F&BKP Office

During the online meetings, members of the CoP Markets, Value Chains & Nutritious foods refer to several documents and information, which will regularly be added to the resources list in this post. »

The scope of this Food security and COVID-19 CoP is “food value chains from farm to fork, including nutritious foods and reaching the most vulnerable”. In the first CoP call, three potential areas for collaboration were identified: implementation in the field; Policy/advocacy/governance; and Knowledge sharing. »

Following up on the first virtual round table a second meeting on the COVID-19 response was held to discuss the proposed four Communities of Practice that emerged as commonly identified focus areas in the first meeting. The goal of this meeting was to make these CoPs concrete, discuss how they are organized and what steps they can start taking. »

On April 15, a first virtual round table was convened by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department Inclusive Green Growth (MinFA-IGG) and the Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP) for bilaterally funded programmes to see what is possible to support local farmers, nutrition programmes and partners with existing means. »