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The United Nations Secretary General has called for the first ever UN Food Systems Summit to be held in September 2021

Highlights

• It was called to strategize the actions for positive change in Agri-food systems in the World to realize the vision of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
  
• The Summit will focus on levers and pathways to shape food systems nationally and globally to accelerate progress in the SDGs.
  
• The Summit 2021 is planned to be essentially participatory and consultative and needs the game changing ideas from the experiences  through the National, Sub-national (State)  and independent consultation for the five Action Tracks related to safe and nutritious food, sustainable consumption patterns, nature-positive production, advance equitable livelihoods, and resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stress.

India & Summit

• India with close to 18% humanity on the Globe owes paramount stake in this Food System Summit.
  
• India has volunteered, but not limited to, to the Action Track 4: Advance Equitable Livelihoods for the UN Food System Summit 2021. 
  
• The prime function assigned to this group is to conduct National Dialogues with all the stakeholders of agri-food systems for exploring national pathways towards creating sustainable and equitable food systems in India and suitably contribute to transformation in global food systems to meet the needs of present and future.

National Level Dialogue on Agri-Food Systems

• The first National Level Dialogue on Agri-Food Systems-Advancing Equitable Livelihoods has been conducted on 12 April, 2021.
• The National Dialogue was facilitated by the Inter departmental Group constituted by Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare and the representatives from UN Agencies in Delhi. 
  

Source: PIB