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Intersectoral Dialogues
Year in effect: 2021
The Intersectoral Dialogues arose from the need to create safe, qualified and diverse spaces to discuss the challenges and solutions for transforming food systems in Brazil. Building on the global mobilization surrounding the UN Food Systems Summit, the Comida do Amanhã Institute launched the Food Systems Dialogues in Brazil, a global initiative for intersectoral debates on food systems, and co-lead the organization of four dialogues. These meetings contributed to building the agenda taken to the debate at the first UN Food Systems Summit, in 2021.
Given the complexity and interconnected nature of food issues, which involve public health, food security, the environment, economics, and social justice, the program sought to bring together different sectors of society: public authorities, academia, civil society, international organizations, and the private sector.
Its main objective was to broaden the debate on public food policies based on multiple voices, recognizing that building systemic solutions requires active listening, intersectoral dialogue and articulation of knowledge. The Dialogues addressed the following topics:
- Access to healthy food is a right for all, in partnership with Fome Zero Institute and support from Ibirapitanga Institute;
- Justice and sustainability in food production systems and in their access to distribution chains, in partnership with WWF;
- The school meals policy as an instrument for food and nutrition security, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO);
- 2020: Covid-19 and food systems, curated by Professor José Graziano da Silva, and supported by the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS).
