A call to adopt 13 principles for transforming food systems

Call to action 7 July 2021
More than 800 organizations and experts today launched a call to governments, private companies and civil society to adopt 13 key principles for transforming food systems.
Coffee trees in an agroforestry system in Nicaragua © E. Penot, CIRAD

The signatories to the IPES Food call are calling for agroecology and organic and regenerative agriculture to top the agenda at the UN Food Systems Summit. Here, coffee trees in an agroforestry system in Nicaragua © E. Penot, CIRAD

The signatories called upon leaders at the UN Food Systems Summit to adopt the 13 sustainability principles set out by the High-level Panel of Experts on food security and nutrition (HLPE) in a 2019 report on the issue.

They are calling for agroecology and organic and regenerative agriculture to top the agenda at the summit in New York this coming September.

The signatories of the call include CIRAD, WWF International, the US conservation group The Nature Conservancy, Oxfam and West Africa’s ECOWAS bloc, to list just a few.

The 13 principles are available on line, as is a list of the 230 organizations and 580 individuals who have signed the call.

 

The Agroecology Transformative Partnership Platform, launched in June at the 48th Plenary of the Committee on World Food Security, is based on these 13 principles. It aims to create the  conditions for the adoption of transformative agroecological approaches.
Elisabeth Claverie de Saint Martin
CIRAD CEO, signatory to the call

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