Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems

hace 2 semanas

Panama Undp A tiempo completo

BackgroundMost commodity sectors in developing countries are afflicted by poor production practices that lead to increasing pressure on ecosystems and fail to improve the livelihoods of rural communities. Poor production practices lead to negative environmental impacts such as biodiversity loss, deforestation, carbon emissions, soil erosion, depletion of water resources and contamination from chemicals. In fact, the largest driver of deforestation is the production of agricultural commodities. On the social side, working conditions in commodity production are often not in line with basic labor rights.

Despite recent commodity booms, small producers are held in poverty, mostly due to low productivity and product quality.Despite the progress made through standards and supply-chain initiatives, weaknesses in the underlyingenabling environment limit change at a larger scale. An effective enabling environment consists ofelements such as clear public policies, a well-functioning legal framework, clarity regarding land-useplanning, effective enforcement mechanisms, accessible credit structures, and effective farmer extensionservices. As a result of the absence of these elements, work on commodity sustainability remains lesseffective than it could be, and costlier and more time-consuming than it should be. Improving theenabling environments will increase the chances of sector-wide change to sustainable productionpractices.UNDP has developed its Strategy for Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems (FACS) to focus its visionand enhance its support to transform FACS.

FACS are fundamental to the sustainable development of the170 countries UNDP supports. FACS are often the largest contributor to their economies; food andnutrition is fundamental for citizen health; and FACS have a key role to play in achieving the SDGs. Yet,FACS are in crisis and need to be radically transformed to become sustainable. UNDP, building on itsexperience, has for the first time consolidated its FACS support and vision into this Strategy.A FACS practice has been established within UNDP´s Nature, Climate and Energy team, which is tasked tosupport UNDP Country Offices with FACS related challenges in a way that is aligned with UNDP´s FACSstrategy.UNDP´s Green Commodities Programme (GCP) is one of UNDP´s global projects in support ofimplementing UNDP´s FACS strategy.

GCP's global targets, objectives and delivery strategies are based oninclusive and sustainable growth and development - combining governments and markets in agriculturethrough public private partnerships and democratic dialogue processes. GCP's focus on strengthening thelivelihoods of smallholder producers within commodity supply chains and reducing environmentalfootprints, particularly deforestation, through public private partnerships can be key for UNDP'sambitions to reduce poverty, reduce deforestation and engage the private sector in SDGs.Through the GCP project, FACS intends to improve the national economic, social and environmentalperformance of agricultural commodity sectors. GCP works within agricultural commodity production incountries of UNDP operation where the programme can have significant impact on rural livelihoods,mitigate climate change, and maintain the ecosystem services and resilience of landscapes and seascapes.In November 2021, UNDP launched the Effective Collaborative Action (ECA) guidebook, which gathers keyprinciples and practices for accelerating transformation of food systems.GCP supports the World Bank with the implementation of the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration(FOLUR) Impact Program (IP), financed under GEF-7. The Programme is designed to promote sustainableintegrated landscapes and efficient food value chains at scale.

The GCP coordinates the Good GrowthPartnership coalition, whose support focuses on the FOLUR Global Platform with the objective ofcontributing to transformational shifts in the use of environmentally sustainable practices and policies forpriority global value chains. Duties and Responsibilities Duties and ResponsibilitiesMain tasks: Support to the FACS projects, such as Food Systems Country Support Programme (FSCSP), GGP and FOLURprogrammes, in: - Support in meetings including scheduling, agenda drafting, delivery of key action points, minutes takingand report drafting;
- Support in maintaining all project management documents in a shared repository;
- Assist in other project management tasks and support project team members, as and when needed;
- Assist in preparing and reviewing presentations, briefing notes, reports and other supporting materials;
- Assist in coordination with FACS colleagues, country teams and partners, including scheduling calls andgathering information when needed;
- Assist on monitoring and reporting, collect and conduct data analysis as needed;
- Support the implementation of resource mobilization strategies for FACS as needed;
- Conduct research on partners, initiatives and donors as and when nee

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    Panama Undp A tiempo completo

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