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Local Food Production and Marketing - Reinforcing the climate resilience of short food supply chains for zero hunger and improved nutrition










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    Pathways to climate-resilient net zero supply chains
    A guide for global agrifood businesses
    2025
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    This guide presents a framework designed to help agrifood companies make their supply chains more resilient to climate risks while reducing emissions, in alignment with the nationally determined contributions and national adaptation plans of the countries where they source, produce, buy, and sell products. At its core, this framework helps businesses move beyond high-level climate commitments and translate net zero and resilience goals into concrete actions that align with national priorities. The framework comprises four key steps: 1. Build management commitment for climate action in supply chains; 2. Implement climate adaptation strategies in supply chains; 3. Reduce supply chain greenhouse gas emissions through targeted mitigation actions; and 4. Track, evaluate, and disclose progress to ensure continuous improvement.
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    From impact to transformation – improving the food supply chains in Kuwait in the context of COVID-19 pandemic
    Kuwait policy note
    2021
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    The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted peoples lives and the State of Kuwait has demonstrated strong commitment in curbing the virus and addressing the impacts on all sectors of society. Kuwait used a variety of instruments and reduced the risks associated with international markets, including ensuring food availability for all by focusing on markets, consumers’ needs and preferences, and most prominently, mobilized the successful efforts of the private sector and civil society. This policy brief is drawn out from three virtual consultations (webinars) organised by United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office in Kuwait in collaboration with ESCWA, FAO, GSSCPD, PAAF, PAFN, and UNOPS2 between May and July 2020. While some recommendations focus on issues in the short term, they primarily target the policy-level actions required for building resilience of food systems to minimise the disruptions in supply chains in the long-term perspectives.
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    Case study: the COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing’s Xinfadi Market and its impact on the food supply chain 2020
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    There were seven confirmed local cases of COVID-19 in Beijing on 11 and 12 June 2020. Epidemiological investigations confirmed that all cases were related to the Beijing Xinfadi Agricultural Produce Wholesale Market. The market supplies 80 percent of Beijing’s demand for agricultural products. Notably, it accounts for roughly 70 percent of Beijing’s market for vegetables. On 13 June, the Xinfadi market and some other markets with COVID-19 cases connected with Xinfadi were temporarily closed. Measures including nucleic acid testing, environment sampling, isolation of close contacts and closed management (controlled entry and exit) of the relevant communities were implemented. Meanwhile, to guarantee food supply, trading areas were moved; trading volumes in other large wholesale markets increased; the point-to-point mechanism for monitoring and replenishing was strengthened; food supply was shipped directly from producers to end retailers; market price control measures were enforced. In this case, the endemic was effectively controlled within four weeks from the outbreak. There were no obvious shortages of the major types of food and prices did not fluctuate significantly. Although there was room for improvement in a few issues such as the way the market was closed, information release and the protection of vulnerable groups, the measures adopted for disease control and food supply guarantee were generally successful.

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