Strengthening transformative agricultural policy – fostering sustainable agricultural systems
Global Programme on Sustainable Agricultural Systems and Policies
Context
One of the priority development goals of the international community’s 2030 Agenda is to end global hunger. Current agricultural and food systems are not able to guarantee adequate healthy nutrition for everyone at all times and within planetary boundaries. Not just climate change, population growth and urbanisation, but also growing social inequality and conflicts are increasingly putting agricultural and food systems under pressure to adapt.
Objective
Transformation processes that foster sustainable agricultural systems are strengthened in India, Zambia, Kenya, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Madagascar, Burkina Faso and Mali, as well as at regional and global level.
Approach
The programme supports cooperating countries in transforming their agricultural systems. It draws on local impacts and partnerships and enhances these by providing national policy advice. At global level, the countries’ contributions are linked through regional exchange formats to transnational exchange, accompanied by advisory input from global knowledge carriers.
The global programme works in five fields of activity:
- Promoting reform approaches through transformative agricultural policy. These approaches need to be cross-cutting and as such connect agricultural policy with other areas such as food and nutrition security, climate action and biodiversity conservation.
- Scaling successful practices to provide support in consolidating and institutionalising tried-and-tested approaches and innovations.
- Including input from civil society by involving non-state actors, above all women and young people, in the reform agendas.
- Harmonising financial contributions with the aim of transforming the national funding landscapes and opening up access to additional funding and contributions to support the reform agendas.
- Linking national and global agendas to strengthen national reform processes and enrich the debate on the transformation of agricultural and food systems.
Last update: August 2023