THE Ministry of Agriculture will be hosting a Food Systems Dialogue on Tuesday May 11, 2021, to inform the first-ever United Nations (UN) Food Systems Summit, which will take place in New York in September, 2021, the Agriculture Ministry has announced.
The dialogue will bring together participants from civil society, the private sector and from all facets of the government and non-governmental organisations, such as the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), for a lively and constructive discussion on how to make the food system across all regions in Guyana safer, stronger, and more equitable.

The primary topics that will be discussed are the global status of agri-food systems and implications for Guyana; developing pathways towards sustainable food systems and the perspective from the private sector, and participants will be expected to agree on a number of ways Guyana’s food system can be strengthened, a press release from the Ministry of Agriculture stated. The Ministry of Agriculture will afterwards submit the outcomes of the dialogue to the organisers of the UN Food Systems Summit. The information will be used to feed into the summit’s five-priority action tracks, which are: Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all; shift to sustainable consumption patterns; boost nature positive production; advance equitable livelihoods; and build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stress.