RECOMMENDATIONS
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In a context where most stakeholders recognise that the achievement of FNS under climate change requires changes in food systems, the role of the GACSA should foremost be that of a platform for experiences and knowledge sharing in order to:
(a) analyse the respective strengths/weaknesses of different agriculture development models—including agroecology—with clear and explicit performance criteria;
(b) propose explicit representations of the transformative pathways which could lead food systems to sustainably deliver FNS in contrasted situations.
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To play such a role, the GACSA should be endowed with clearer accountability mechanisms with a need to:
(a) render explicit both the objectives and the set of guidelines the projects carried out under the GACSA umbrella have to follow;
(b) establish a monitoring system to assess the social, economic and environmental impacts of projects developed by Alliance members altogether with their compliance with the above mentioned guidelines.
- The Alliance should explicitly respond to the concerns publicly expressed by civil society organisations (CSOs), in reaction to which those CSOs could reconsider their refusal to get involved in the GACSA.
