G20 Traction For Trilateral Cooperation To Achieve G20 Deccan High-level Principles On Food Security And Nutrition

The ongoing multiple challenges of food crisis, conflicts, and climate emergencies call for effective policies and programmatic actions to achieve sustainable agri-food systems transformation. This, in turn, requires deeper trilateral cooperation through the diffusion of technologies, information exchange, and resource mobilization supported by various institutions, including multilateral agencies. G20 Deccan High-Level Principles on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPs), endorsed by Leaders in September 2023, outline enabling actions and call for their prompt implementation to protect the food insecure. These principles include a range of actions such as humanitarian assistance, strengthening safety nets, building climate resilience, inclusivity in value chains, innovations, and investments where trilateral cooperation can play a critical role. Yet the G20 traction needed for implementing HLPs needs ramping up. Effective implementation of HLPs requires increased investments and faster diffusion of technologies towards transforming climate-resilient food systems and enabling agri-tech start-ups requiring policy and actions at all levels. Investment priorities also need to be aligned with sustainability objectives. Inclusivity necessitates integrating smallholder farmers, including women and youth, in agri-food value chains. The G20 Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) also needs strengthening. These call for deeper trilateral engagement to enhance food availability, accessibility, and affordability for faster, better, and sustained actions.