IFPRI SESSION ON MARKETS AND GLOBALIZATION AT THE FOOD SYSTEM DIALOGUE FOR INDIA 2022

Today, India is desperately in need of re-thinking production and food in its systems complexity to address the existing and new emerging challenges. The challenges arising from the climate crisis, production, consumption, and trade amongst other things are constantly evolving and there's a need to re-orient the way policies have been perceived and designed in the past.

The Food System Dialogue India 2022 (FSD 2022) was convened on 15 & 16 December 2022 by Bharat Krishak Samaj with the support of Socratus Foundation for Collective Wisdom in partnership with ten institutions, including IFPRI, to build a discourse towards a food systems approach. The goal was to lay down mechanisms such that over time it can effectively communicate to the policy makers and civil society organizations the idea of system thinking and its implications along the lines of recommendations of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) 2021.

IFPRI organized session on 'Markets and Globalization' at the Food Systems for India Dialogue.

The Dialogues, with ten themes of discussion headed by each partner, were designed to be interdisciplinary, cutting across sectors, and involving key contributors from a range of disciplines. The platform will provide an opportunity to change the narrative and build a discourse towards a food systems approach.  The format enabled the convergence of different thematic areas, bringing out the inter-dependencies and linkages. The dialogue also provided an exclusive opportunity for peer-to-peer exchange of information and experiences which would help create future collaboration and effective networking among the many institutions and actors involved in the food systems.

For more information, read IFPRI's report on the session on 'Markets and Globalization' here and learn more about the FSD 2022 here.