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PSM Position Paper: Urban and Peri-Urban Food Systems
The world’s food systems are at a critical point with growing calls for efforts to ensure food systems provide healthy diets while also reducing their impact on the climate and environment. Urban and peri-urban food systems offer unique solutions as they provide increased access to food in urban areas by developing shorter and more resilient value chains.
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PSM Issues for Policy Covergence Process
The changing pattern of population agglomerations across this rural–urban continuum is driving changes throughout agrifood systems (SOFI 2023), creating both challenges and opportunities to ensure everyone has access to affordable healthy diets. Urban and peri-urban food systems offer unique solutions as they provide increased access to food in urban areas by developing shorter and more resilient value chains. The future lies in policies that enable flexibility, foster entrepreneurial initiatives, and address food system inequities. Policy frameworks that empower cities to act decisively while ensuring that local initiatives are supported and scaled.
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Private Sector Mechanism Brochure
Private Sector Mechanism to the UN Committee on World Food Security brochure
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PSM – Membership and Sponsorship 2025
The mechanism is dependent on donations for continuing operations. We welcome funding from members of the Private Sector Mechanism on a voluntary basis.
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PSM Position Paper – Reducing Inequalities for FSN
The Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) acknowledges the pressing need to discuss and address inequalities and their drivers, within food systems at all levels, to accelerate progress on achieving food security and nutrition.
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OCP Case Study – Women empowerment for improved food legumes value chains in rural India
In an inclusive and integrated approach, OCP Foundation worked on improving the production and the quality of food legumes by smallholder farmers, and women played a major role in adapting the food legumes to local consumption habits for enhanced food and nutrition security of their households.
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Strengthening urban and peri – urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition in the context of urbanization and rural transformation
PSM thanks the HLPE-FSN for the VO draft Report on strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition in the context of urbanization and rural transformation and for the opportunity to share its views on the draft.
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PSM priority issues to be addressed during the CFS policy convergence process—Reducing inequalities for FSN
The Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) appreciates the opportunity to participate in the development of the Policy Recommendations on Reducing Inequalities for Food Security and Nutrition and acknowledges the pressing need to discuss and address inequalities, and their drivers, within food systems at all levels, to accelerate progress on achieving food security and nutrition.
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CFS workstream: Enhanced efforts to increase awareness, ownership, use and usefulness of CFS policy outcomes.
PSM has responded for the call for inputs in terms of desired outcomes and areas of work of this CFS workstream by highlighting the need for CFS products to be understandable and actionable (with clear language) for private sector actors to readily adopt and promote uptake.
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PSM – Membership and Sponsorship 2024
The Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) is an open platform for providing a permanent seat for for-profit enterprises, and their associations, right across the value chain at the UN Committee on Food Security. From farmers, to input providers, to cooperatives, processors, small-medium enterprises, and food companies, we welcome all those involved in addressing agriculture and food security.
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