The preliminary ideas for transforming the food system, which will, ahem, feed into the UN Food Summit, are out.
📣 Preliminary ideas for transforming our #FoodSystems have arrived!
Read the initial propositions for the 5 Action Tracks below:
AT1 https://t.co/Hrjym9b06M
AT2 https://t.co/7zeLlQ4pcw
AT3 https://t.co/PB3JLMwuMe
AT4 https://t.co/1zlYjZ2pO9
AT5 https://t.co/NYGritRnmE pic.twitter.com/hiUyyVEBsb— UN Food Systems Coordination Hub (@FoodSystems) April 1, 2021
There’s a quite a bit in there about diversity — of crops, production systems and diets — but let me single out the four solutions which explicitly mention genebanks:
- Action Track 3.10: Increasing agrobiodiversity for improved production and resilience.
- Action Track 3.14: Broadening the genetic base of nature-positive production systems.
- Action Track 5.10: Tools of accelerated breeding and trait mining underserved crops.
- Action Track 5.21: Long-term conservation of food diversity in gene banks and in the field, and sustained diversification of the food basket.
Not bad, eh?