A big welcome to all of you around the globe taking part in the #WorldFoodDay Twitter chat: 60 minutes of exploring how food systems can work better, making food fair and healthy for all.
Feel free to introduce yourselves, so we know who’s taking part today
Future of Food Systems Twitter Chat
Devex, joined by Biovision Foundation, CGIAR, Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Global Alliance for the Future of Food, The Global FoodBanking Network, Heifer International, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Tanager, 1,000 Days, World Vision USA, and WWF, organized a Twitter chat – a conversation and explore how we can make food systems sustainable for all.
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How can I participate in this Twitter chat?
1️. Monitor the Twitter feed. We’ll post 7 questions - 1 question every 7 minutes (Q1, Q2, Q3, etc.).
2. Retweet the question with a comment - your answer starting with A1, A2, A3, etc., and the hashtag #WorldFoodDay.
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Q1: What is the biggest challenge for our existing food systems?
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A1: The biggest challenge is that they are inefficient + inequitable. We produce enough food to feed all 7 billion people, yet 811 million people go to bed hungry. Vulnerable communities struggle to access food bc of high prices, geographic isolation, food loss or conflict.
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Lack of access to markets for smallholder farmers is a key challenge in transforming the food system to be more equitable and benefit everyone along the value chain. When they can access markets they can reach more customers and build sustainable incomes. #WorldFoodDay #Market
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To me it’s clear, the Global #FoodSystems is gravely affected by poor agricultural practices, food safety, lack of equal access, food waste and nutrition.
We need to come together as equal partners in a systems and compliment the existing efforts by #Farmers
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The combination of COVID-19 and climate change threaten to make our goal of ending hunger out-of-reach by 2030! To fight hunger, instability, and climate change, we MUST invest in nutritious, equitable food systems 🥗 #WorldFoodDay #FoodSystems
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A1: We must tackle malnutrition in children & women in #LMICS. Mothers need access to healthy choices to support child and maternal health. This means improved supply & demand of nutritious foods & support of women & #SMEs like in #Eggciting: egghub.org
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Q2: Why is food insecurity on the rise and what can be done to tackle it?
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A2 📣Conflict, economic slowdowns and global warming exacerbate hunger worldwide. Increasing evidence shows that #agroecology can lead to more balanced diets, feed a growing population and contribute to #SDG2 💡
Check out our FAQ's👉agroecology-pool.org/faq/
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#WorldFoodDay #FoodSystems #DevexSeries 👇Q2: Why is #foodinsecurity on the rise and what can be done to tackle it?
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Post-harvest losses include lack of market access, financing, and the use of outdated technology to store the grains. Post-harvest loss management should be holistic and address the whole value chain and its actors. @IFDCnews #WorldFoodDay 2021
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Climate change and conflict have led to an increase in food insecurity. Technology can help! LWR's R2R project is using real-time Earth Observation (EO) data to inform and improve crop monitoring and early warning systems management. lwr.org/blog/2021/reli
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A2. #FoodSecurity can only be achieved if #NutritionSecurity is also addressed.
#FoodSystems that make #HealthyDiets more affordable and accessible to all, including vulnerable groups who are at risk of experiencing #malnutrition, are key to this.
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Q3: What impact is climate change having on food systems and how can this be mitigated?
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A3: Climate change is deeply affecting small-scale farmers' capacity to produce food and earn a decent income.
We must increase financing and investments to enable small-scale producers to adapt and build resilience.
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A3: As weather patterns change, farmers productivity is affected - #climatechange can result in less access to water resources, ruined growing seasons, and unstable energy access
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A new report by shows that climate change contributed 30% to the challenges farmers are facing in productivity. Tech innovations can reimagine farming and food production, and key to accelerating a transition to sustainable, profitable farming across Africa #WorldFoodDay
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A3: Climate change increases food security risks 📈
#RuralWomen need support to adopt adaptation and mitigation strategies + #GenderInAg innovations if we are to meet the 2°C target: gender.cgiar.org/news-events/bu -
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A3. Land degradation, accelerated by #ClimateChange, imperils global food security. To grow enough food for an estimated 9 billion people living on earth by 2050 requires land restoration & more sustainable farming practices. #LandRights offer a path to both. #WorldFoodDay [1/2]
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Q4: What role can community-led projects and smallholder farmers play in transforming our food systems? Share an example.
