Creating Sustainable Means of Nutrition for the Vulnerable in West Africa - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs platform

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Creating Sustainable Means of Nutrition for the Vulnerable in West Africa

Description
SDGs & Targets
Deliverables & timeline
Resources mobilized

Description/achievement of initiative

Food for All - West Africa Bank is a food recovery initiative created by Chefs for Change Ghana Foundation to create sustainable means of nutrition for the mentally challenged, the elderly, street kids, and other vulnerable groups across West Africa. Our vision is to build food banks that recover and redistribute food to the vulnerable throughout West Africa.

Implementation methodologies

Food for All West Africa Bank will be headquartered in Ghana, with national food banks located across West Africa. These national food banks will work in partnership with charity homes, NGOs, pantries and community/municipal assemblies, to establish kitchens where recovered food distributed by the national bank will be cooked to feed the vulnerable in society.

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

The first West Africa Food for All Conference has been scheduled for March 2016. The conference will provide an opportunity for policy makers and other players in the food supply chain to explore timely topics and solutions towards finding lasting and sustainable solutions to the perennial challenges of food waste and hunger in Ghana and West Africa. It will highlight the need for integrated approaches from public-private partnerships with the goal of launching cross-sectoral alliances. Thematic areas to be addressed during the conference include:• Social protection and agriculture-2015 UN World Food Day theme• Ensuring sustainable food security in West Africa by reducing food waste and loss• Intra-regional solution towards creating sustainable means of nutrition for less privileged• Building West Africa’s first food recovery bank-solution to food wastage and losses• Looking at food recovery investment opportunities

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

Food for All - West Africa is governed by a panel of agencies and individuals drawn from stakeholders in the West Africa food supply chain, with oversight responsibility from respective Food and Drugs Authorities in member countries. In Ghana, the Food for All Ghana campaign runs in collaboration with the Ghana Food and Drugs authority, whose oversight responsibility is to ensure wholesome food is recovered and used to feed the vulnerable.

Partner(s)

* Food for All, West Africa * Food for All, Ghana * Food for All, Benin * Chefs for Change Ghana Foundation

Progress reports

Goal 2

2.1 - By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round

2.2 - By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons

2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality

2.5 - By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed

2.b - Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round

2.c - Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility

Goal 3

Goal 12

12.2 - By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

12.3 - By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses

12.5 - By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

12.7 - Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities