Ensuring security and safety of meals for bettering the diet standing shouldn’t be a job of a single physique. Coordination of the work of a number of actors is required for the ecosystem, say stakeholders.
Both policymaking our bodies and implementing authorities have to work collaboratively to uplift the folks’s diet standing, they famous at a roundtable held within the capital on Saturday.
The occasion, titled “Creating diet very important metropolis: Role of multisectoral platforms”, was collectively organised by Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA), a Swiss-based non-profit worldwide growth organisation, and the nation’s main enterprise newspaper The Business Standard.
Md Farhad Zamil, nation director of SFSA Bangladesh, mentioned higher coordination between the town company authorities and meals security authorities can carry a couple of main change in making certain meals security.
Dr Hasan Shahriar Kabir, director basic of Bangladesh National Nutrition Council, mentioned there ought to be dietary plans in city slums to deal with the dietary standing in city areas.
“We have already got some programmes that we have to expedite,” he acknowledged, including that diet shouldn’t be about meals; truly, it’s a full bundle of life.
Abdul Kayoum Sarkar, chairman of Bangladesh Food Safety Authority, in his feedback mentioned there are round 18 organisations which have been engaged on protected and nutritious meals.
“But now we have now taken initiatives to carry all of the organisations on a single platform and improve coordination amongst them,” he mentioned.
Talking about metropolis dwellers’ meals susceptible state of affairs, Abdul Kayoum Sarkar mentioned “Generally, metropolis folks play a job of shoppers, not producers. So, if meals will get contaminated within the provide chain, it’s fairly powerful to make it protected once more on the shopper finish.”
Recommending making the meals provide chain shorter and less complicated, he mentioned, “In European international locations, meals and agricultural merchandise instantly come to markets or retailers from producers. But, right here in Bangladesh, now we have multi-layers within the provide chain, which chain must be shortened.”
The roundtable is a part of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s “Nutrition in City Ecosystems” mission, which was initiated in Bangladesh in August 2021.
Helen Prytherch, head of Health System Unit of Swiss TPH, made a presentation briefing the mission.
Presenting a keynote on the roundtable, Hamidul Haque Khan, chief govt officer of HK Consulting, mentioned the diploma of malnutrition amongst city dwellers is extra extreme than of their rural counterparts.
“If you reside in a metropolis, you flip proper or left in shops, be it in an excellent store or a small vendor store. You find yourself with what you discover on the cabinets,” he mentioned.
“We, all inhabitants of cities, are both helpless or susceptible.”
Talking in regards to the function of multi-sectoral platforms in making a diet very important metropolis, Hamidul Haque Khan mentioned all stakeholders in society have their very own strengths and weaknesses.
“We should faucet these strengths and create collaboration amongst all of the stakeholders,” he added.
Authorities such because the Ministry of Food, Directorate of Food, Ministry of Social Welfare, Ministry of Women and Children Affairs and Ministry of Commerce are key stakeholders liable for making wholesome diets inexpensive.
Recommending the best way out for diet very important cities, he mentioned collaboration amongst authorities ministries and companies is a should for growing a coverage framework for an city meals system.
Speaking as a panellist, Khondakar Golam Moazzem, analysis director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue, mentioned since Bangladesh is graduating to a growing nation, it additionally must have a transition by way of meals consumption from the meals safety and security viewpoint.
Regarding stakeholders’ coordination, he steered that the meals and agriculture ministries additionally coordinate with native and worldwide non-governmental organisations.
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is engaged on the Dhaka meals system mission to develop the capital’s meals agenda 2041 by mapping the town’s meals system and challenges.
Xavier Bouan, senior technical adviser (Food System) at FAOBD, mentioned it doesn’t belong to at least one ministry or organisation, however moderately a number of stakeholders are engaged within the chain.
Md Abdul Wadud, govt director on the Bangladesh Institute of Research and Training on Applied Nutrition of the Ministry of Agriculture, mentioned that regardless of self-sufficiency in all types of meals besides milk, favourability is a matter for diet.
“The authorities, nonetheless, is attempting to cowl this by its security web programme, which can be not sufficient to cowl all of the folks,” he mentioned.
Md Shahid Uddin Akbar, chief govt director of Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development, mentioned there are complexities within the ecosystem behind making certain a diet food plan.
“We want to alter the ecosystem with the behaviour and adoption of a wholesome way of life,” he additionally mentioned.
Among others, SB Naseem, managing director of Winall Hitcech Seed BD Ltd; Dr Khaleda Islam, director of the Institute of Nutrition and Food Science on the University of Dhaka and Md Eyamin, workers correspondent of The Business Standard, spoke on the programme.
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