{"id":169699,"date":"2020-09-29T22:55:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=169699"},"modified":"2020-09-29T22:55:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:55:43","slug":"food-system-transformation-cannot-be-achieved-without-pro-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2020\/09\/food-system-transformation-cannot-be-achieved-without-pro-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Food system transformation cannot be achieved without pro-policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-169699-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SAPM-on-Poverty-Alleviation-and-Social-Safety-Dr.-Sania-Nishtar-addressess-this-high-level-Event-Virtually-today.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SAPM-on-Poverty-Alleviation-and-Social-Safety-Dr.-Sania-Nishtar-addressess-this-high-level-Event-Virtually-today.mp4\">https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SAPM-on-Poverty-Alleviation-and-Social-Safety-Dr.-Sania-Nishtar-addressess-this-high-level-Event-Virtually-today.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Sep 29 (APP):Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Sania Nishtar Tuesday said that food system transformation cannot be achieved without \u2018pro-poor\u2019 policies that support economic growth as well as social protection policies.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sania Nishtar was speaking at an online launch event for the Global Panel\u2019s new Foresight 2.0 report: \u2018Future Food Systems: For people, our planet, and prosperity\u2019, co-hosted by the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Being a member of the Global Panel\u2019s High-Level Stakeholder Group who had contributed to Global Panel\u2019s report, Dr. Nishtar provided her perspectives of the report alongside Dr. Francesco Branca, Director of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO and Diane Holdorf, Food Director World Business Council for Sustainable Development.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nishtar highlighted Ehsaas nutrition approach at the event hosted by Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition and FAO.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the high-level panel, Dr. Nishtar stated, \u201cPolicy makers must address planetary and dietary challenges simultaneously, since they are so fundamentally interlinked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further adding, she said,\u201cThe report makes concrete recommendations on the practical steps which need to be taken in a process of transition, leading to a transformed future food system. And, food system transformation cannot be achieved without \u2018pro-poor\u2019 policies that support economic growth as well as social protection policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This event was chaired by Dr. Anna Lartey, Director for Nutrition at the FAO. She highlighted key findings from the report and began the process of engaging decision makers from government, the private sector, the donor community, and research with its recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Pakistan has institutionalized the inter-ministerial \u2018Pakistan National Nutrition Coordination Council\u2019 (PNNCC), chaired by the Prime Minister Imran Khan and there are 8 Cabinet Ministers in the Council, said a news release.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time in the history of Pakistan that this inter-ministerial set up has been created under the overarching Ehsaas framework to steer nutrition specific agenda in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Another substantive initiative is the recent launch of Ehsaas Nashonuma that is a conditional cash transfer program pegged on addressing stunting and nutrition outcomes among children under two years of age, and pregnant and lactating mothers.<\/p>\n<p>In the first phase, 35 Ehsaas Nashonuma Centers have been opened across nine districts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Sep 29 (APP):Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Sania Nishtar Tuesday said that food system transformation cannot be achieved without \u2018pro-poor\u2019 policies that support economic growth as well as social protection policies. 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