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A4: Transforming food systems relies on farmers like Richard Irureta, in Uruguay, adopting better methods to deal with cow manure. The system provides non-chemical fertilizer for his dairy farm and reduces pollution for all in the Santa Lucia watershed. wrld.bg/F7XT50Gs3I9
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A4: is a decentralized farmer-led network of 50,000 small growers in the Philippines who farm ecologically for subsistence and local market sale. This is transformative, community-led work: bit.ly/3j1sXe7
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A4: Locally-led solutions are essential to equitable #FoodSystems outcomes. Our partner, , is doing great work to equip smallholder farmers with tools & skills to increase productivity by 40+% and build systems that are more inclusive and profitable. #WorldFoodDay
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Q4: In Burkina Faso, Tanager is working with smallholder women farmers to adopt poultry farming to improve economic and dietary conditions, and to transform the poultry sector itself.
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A4. They can offer alternatives to practice conservative & eco-friendly agriculture.
E.g. With community partners in #Rwanda, we are leading an initiative to practice regenerative agriculture methods which rehabilitate biodiversity & reverses climate change effects.#WorldFoodDay
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Q5: How can we make adequate nutrition accessible, affordable, and sustainable, especially for mothers and children in lower- and middle-income countries?
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A5: In Peru, women are gatekeepers of family nutrition, and better serving them through #GenderInAg research and innovation can help increase food security 👪🍲
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A5: The first 1,000 days provide a window of opportunity for women & children to thrive. We must increase investments in women’s #nutrition & health during this window (e.g. – support #breastfeeding, edu on IYCF) so they can reach their full potential.
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We need legislation to protect young children from harmful marketing practices & unhealthy foods + improve availability of locally produced nutritious foods + increase access to essential nutrition services, including #Breastfeeding support. #WorldFoodDay
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Low-cost high-impact #nutrition interventions are critical to get the right nutrition to those in need. Exclusive #Breastfeeding, #FoodFortification and optimizing #SocialSafetyNetPrograms ensure women, girls and children have access to important micronutrients. #WorldFoodDay
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We need to #invest in women's #nutrition throughout the life cycle.
#poweringwomen #promisingfutures
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Q6: What can be done throughout the food chain to optimize production and significantly reduce food waste?
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Q6: In some contexts, food waste happens in the early stage of the food chain, ie, farm level. Investing in better infrastructure and support for smallholder farmers to improve ag practices, local processing, and storage is a must.
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A6. We look at orgs like & that are optimizing food production and removing waste in very different ways, urban and rural. They're just two of thousands of initiatives worldwide transforming #foodsystems bit.ly/3j1sXe7 #BeaconsofHope #WorldFoodDay
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A6: The best way to do this is through a pincer approach:
1️⃣ Stop subsidising overproduction
2️⃣ Harnessing tech to increase production efficiency and reduce waste
3️⃣ Regulate e.g. banning food disposal in land fills #WorldFoodDay
A6. Food producers & suppliers should partner with #FoodBanks to help improve food access while reducing food loss & waste.
Start by creating a plan for inevitable surplus food to be donated to a local food bank.
Here's how to get started: bit.ly/CGF_FoodBankPa
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A6. #ATNIGlobalIndex 2021 results show that companies can reduce #FLW by improving and standardizing labeling practices, particularly in relation to labels for food products' expiry dates.
Read more: accesstonutrition.org/index/global-i
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Q7: What is your single most important call to action on building more sustainable food systems?
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We need to reduce intensive livestock farming methods, reduce food waste, increase organic & agroecological agriculture & increase local & urban food production schemes.
Tackle heading on food poverty, with support that brings the right to healthy food to each. #WorldFoodDay
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A.7. Promote local market systems - reduce supply chain management issues, localize food storage & processing, address market anomalies, build a transparent & equitable distribution system
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A7 1/2: Young Africans have the power to transform Africa’s agricultural sector, taking up technology to address the problems farmers are facing at the farm level, from drone technology to apps that enable farmers have access to capital. #WorldFoodDay
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A7: Empowerment of women is the single largest call to action for food security for children. Women in rural areas have significant agricultural tasks in addition to household labor & childbearing. #WorldFoodDay #FoodSystems (1/2)
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We need to collaborate + bridge public and private sector divides, it's the best way to improve #foodsystems, climate resiliency, smallholder farmers’ lives + #foodsecurity.
Interested in working w/ #WE4F? There’s #CallsforInnovations open right now!
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We have 5 mins left - any final thoughts on how we can make food fair and healthy for all? If you need to see all 7 questions again, refresh the feed now!
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A big thank you to our panelists from our #FoodSystems #DevexSERIES and to all of you ahead of #WorldFoodDay!
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