Abstract_RoundtableFoodSystems_Yanti(T)Kusumanto_Oct15
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This document announces a roundtable discussion on exploring resilient and equitable food systems towards food security in the global south. The roundtable will discuss making food systems more resilient and equitable in response to the challenges of feeding a growing global population sustainably. Key issues that will be addressed include more sustainable agricultural practices that protect the environment, taking an integrated landscape approach to food and nutrition security, recognizing the role of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and governance structures that support resilient and equitable food systems. The roundtable aims to find solutions to ensure food security for vulnerable populations in the global south amidst issues of climate change, environmental degradation, and socioeconomic inequalities.
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- 1. International and Multidisciplinary Conference: Commemoration of 60th Anniversary of 1955 Bandung Asian-African Conference Roundtable Discussion: Exploring Resilient and Equitable Food Systems towards Food Security in the Global South 30 October 2015, Trisakti University, Jakarta-Indonesia Roundtable Members: Yanti Kusumanto, Convenor; Consultant Natural Resources, Sustainability & Governance; TYK research & action consulting Beria Leimona, Ecosystem Services Expert; World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, Expert on Gender and Natural Resource Management/Rural Development; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Marijn van der Laan, Expert on Marketing Research & Development and Modern Markets Supply Chain Optimization; Fresh Dynamics Indonesia Said Abdullah, Expert on Food Policy and Advocacy; People’s Coalition for Food Sovereignty Seema Mehra Parihar, GIS & Remote Sensing Expert, Kirori Mal College, University of New Delhi, India Suryo Wiyono, Agroecologist specialised in Pest Management; Bogor Agricultural University (BAU) Tristam Moeliono, Legal Scholar specialised in Spatial Planning; Bandung Parahyangan University Declined: Amy Ickowitz, Natural Resource Economist specialised in Forests & Nutrition, CIFOR Hermanu Triwidodo, Agroecologist and Farmer Research Facilitator, BAU (replaced by Suryo Wiyono) Mark Smulders, Agricultural Economist and Food Security Expert, FAO Abstract: Meeting global food and nutrition needs is one of the major challenges of our time. In 2014, about 795 million people were undernourished globally, including 780 million in the South. The FAO stated recently that with a global population estimated for 2050 to reach over 9 billion, global food production must increase by 70%, while food production in the Global South will need to double. However, food security is more than a matter of producing enough for meeting food demands. For vulnerable groups whose income is too low to cope with increasing food prices, food needs cannot be met simply by meeting food demands as determined by markets. Current food production can feed all, yet food
- 2. distribution according to wealth as governed by markets, undermines a socially and economically equal access to food. Evidence is growing that current food production strategies fall short in responding adequately. There is scope for production increases, yet efforts are complicated by global environmental changes (e.g. change in climate, biodiversity, and water availability). Dilemmatic is that these environmental changes are caused partly by food production practices themselves (e.g. excessive use of agrochemicals, deforestation leading to biodiversity loss). While global environmental changes compromise food and nutrition security for every country on the planet, securing populations of food and nutrition in the Global South is complicated by socioeconomic policy and institutional complexities typical for Southern regions. Global environmental changes, likely to increase food price volatility, will hit the poor, marginalised, and women the most. Climate change will affect also those whose livelihoods are closely connected to food production. Much of the food consumed in the South comes from small-scale, low-external inputs farms. Albeit this role, small producers receive little policy and institutional support, while most face declining yields and tied market competition due to global trade, modern agribusiness, and demands for fibres and energy derived from the land. Securing food and nutrition in the South is connected to the provision of food by a composite of interconnected and overlapping elements associated with farming land, forests, tree-based systems, aquaculture, and fisheries. In many countries, however, the management, governance of these elements are fragmented across different government departments and jurisdictions. The roundtable explores what make food systems in Southern regions resilient and equitable and discusses ways in which a food system approach could respond to the food security challenge. Discussion themes include: food system approach; alternatives to environmentally detrimental agriculture; food and nutrition security as ‘integrated landscape’; making visible biodiversity and ecosystem services; and governance for resilient and equitable food systems.