La Vía de Acción 5 para la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios: creación de resiliencia frente a vulnerabilidades, conmociones, impactos y tensiones

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 2015, has been described as the most ambitious global action plan in multilateral history. In May 2019, the secretary general presented his report entitled “Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) where he indicated that progress has been slow on many SDGs, and that the global response to date has not been ambitious enough. Hence, that year the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, convened a Food Systems Summit (UNFS), to be held in September 2021, as part of the activities linked to the Decade of Action for the fulfillment of the SDGs by 2030. Since then, discussions at the summit and subsequent actions have been organized around five action pathways (or tracks). In this scenario and based on secondary sources, the objective of the article was to analyze Track 5, with emphasis on aspects such as financing, governance, technology, and innovation. The ambition behind action track 5 is to ensure that food systems are regenerative and circular and thus more resilient to future crises. To this end, action areas, solutions and cross-cutting themes were raised where all people and institutions involved in food systems are empowered to prepare for, withstand and recover from instability, and participate in a food system that, despite crises and stressors, provides food security, nutrition security and equitable livelihoods for all in the face of a world that in the coming years will need to address three problems simultaneously: Economic growth, poverty and ensuring a sustainable future which will require massive investment, as well as creating resilient societies in the face of vulnerabilities, shocks and stresses. The challenge is how countries, their institutions, sectors, territories, items and individuals position themselves and define their roadmaps.