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Recognizing the importance and urgency of leveraging the potential of science and innovation to overcome the intertwined social, economic and environmental challenges of agrifood systems in a globally equitable, inclusive and sustainable manner, FAO’s first-ever
Science and Innovation Strategy (the Strategy) was designed through an inclusive, transparent and consultative process.
The Strategy indicates that FAO will strengthen its contribution to science-policy interfaces (SPIs) at national, regional and global levels to support organized dialogue between scientists, policy-makers and other relevant stakeholders in support of inclusive
science-based policy making for greater policy coherence, shared ownership and collective action. The added value of FAO’s contribution is to focus at national and regional levels in addition to the global level, to address issues that are relevant to agrifood
systems taking into account as appropriate information and analyses produced by existing SPIs.
Integration of science and evidence into effective agrifood system decision-making processes remains a significant challenge. For example, and for a variety of reasons, policymakers may not inform scientists and other knowledge holders about their needs while
scientists and other knowledge holders may not actively engage in the policy-making process. Additionally, many obstacles may compromise this participation.
The aim of this consultation is to further identify and understand the barriers and opportunities for scientists and other knowledge holders (drawing their knowledge from other knowledge systems, including Indigenous Peoples, small-scale producers, etc.) to
contribute to informing policy for more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems.
The comments received during this online consultation will be compiled and analyzed by the FAO Chief Scientist Office. The results will inform work on the development of guidance for strengthening science-policy interfaces as well as science- and evidence-based
policy processes for agrifood systems, helping to ensure that effective policy decisions are made based upon sufficient, relevant and credible science and evidence.
Please visit the consultation webpage to read the full introduction and the guiding questions. The consultation page is available in
English,
Español,
Français,
Русский,
中文 and العربية.
Comments are welcome in any of these languages - please post them directly online upon
registration to the FSN Forum or, alternatively, to send them to
[log in to unmask].
This consultation is open until 15 January 2023.
Please feel free to share this invitation with your professional networks. We look forward to receiving your valuable input and to learning from your experiences!
Your FSN Forum Team
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