Small Farms, Small Food Businesses and Sustainable Food Security

21st March 2018
by secretary

Paepard

19 March – 19 April 2018. SALSA Online e-conference. (SALSA: Small Farms, Small Food Businesses and Sustainable Food Security).

Reference: Background document to the FAO email conference – 14Mar2018A.pdf
The first e-conference was to support and give input to the SALSA project

A second online conference was started on 19th of March:

Cooperation between small farmers;
Contributions of small farmers to the resilience of the food system;
Past strategies and policies for small farmers to overcome their main challenges;
Strategies and policies which would allow small farmers to address challenges in the future;
The way food supply chain businesses might contribute to small farmers;
How policies can affect small farms’ activities and decision making

Who is expected to participate?

The virtual discussion is intended to draw the attention of researchers, educators, students and a wide spectrum of food chain/food system actors and entrepreneurs, as well as policy makers and administrators at multiple levels, on the role of small farms within a larger context.
The e-conference is also open to all who wish to share their insights and discuss “The Role of Small Farms Within a Larger Context of Food Security”.
While the participation in the e-conference remains free and voluntary, all participants are encouraged to actively contribute with their experiences.

Background: The SALSA Project

The project “Small Farms, Small Food Businesses and Sustainable Food Security” (SALSA, www.salsa.uevora.pt/en/) aims to provide a better understanding of the current and potential contribution of small farms and food businesses to sustainable FSN.
Supported by the EU funded Horizon 2020 program
A coalition of 16 European and African partners are collaborating in assessing the role of small farms and small food businesses in delivering a sustainable and secure supply of affordable, nutritious and culturally adequate food.
The four-year SALSA project began in April 2016.

Related:

20 March 2018. The 2018 Global Food Policy Report is now availalbe. Thisreport looks at the impacts of greater global integration – including the movement of goods, investment, people, and knowledge – and at the potential impacts of current anti-globalization pressures. The report reviews the events of 2017, and asks how global integration – through trade, investment, migration, open data, developed country policies, and governance – can be harnessed to benefit our global food system. The 2018 report also presents data tables and visualizations for several key food policy indicators, including country-level data on hunger, agricultural spending and research investment, and projections for future agricultural production and consumption.

Drawing on recent research, IFPRI researchers and other distinguished food policy experts consider a range of timely topics:

How can the global food system deliver food security for all in the face of the radical changes taking place today?
What is the role of trade in improving food security, nutrition, and sustainability?
How can international investment best contribute to local food security and better food systems in developing countries?
Do voluntary and involuntary migration increase or decrease food security in source countries and host countries?
What opportunities does greater data availability open up for improving agriculture and food security?
How does reform of developed-country farm support policies affect global food security?
How can global governance structures better address problems of food security and nutrition?
What major trends and events affected food security and nutrition across the globe in 2017?

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Food policy in 2017-2018: Progress, uncertainty, and rising antiglobalism [Download]
Chapter 2 Food security: The global food system under radical change [Download]
Chapter 3 Trade: The free flow of goods and food security and nutrition [Download]
Chapter 4 Investment: International investment and local food security [Download]
Chapter 5 Migration: Tightening borders and threats to food security [Download]
Chapter 6 Knowledge and data: Achieving food and nutrition security through open access [Download]
Chapter 7 Developed country policies: Domestic farm policy reform and global food security [Download]
Chapter 8 Global institutions: Governance reform for food, nutrition, and agriculture [Download]
Chapter 9 Regional developments [Download]
Annex Food policy indicators: Tracking change [Download]

Source: PAEPARD FEED

Small Farms, Small Food Businesses and Sustainable Food Security

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