKSHOP REPORT: Food Value Chain Consultations - Consultative workshop on sustainable food value chain focusing on Food-related Policies and Policy Instruments

  • Published on October 13, 2021

Workshop objectives:

  • Introduce the value-chain approach, as developed by the UNEA requested Task Group on Catalysing science-based policy action on Sustainable Consumption and Production.

  • Share the key findings of the food sector analysis.

  • Improve the understanding of current policies and policy instruments addressing sustainability
    along the food value chain to:

Identify best practices and opportunities for their scale-up and replication.

Identify gaps and challenges to be addressed.

Identify actions needed by other stakeholders along the food value chain to support decision makers in the promotion of policies that aim at reducing negative environmental impact while improving the socio-economic contributions of the food sector.

Present messages from actors at all stages of the food value chain, collected as inputs to previous workshops of this consultation series.

 

MAIN MESSAGES

The application of the ‘Value-Chain Approach’ to analyse the food sector showed that the middle stages of the food value chain -- controlled by food companies across processing and packaging, retail and food services -- are structurally powerful and have a disproportionate influence across both primary production and final consumption. Actors at these stages have a huge impact on the activities at either end in determining both what food farmers sell and what food consumers buy.

Food systems connect bothsocialandenvironmentalsustainability.UNFoodSystemsSummitsis bringing the society together to talk about food systems and gives an opportunity to develop concrete actions aiming at reducing emissions from food systems. For opportunities to engage please visit the UN Food Systems Summit website.

Theanalysisofthepoliciesandpolicyinstrumentsreportedunder12.1.1haveallowedtoconclude that there is a concentration of policy measures at the two ends of the food value chain. Nearly 60% of the measures proposed at either input/production phase or consumption phase. This highlights a gap in measures at the middle stages of the value chain, the stages that shape how we produce and how and what we consume.

 

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