Key objectives
The Regional SCP Roadmap will seek to promote sustainable food systems within Asia Pacific through creating not only the enabling conditions for more sustainable food systems through integrated regional, national and local-level action but also to promote, disseminate and implement methodologies and tools that will reduce food loss and waste, promote more resource efficient and healthier food consumption and reorient farming and production of food towards sustainability. A transition to more sustainable food systems will be achieved therefore through a mix of policy levers, methodologies, tools and standards as well as collaborative activities across the food system by public and private actors.
In October 2015, the 10 Year Framework of Programmes on SCP Sustainable Food Systems Programme (SFSP) was launched. The SFSP is a multi-stakeholder initiative comprising members belonging to five stakeholder clusters: government agencies; UN agencies and other international organizations; civil society organizations; technical and scientific institutions; and private sector. In Q4 2016 the SFSP will further define its activities based on its Work Areas and the focus themes identified below. When these activities have been further identified, the roadmap will be updated accordingly.
The focus themes of the 10YFP Sustainable Food Systems Programme are;
- Sustainable diets (simultaneously addressing sustainability, food security and nutrition by linking consumption and production with food and nutrient requirements);
- Sustainability along all food value chains;
- Reduction of food losses and waste;
- Local, national and regional multi-stakeholder platforms for the shift towards more sustainable food systems; and
- Resilient, inclusive, diverse food production systems to enhance their sustainability.
Links to SDGs and the 10YFP
The SFSP links to most of the 17 SDGs, including to targets such as:
2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 3.4, 8.4, 12.1, 12.3, 12.4, 15.1, 17.16
Roadmap activities
A. Regional and sub-regional policy dialogue, training and networking activities
- A1: Encourage, facilitate and support inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogue to help inform interconnected policy-making towards sustainable food systems, including through established sub-regional SCP fora, as well as stronger networking and dialogue through the 10YFP SFS Programme
- A2: Pilot the think.eat.save food loss and waste measurement and prevention methodologies in at least one country and communicate results in a regional policy dialogue
B. National technical assistance packages at the sectoral/thematic level
- B1: Enhance the development of skills and capacities to promote SCP in food systems among relevant stakeholders in the Asia Pacific region, including national experts and policy makers
- B2: Pilot the think.eat.save food loss and waste measurement and prevention methodologies in at least one country in Asia Pacific
C. Regional or national awareness raising campaigns
- C1: Raise awareness through better coupling the food and agriculture sector with science, media and education
- C2: Regional or national awareness raising campaigns
D. Implementation tools (methodologies, toolkits, guidelines and standards)
- D1: Promote the application and development of methodologies, information and tools for more sustainable food systems, including the reduction of food losses and waste.
- D2: Development of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) entitled “Food Systems and Natural Resources in Southeast and East Asia” in 2016
