There are numerous ways that land- and sea-based food provisioning systems can transition to nature-positive production, but there are also numerous and significant challenges to doing so, especially at a scale and pace sufficient to meet the world’s growing food and nutrition needs. Protecting biodiversity, ensuring sustainability, building resilience to climate change, and fostering equity will require bold action and sensitivity to the needs of vulnerable communities.

On May 25th, 2021 EDF convened this Independent Dialogue event as part of our engagement ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit, happening in the fall of 2021. This Dialogue brought together smallholder stakeholders producing food across both land and sea who are working to achieve nature positive production. Our aim was to foster collaboration that can help move the needle across sectors, and to channel their voices to food system decision-makers. Although most of the event was under Chatham House Rules, the Introductory Remarks, Keynote Presentations, and Panel Discussion were recorded, and are presented here.

Introductory Remarks: Nichola Dyer, Senior Advisor, Safe Seaweed Coalition; retired Global Agriculture and Food Security Program Manager at the World Bank

Keynote Speakers:
• Honorable Jose Luis Chicoma, Minister of Production, Peru
• Olga Petryniak, Mercy Corps

Panelists:
• Bren Smith, Executive Director of GreenWave and regenerative ocean farmer in the Northeast USA
• Malla Reddy, Director of Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre: working with small farmers to promote Natural Farming in the semi-arid district of Anantapur, South India
• Ariel Henriquez, Lonko of the Wafo Wapi community, social leader, artisanal fisherman, shellfish diver and human rights defender from Guafo, Chile
• Henrry Preciado Chune, mariculturist and Technical Manager of the Mangrove Consortium in Tumbes Peru, and coordinator for the World Bank Peruvian National Fishing and Aquaculture Innovation program (PNIPA)
• Miswan and Ayu Listiani Putri, small-scale fisher and enumerator (respectively) in the Blue Swimming Crab fishery in Margasari village, East Lampung, Indonesia, where members are working to improve sustainability and resilience
• Djibo Bagna, small-scale farmer and Chief of Namari Peulh village in Niger, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Peasant Platform of Niger, former President of the West African Network of Peasant Farmer Organisations (ROPPA)

Note: Multiple languages were spoken during this event. In this version of the recording we have dubbed the Spanish, French, and Bahasa Indonesia language portions into English to enable the YouTube Subtitle function for viewing in any language. If you would like to view an un-dubbed version of this recording, please contact Willow Battista at wbattista@edf.org.

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