Committee on World Food Security Policy recommendations SOCIAL PROTECTION with a core focus on: NO ZERO PEACE, JUSTICE PARTNERSHIPS FOR FOOD SECURITY POVERTY HUNGER AND STRONG FOR THE GOALS INSTITUTIONS & NUTRITION Contributes to SDG 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 13 The Committee on World Food Security (CFS), 39th Session, 2012, endorsed the following recommendations on Social Protection for Food Security & Nutrition1. The Committee: Urged Member States to participation, and are sensitive to countries in protracted crises, design and put in place, or country differences in terms of including linkages between A strengthen, comprehensive, policy, institutions and financial short-term social transfers and nationally owned, context- capacity; longer term social protection sensitive social protection programmes, taking into systems for food security ĵ appropriate national account the role of international and nutrition, considering: assessments, including food cooperation in reinforcing security and nutrition and gender national actions to implement ĵ inter-ministerial and cross- assessments, to ensure the sustainable social protection sectoral coordination, including inclusion of food and nutrition programmes and systems; the agriculture sector, to ensure insecurity-sensitive targeting, that social protection is integrated effective registration methods, ĵ the various components with broader food security and gender-sensitive programming, of effective social protection, nutrition programming; institutional arrangements, delivery including non-contributory social mechanisms, robust monitoring, transfers or safety nets, insurance ĵ the progressive development accountability and evaluation; mechanisms, and access to social of comprehensive country-led services, including recognition social protection portfolios and ĵ the particular challenges and strengthening of informal/ action plans that ensure active, faced by least developed traditional social protection inclusive, meaningful stakeholder countries, fragile states and mechanisms. Ì 1 Excerpt from the CFS 39 Final Report SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR FOOD SECURITY & NUTRITION ©FAO/Believe Nyakudjara Called upon Member States, agricultural assets, home-grown Urged Member States, international organizations school feeding that purchases international organizations and and other stakeholders to food from local smallholder other stakeholders to improve B ensure that social protection farmers, in-kind transfers (food, C the design and use of social systems embrace a "twin-track" seeds), vouchers and cash protection interventions to strategy to maximize impact transfers, agricultural livelihood address vulnerability to chronic on resilience and food security packages and extension services; and acute food insecurity, and nutrition, through: considering: ĵ establishment of strong ĵ provision of essential linkages amongst sectors such as ĵ the importance of providing assistance in the short-term education, health and agriculture predictable and reliable access to while simultaneously protecting to ensure decent employment social protection to all those in or building productive assets and social welfare in rural and need at any time of the year, and and infrastructure that support urban areas, including enhancing at particularly vulnerable stages livelihoods and human people’ access, especially women, of life; development in the long-term; to markets and financial services required for effective social ĵ that chronically vulnerable ĵ fostering integrated protection; individuals, unable to participate programmes which directly in the workforce, might support agricultural livelihoods ĵ ensuring the provision need permanent assistance, and productivity for the poor, of technical, financial and recognizing that not everyone particularly smallholder farmers capacity building support, can graduate out of poverty and and small-scale food producers, and also conducting and food insecurity; including through production sharing of research results on input support, weather, crop social protection, including ĵ that under a life-cycle and livestock insurance, farmer through enhanced South-South approach to nutrition, priority organizations and co-operatives cooperation. should be given to social for market access, decent jobs protection that addresses the and public works that create critical “first 1,000 days” from pregnancy to 2 years old, 2 ©FAO/ Amos Gumulira ©FAO/Alessandra Benedetti ©FAO/Adek Berry including policies that promote Reminded Member States that Social protection can be a and support breastfeeding, social protection programmes catalyst for the fulfilment of their ensuring access to social for food security and nutrition relevant international rights; services particularly health care, D should be guided by human ensuring adequate knowledge rights norms and standards ĵ the grounding of social of all relevant aspects of child and should be complemented protection in national care, and access to affordable as appropriate by policies, institutional frameworks and and acceptable nutritious guidelines, including legislation, where appropriate, food products through the legislation as appropriate, establishing targets, benchmarks, marketplace where possible, to support the Progressive indicators and institutional appropriate and sustainable; Realization of the Right responsibilities; to Adequate Food in the ĵ flexible mechanisms to Context of National Food ĵ the adoption of integrated monitor and adjust design Security, and social security, and mutually-supportive social features and modalities as as well as gender equality protection and food security and appropriate; and empowerment through nutrition strategies and policies, interalia: based on human rights standards ĵ that social protection systems and principles, including non- should be designed in such ĵ the consideration of discrimination and equality a way that they can respond provisions recommended by the (including gender), meaningful quickly to shocks such as International Labour Conference participation, transparency and droughts, floods and food price on the Social Protection Floors. accountability. spikes. Suggested that the CFS Bureau, in consultation with the Advisory Group and with the support of the Secretariat consider, given the already full agenda and limited resources, support for social protection for food security and nutrition, through inter-alia: o facilitation and convening of protection floors, in consultation with Monitoring) further clarifying lesson-sharing events on social Rome-based Agencies and relevant the support CFS could offer to protection for food security and organizations and entities, such as the stakeholders in the monitoring, nutrition, including complementing High-Level Task Force on Food Security reporting and evaluation of social existing global and regional platforms; (HLTF), the International Labour protection programmes for food Organization (ILO), the World Bank; security and nutrition, taking into o further exploration of a way account the roles of other relevant forward on integrating food security o the CFS Open-ended Working stakeholders and existing monitoring THE COMMITTEE and nutrition issues in social Group on Monitoring (OEWG- mechanisms. 3 FIND OUT MORE Social protection for food security by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security & Nutrition CFS is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together in a coordinated way to ensure food security and nutrition for all. Ĉ fao.org/cfs [email protected] ©FAO/ Simon Mainaè ©FAO/ The policy recommendations are part of the CFS Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition (GSF) Cover photo credits: ©FAO/Simon Maina.