EVENT: Pre-Summit affiliated session “Promoting actionable multi-stakeholder collaboration for inclusive and equitable food systems governance at all levels”

Key messages

1. We all know why we need to change food systems, but we need more action on the how. The Food Systems Summit offers a unique opportunity for governments and other food systems actors to reflect and agree on how food systems governance and policies should be upgraded to achieve sustainable food systems.

2. By applying a ‘sustainable food systems approach’ to governance, policies and interventions, multiple outcomes can be achieved across environment, food security and nutrition, and better livelihoods. We need to build on participatory mechanisms to create enabling environments and synergies for People, Planet and Prosperity.

3. Rethinking our food systems to ensure they are sustainable must take into account the need to generate safe and trusted spaces to drive multisectoral and multidisciplinary mechanisms that ensure all perspectives, needs and demands are represented. It is important to ensure that food systems policies and investment are not designed and defined behind closed doors.

4. The Food Systems Summit is an important milestone. But the real job starts afterwards with implementation. The co-organizers of this session are collaborating to put in place a suite of concrete post-summit operational support facilities for Member States with a focus on inclusive multi-stakeholder collaboration, building on the Summit’s Member State Dialogues/Pathways.

Resources cited in the session

• Article preview on research initiative 'National and Subnational Food Systems Multi-Stakeholder Mechanisms: an assessment of experiences'.

• Overview of the work conducted by the Municipal Food Security Committees in Bolivia

• Urban Agenda for Food Security (proposal)

• Ireland new Agri-food Strategy 2030

• Making better policies for food systems.

• Good practices for deliberative processes for public decision making.

Programme

Moderator

• Martina Otto, Head, Cities Unit, UNEP

Speakers

• Cristina Eghenter, Global Governance Policy Coordinator, WWF, Co-Lead OPN SFSP     
• María Teresa Nogales, Executive Director of Fundación Alternativas
• Andrew Bovarnick, Global Head, Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems
• Prof. Pamela Mbabazi, Chairperson of the National Planning Committee, Uganda
• Lee Ann Jackson, Head of the Agro-Food Trade and Markets Division, OECD
• Caterina Ruggeri, Senior Advisor at SYSTEMIQ, UNFSS Governance Action Area
• Alwin Kopse, Head International Affairs & Food Security, FOAG (Switzerland), Co-Lead OPN SFSP
• Tom Arnold, Ireland’s Special Envoy on Food Systems

Duration: 50 minutes

Why should you view this session recording?  

1. To learn from good practices and innovative models of multi-stakeholder collaboration for sustainable food systems transformation. 
2. To learn about what set of principles are critical for successful, inclusive and equitable food systems governance. 
3. To understand some of the solution clusters froming in the Summit's Innovation Lever and the Governance and Planning Action Area for the implementation of the Summit's outcomes.