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CPLP: Proposal to UN for coalition to promote sustainable food systems

CPLP: Proposal to UN for coalition to promote sustainable food systems

The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) has proposed to the United Nations the creation of an “international coalition” for the promotion of sustainable territorial food systems, CPLP’s director of cooperation told Lusa.

According to Manuel Lapão, the CPLP, which did not have a direct input in the UNations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), which began Thursday in New York and ends today, as part of the 76th UN General Assembly, proposed to the UN secretariat “the creation of an international coalition to promote sustainable territorial food systems.

The CPLP “wants this coalition to be of all member states and all organisations and development partners that wish to actively participate in strengthening territorial governance and the promotion of sustainable territorial food systems.

Manuel Lapão said that if this coalition is supported by the United Nations, “the CPLP intends to participate in its construction, in a broad partnership of stakeholders and continue to share its experience with other territories and countries”.

The proposal presented has to do with the fact that CPLP understands that the coalition should be politically led and supported by governments, which are responsible for the formulation and implementation of public policies to transform food systems within the framework of the progressive realisation of the human right to adequate food.

Although the organisation did not take part in the summit, several member states, such as Portugal, Angola, Brazil, East Timor, Mozambique and Equatorial Guinea did participate.

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In preparation for the UNFSS, the CPLP held the III meeting of the CPLP Food and Nutrition Security Council (CONSAN-CPLP) and approved its recommendations at the XIII Conference of Heads of State and Government of the CPLP, held in Luanda on 17 July 2021.

Thus, as a way of giving greater visibility to the Community’s action in a key sector for sustainable development in member states and, with a view to strengthening the participation of the CPLP in UNFSS and the potential to expand the range of partnerships of the Organization, “it was considered relevant that the CPLP member states that participate in UNFSS, in their respective areas of national intervention, could also disclose information on the progress achieved in the area of community consultation on the subject”.

Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor are the nine member states of the CPLP, which this year celebrated its 25th anniversary.

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