The 2030 Agenda requires coherent policies

The example of sustainable food systems

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) / @CDEunibe

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Select a policy option from the following range and see how it performs with regards to SDG 2.

1) Decrease public support to Swiss agriculture

by eg. reducing direct payments, tariffs, export subsidies (s. Schoggigesetzgebung etc)

2) Decrease agricultural support to Swiss agriculture and support to food processing industries

by the measures mentioned above and by reducing obligations of food processing industry to purchase domestic produce.

3) Decrease agricultural support to Swiss agriculture in certain product categories that are specifically relevant to developing countries

including processing industry, by focusing on specific product categories, by enlarging the current GSP-scheme (General system of preferences)

4) Provide reliable market incentives for sustainably produced, value added agricultural products from developing countries

eg by introducing respective public procurement schemes, by providing specific import quotas, by negotiating respective performance agreements with importers and processing industries, by introducing respective offers in bilateral trade agreements, by providing technical assistance to developing countries, etc.

5) Decrease agricultural support to Swiss agriculture in certain product categories

that are specifically relevant to developing countries, including processing industry, in combination with effektive market incentives to purchase sustainably produced, value added agricultural products from developing countries, by combining the measures mentioned above.

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1) Decrease public support to Swiss agriculture by eg. reducing direct payments, tariffs, export subsidies (s. Schoggigesetzgebung etc)

2) Decrease agricultural support to Swiss agriculture and support to food processing industries by the measures mentioned above and by reducing obligations of food processing industry to purchase domestic produce.

3) Decrease agricultural support to Swiss agriculture in certain product categories that are specifically relevant to developing countries including processing industry, by focusing on specific product categories, by enlarging the current GSP-scheme (General system of preferences)

4) Provide reliable market incentives for sustainably produced, value added agricultural products from developing countries eg by introducing respective public procurement schemes, by providing specific import quotas, by negotiating respective performance agreements with importers and processing industries, by introducing respective offers in bilateral trade agreements, by providing technical assistance to developing countries, etc.

5) Decrease agricultural support to Swiss agriculture in certain product categories that are specifically relevant to developing countries, including processing industry, in combination with effektive market incentives to purchase sustainably produced, value added agricultural products from developing countries, by combining the measures mentioned above.

Select a policy option from the following range and see how it performs with regards to SDG 2.

1) Increase the production of food and feed commodities for export in lowlands of Bolivia

through technology transfer, credit facilities, permission of deforestation, authorisation of food commdity export; investment in productive infrastructure; legal exemptions e.g. GMOs, environmental pollution, labelling obligations etc.

2) Financial and food transfer from state to vulnerable and poor people

through direct payments in social programms for children, pregnant women, elders

3) Sustainable intensification

through transition to non-GMO seeds, crop rotations, organic fertilization, integrated pest and weed management, based on enforcement of existing environmental norms and corresponding sanctions aiming at bringing vision of majority of people into the agricultural policies

4) Upscale agroecological production of small, indigenous and large scale producers

through expanding bottom-up access of small scale producers to land, credits, mechanization, biological weed and pest control, non-GMO seeds adapted to local conditions, diversification of land use through integrating agricultural and lifestock keeping activities, based on enforcement of existing environmental norms and labor rights; further economic incentives provided to small holders; bottom-up, democratically defined agroecological transition plans for large scale food and feed producers

5) Upscale agroecological production combined with both domestic market and export strategy

focused on value added, processed agricultural products measures: s. above; in addition, regarding domestic market: include incentives in public procurement schemes (eg. school feeding); support certification, processing and distribution; provide respective tax incentives etc; regarding external market: promote identification of niche markets; negotations with potential purchasers; negotiate innovative trade agreements etc.

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1) Increase the production of food and feed commodities for export in lowlands of Bolivia through technology transfer, credit facilities, permission of deforestation, authorisation of food commdity export; investment in productive infrastructure; legal exemptions e.g. GMOs, environmental pollution, labelling obligations etc.

2) Financial and food transfer from state to vulnerable and poor people through direct payments in social programms for children, pregnant women, elders

3) Sustainable intensification through transition to non-GMO seeds, crop rotations, organic fertilization, integrated pest and weed management, based on enforcement of existing environmental norms and corresponding sanctions aiming at bringing vision of majority of people into the agricultural policies

4) Upscale agroecological production of small, indigenous and large scale producers

5) Upscale agroecological production combined with both domestic market and export strategy

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Content:
Prof. Dr. Stephan Rist
Dr. Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi
Dr. Johanna Jacobi
Markus Giger
Dr. Theresa Tribaldos

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Bader Christoph @CDEdatablog

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