
| | | 7 April 2015 | Discussion 112 |
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| Towards the Development of the Programme on Sustainable Food Systems (SFSP) | until 17 April 2015 | 
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| Dear Colleagues, The online consultation Towards the Development of the Programme on Sustainable Food Systems has attracted many new comments over the last few days and we are happy to share them with you below. FAO and UNEP invite you to share your opinions and inputs on the programme on sustainable food systems they are jointly developing. The two Agencies also invite you to take part in a stocktaking exercise of initiatives related to sustainable food systems and are collecting expressions of interest of entities to participate in the programme and become member of its Committee. Please see the summaries of the comments below. The complete background, the draft concept note and all comments received so far are available on our discussion page. We look forward to keep receiving your comments. Your FSN Forum Team |
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| Bruno Kestemont, Head Territory Statistics, Belgium
| Bruno submits his feedback on the draft. He suggests a clearer mention of the qualitative aspects of the available food. [...] Read Bruno's contribution |

| Roberto Capone, CIHEAM-Bari, Italy
| Roberto provides feedback on the draft, information for the stocktaking exercise and expresses the interest of CIHEAM-Bari to take part in the programme. CIHEAM-Bari runs a project with the goal to create guidelines based on criteria/themes for each pillar of sustainability. [...] Read Roberto's contribution |

| Bibhu Santosh Behera, Ouat Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
| Bibhu gives an overview on the sustainable development of Indian agriculture. [...] Read Bibhu's contribution |

| Hellmut von Koerber, fleXinfo, Switzerland
| Hellmut shares information on the fleXinfo initiative as part of the stocktaking exercise. FleXinfo provides data integration services in the area of organic agriculture and food systems. [...] Read Hellmut's contribution |

| Stephen Ngenchi, Community Partners for sustainable Development, Cameroon
| Stephen submits his feedback on both the draft and the stocktaking and expresses his interest in taking part in the process. In his comments he mentions inter alia that the concept note does not spell out the role that civil society organisations would play in order to enhance and promote sustainable food systems. [...] Read Stephen's contribution |

| Gisèle Yasmeen, University of British Columbia, Canada
| Gisèle is very satisfied with the proposed draft and shares some suggestions such as the inclusion of “present” generations. [...] Read Gisèle's contribution |

| E.V.S. Prakasa Rao, Independent Researcher, India
| E.V.S. appreciates the importance of crop diversification such as incorporating aromatic plants in traditional cropping for building sustainable agricultural systems. [...] Read E.V.S.' contribution |

| Subhash Mehta, Devarao Shivaram Trust, India
| Subhash sends us a paper by Prof Amar Nayak on the asymmetries present in organizations, institutions and policies that affect long term sustainability of rural producer communities in India. [...] Read Subhash's contribution Subhash also links to a series of publications focusing on agro ecological education systems. [...] Read Subhash's contribution |

| Andrew Jones, University of Michigan, United States of America
| Andrew shares information on the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Systems Initiative (SFSI). [...] Read Andrew's contribution |
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