In this piece, Emile Frison responds to the questions posed by Corinna Hawkes’ initial post on the SDGs: "What are some specific actions we can take to increase coherence between policies designed to enhance nutrition and those designed to promote sustainability? And what are the governance mechanisms we need to implement them?" Emile is Chair of the International Scientific Committee on Sustainable Food Systems of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation; a Member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food); and Former Director General of Bioversity International. During his time at Bioversity, he developed a strategy entitled “Diversity for Well-being” focusing on the contribution that agricultural biodiversity makes to the sustainability, resilience and productivity of smallholder agriculture and to the nutritional quality of diets. You can contact Emile via member messaging here (note you will need to be logged in as a member on the FCRN website). We also welcome comments below this post are of course welcome – again, you’ll need to be logged in.For the two subsequesnt posts in the series see; Creating successful multi-stakeholder partnerships key to address the Global Goals – the experience of The Netherlands by Marcel Beukeboom who heads the Food & Nutrition Security cluster at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands and the last post in the series, Metrics Matter by Anna Taylor, Executive Director of the Food Foundation.

In this piece, Duncan Williamson reviews the Global Nutrition Report in the context of other developing food and sustainability policy.Duncan has been working internationally in the field of sustainable systems for 20 years. For the last seven, has been leading WWF UK’s food work while also leading the international WWF Network’s position on sustainable diets and coordinating its work on sustainable food security- which recently co-produced a report with the Food Ethics Council entitled: From Individual to Collective action; exploring the business cases for addressing sustainable food security. Duncan is the originator of WWF’s ongoing Livewell project, which demonstrates that a healthy diet can be sustainable.  He also interacts closely with other organisations, including Eating Better , a cross sectorial coalition on NGOs working on meat consumption, where he is a director. An FCRN member since 2009, Duncan sits on the FCRN’s advisory board.

In this piece, policy analyst Corinna Hawkes kicks off a new FCRN blog series that harnesses the expertise of the FCRN network to generate an in-depth, extended discussion on a particular theme.The focus of this first in the series is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – their strengths, weaknesses and the opportunities they raise.  The new Pass the Parcel series works like this: Corinna’s blog starts off the discussion with her take on the SDGs, and she ends her post with a question posed to another FCRN member, whose challenge will be to address it.  We will then publish this next blog post in a week or two’s time. Do let us know if you like the idea, and if you have particular themes or issues that you’d like to see discussed. For number two in this series, see SDGs: we missed a boat, but it is not too late to focus on Sustainable Food Systems by Emile Frison, Chair of the International Scientific Committee on Sustainable Food Systems of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation and a Member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food). For number three in the series see Creating successful multi-stakeholder partnerships key to address the Global Goals – the experience of The Netherlands by Marcel Beukeboom who heads the Food & Nutrition Security cluster at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands and the fourth aand last one in the series is Metrics Matter by Anna Taylor, Executive Director of the Food Foundation.This post is written by FCRN member Corinna Hawkes –Co-Chair of the Independent Expert Group of the Global Nutrition Report and a member of the International panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.