ACTION TRACK 5 : RESILIENCE

Background

Action Track 5 will propose solutions to ensure that food systems - which are affected by conflict, and environmental, health and economic shocks and stresses- can maintain functionality, recover from adverse effects, and improve to a better-off state. These actions include a focus on “productive disruption”– such as biodiversity loss and climate change. Furthermore, it is important to note that the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic requires additional solutions to build greater resilience within the current food system from production to consumption.

The ambition behind Action Track 5 is to ensure that food systems are regenerative and circular and thus more resilient to future shocks. That all individuals and institutions engaged in the functioning and governance of food systems are empowered to prepare for, withstand, and recover from instability, and participate in a food system that, despite shocks and stressors, delivers food and nutrition security and equitable livelihoods for all whist ensuring the healthy soil and water ecosystems for continued food system resilience.

The resilience of food systems needs to be strengthened in such a way that the economic, social and environmental foundations to produce sufficient nutritious food and maintain healthy ecosystems for current and future generations are not compromised. It demands a comprehensive approach that integrates responses to climate, biodiversity loss, conflict, pandemics, economic crises, food insecurity, malnutrition and considering poverty, inequalities and poor land use and distribution as structural root causes of increased hunger.