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Connecting the dots to transform food systems in South Asia: TAFSSA’s engagement strategy

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Title Connecting the dots to transform food systems in South Asia: TAFSSA’s engagement strategy
 
Creator Sarswat, Esha
Menon, Purnima
Khan, Nur-A-Mahajabin
Krupnik, Timothy
 
Subject access to information
agricultural development
agricultural policies
biodiversity
climate change
climate change adaptation
climate change mitigation
data
data analysis
diversification
food security
food systems
green revolution
healthy diets
livelihoods
malnutrition
poverty
poverty alleviation
research
research data
resilience
sustainable livelihoods
 
Description Home to one-quarter of humanity — one-fifth of whom are youth – South Asia has the world’s largest concentration of poverty and malnutrition. The Green Revolution positioned South Asia to produce one-quarter of the world's consumed food, but the region’s agrifood systems today face formidable poverty reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation, environmental health and biodiversity challenges. Significant hurdles remain to securing an adequate and affordable supply of diverse foods necessary for sustainable healthy diets (SHDs). Social, economic, and geographic inequalities create barriers from production to consumption, disproportionately affecting the poor. Unhealthy food consumption is rising, with many nutritious foods too costly for the poor.
Working across South Asia, Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA), is delivering a coordinated program of research and engagement across the food production-to-consumption continuum to improve equitable access to sustainable healthy diets, improve farmer livelihoods and resilience, and conserve land, air, and groundwater resources. One of the key objectives of TAFSSA is to develop inclusive learning platforms, public data systems and partnerships to improve the evidence base, increase data quality and accessibility, and develop integrated datasets for agrifood systems transformation.
To support inclusive learning and evidence-informed transformative actions across the production-consumption continuum, TAFSSA will unfold a multistakeholder engagement strategy. This strategy aims to strengthen the evidence base for action on agrifood systems in South Asia by bringing diverse stakeholders together and actively facilitating dialogue, evidence-building, learning and consensus building. These actions are intended to move knowledge into practice across the South Asia region.
 
Date 2023-01-17
2023-01-18T18:44:04Z
2023-01-18T18:44:04Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Sarswat, Esha; Menon, Purnima; Khan, Nur-A-Mahajabin; and Krupnik, Timothy. Connecting the dots to transform food systems in South Asia: TAFSSA’s engagement strategy.TAFSSA Practice Note 1. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127432
 
Language en
 
Relation https://www.cgiar.org/initiative/20-transforming-agrifood-systems-in-south-asia-tafssa/
TAFSSA Practice Note
 
Rights All rights reserved; no re-use allowed
Open Access
 
Format 4 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute