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Independent
Aotearoa (NZ)
Food Systems
SUMMIT Friday
26 March
Dialogue
2021
Summary Report
by Anna Mayne, AgRESTORE
Supported by: Sponsored by:
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Contents Overview
2 Contents In June 2020, the inaugural Aotearoa Food System Dialogue (FSD) event was
convened by Emily King of Spira, with myself as supporting convener, which
successfully involved 7 breakout tables. The comprehensive summary report can
3 Overview be found on the FSD website.
Faster lines of awareness and communication are needed if we are to beat down
5 Framework the barriers of progress to reduce the threat of going over the 1.50C threshold by
2030. This has become even more urgent since learning that the Amazon Basin
7 Topics Overview is now no longer a carbon sink (absorbs carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere)
but an emitter (releases methane and nitrous oxide).
8 Food Waste The approach decided upon for our dialogue was to establish the key outcomes
from the June 2020 Aotearoa FSD, and then identify dialogue facilitators to take
those key outcomes forward in three particular areas. The 3 issues determined to
9 Nutrition be the most pertinent to move forward with were:
1. Topic 5: Food waste is reduced by 50% across food business
10 Food Sovereignty operations by 2030. It was signalled that success would come if there
is collaboration and data collection across the food supply chain, where
12 Divergence Issues formalised collaboration between business is achieved through a voluntary
agreement, with targets, measurement and reporting requirements.
14 Invite This became our Table 1: Food Waste Reduction 2022-2025. See page 8
for details.
15 Agenda 2. Topic 4: Healthy nutritious, and culturally appropriate food is available
for all New Zealanders, especially our vulnerable communities. All
New Zealanders are food secure. Astonishingly, I read that this group
16 Declaration of Interdependence had highlighted that there has not been a ‘Population Nutrition Survey’
done since 2008 here in NZ.
18 Conclusion I had to ask why not? Thus, this effort became our Table 2: Better Nutrition
for Better Health 2022-2025. See page 9 for details.
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3. The Report’s Summary. Emily King did an excellent wrap up, which strongly
indicated the disconnect across the entire food system here and that this
needed working on immediately.
Hence, this is how we arrived at Table 3: How are hapū (the traditional
ancestral Māori sub-tribes) and their rural communities going to be part
of the newly launched NZ National Food Strategy, which blossomed to
become a topic on Food Sovereignty. See page 10 for details.
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As part of the build up, 5 days from the dialogue going live, the break out table
facilitators emailed their participants a pertinent participatory paper along with Framework
a video link: Scientists climate warning. This very current message of December
2020, is Dr William Ripple’s (USA) effort to help reduce heat-trap and full
extinction. Our FSSD completely embraced the FSSD framework offered.
For the above reasons, our efforts focused on Sustainable Development Goal 1. Our convener, curator, facilitators and one scribe took part in the training
12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), and Action Track 2 (shift to offered by 4SD. This session and the follow up emails were incredibly
sustainable consumption patterns). Supporting evidence for this particular focus useful, providing structure and skills to improve the confidence of us all to
is due to acknowledging the significance of two global speeches: deliver and get results from our FSSD.
1. Prince Charles’ Speech, World Economic Forum, January 2020 2. Each breakout table question/topic under discussion was negotiated by
This was delivered just before Covid-19 hit the world. the convener and facilitator and ultimately decided upon by the facilitator.
As a convener who had taken part in 2020, it was obvious to me that the
2. David Suzuki’s Speech, UN Earth Summit, Brazil 1992 most effective results would come from specialists in their fields actually
The declaration of interdependence. driving their own ‘wheel spoke dialogues’. So, I handed over the invite list
A heart felt thank you to everyone involved in our Independent Aotearoa Food and management of all communications to their invitees to our facilitators.
Systems Summit Dialogue (FSSD). To all sovereign Māori and caring citizens of 3. In order to assist the facilitators with time pressure (they all have full-time
Aotearoa (NZ) who took the time to take part and allow our facilitators to do work positions), I provided appropriate templates which each facilitator
their job as per the FSD framework. could edit as needed.
Thanks also to AGMARDT for sponsoring the FSSD, NZ Food Champions 12.3 4. Invites were sent out 3 weeks prior to the event. See page 14.
and AgRESTORE™ for supporting this dialogue, Joy Dunsheath JP (Honorary
Life Member United Nations Association NZ, based in New York) for officially 5. Two weeks out, a follow up email was sent to all participants by each
opening our FSSD, Tui Bedggood for hosting our convener, and to Sipi Waitai- facilitator reminding them of the date, advising them that a Zoom link
Ifopo and Judith Hattie for conducting opening and closing karakia/prayer and would be emailed 24-48hrs prior to the live event, and to read the attached
helping us all sing traditional waiata/songs as per tikanga/Māori traditional participatory paper. This would strategically ensure all participants at the
meeting protocol. table had uniform information to intellectually bond with/utilise. It also
provided each facilitator with information to springboard off to begin the
And a special thank you to the Aotearoa FSSD team (see page 14). FSSD session confidently.
Mauri ora 6. The agenda for the day was set and it was decided that this was to be an
internal document only, to keep the element of surprise alive to the Zoom
audience and keep them curious as to ‘what’s next?’. The dialogue session
was 3 hrs long and as convener I knew ‘the show’ had to be uplifting and
utilise engaging touch-points. See page 15.
Anna Mayne
7. The touch-points included the speakers and their topics in the 35min
introduction time, where sponsors were given 2-5 minutes to speak, along
with selected persons of interest. For example, Jared Hikitia, a young highly
capable and energetic Māori sovereign who has spear-headed his own
family and community ‘food forest’ production unit in the far north of New
Zealand, and Joy Dunsheath, who did a superb job radiating inclusivity/
kotahitanga/oneness—the good ethos of the UN.
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8. In order to bind everyone taking place together, the following global
speeches and information was utilised throughout the build up to the event Breakout Tables Overview
and afterwards.
a) Prince Charles’ Speech, World Economic Forum, January 2020 Each breakout table consisted of 10-12 participants, led by the dialogue facilitator
Prince Charles’s speech was delivered at the World Economic Forum and supported by a scribe.
50 year anniversary in January 2020 where a FSSD was held. This was
delivered just before Covid-19 hit the world. The convener sent this link Each facilitator invited a diverse group of stakeholders who interact with the food
to all Facilitators 6 weeks out from the Dialogue. supply chain, such as those working in government, industry, research institutions,
community representatives and iwi.
b) Participatory Papers designated by each dialogue facilitator were
emailed to break out table participants, curator and convener 2 weeks The three tables were:
out from the Dialogue.
Table 1: NZ Food Waste Champions 12.3, 2020 Progress Report on
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3, the Food Waste
Reduction Roadmap and a link to additional publications.
1. Food Waste Reduction
Table 2: Diets for a Better Future and a link to the Seven Critical Points
from the Diets for a Better Future.
Table 3: Emily King’s FSSD report and a recent discussion held about
Māori Food Sovereignty.
c) Dr William Ripple (USA), World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate
Emergency Dr William Ripple’s effort to help reduce the threat of heat- 2. Better Nutrition for Better Health
trap, which is strongly suggested should become the new narrative,
taking over from climate change. The convener emailed to everyone
involved 2 weeks out as part of the roll out of b) above.
d) David Suzuki’s Speech, UN Earth Summit, Brazil 1992
David Suzuki’s 1992 Declaration of Interdependence speech which he
delivered at the 1992 UN Earth Summit held in Rio, Brazil. The convener
emailed this to all participants of the FSSD event held on March 26th 3. Food Sovereignty
2021, as only selected lines where read out by the convener during the
Dialogue.
e) Thank You On the 5th April 2021, the convener sent a thank you email
to everyone involved in the zoom Dialogue held on the 26th March, The question each table was to focus on was to help them provide solutions on
2021. The email indicating the success of our first FSSD and that some what could be done to make change happen between the years 2022-2025.
facilitators had asked for a follow up FSSD which will take place in June
2021. David Suzuki’s 1992 Declaration of Interdependence speech was
included as an attachment See page 16.
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Food Waste Reduction Better Nutrition for Better Health
How do we get key players in the food supply chain to adopt the Between the years of 2022-2025 how do we get the most
internationally recognised Target, Measure and Act approach accurate data on what the people of Aotearoa are eating,
to reduce food waste in Aotearoa between 2022-2025? where they’re eating and what the challenges are to ensure
that all solutions focused to improve the food security and
nutrition are data-driven and measurable?
Key points from Facilitator’s Official Feedback Form
Table 1 identified multiple motivations to reduce food loss and waste, including: Key points from Facilitator’s Official Feedback Form
social (people are hungry yet we are throwing away food); environmental (carbon
1. Clear data showing regionalised differences across New Zealand
emissions from food waste are significant – 8% globally) and economic (business
motivations and opportunities in alternative markets). A number of actors This includes data on what people are eating, how it is grown and where
(Government, Business and Consumers) needed to play their role to achieve the it is from. It’s important to look at what consumers want and to have data
collective aim of Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3: that takes the full food system into account. This means a broad set of data
that considers differences and represents regions across New Zealand.
1. Government
2. Able to act in a more focused way
• An agreed definition on what is “food waste”
• Measure food waste to create a national baseline and track progress Having baseline data will enable solutions to be put in place that are realistic,
tailored to that community/region and measurable. Data provides insight
• Cross-collaboration within government departments: MfE, MPI and
and in Aotearoa, local insight is key. There would be increased transparency
others
in what people and groups are doing around the country, not needing to
2. Business reinvent the wheel but to learn from each other.
• Funding and signatories for a business Voluntary Commitment 3. Tailored education strategies
• Maintenance of profitability
In order to support the children of Aotearoa we need to ensure we have
• Business case study successes highlighted and celebrated data on what and how this new generation is eating. Organisations that
3. Community provide education to children around food would have better insight from
new data on this generation and it would allow them to provide tailored
• Funding and support for consumer awareness campaigns education and measure the effectiveness.
• Education in schools
• Urban farming and composting developed and funded It’s important to take check on what knowledge there already is, maintain that
knowledge and help future generations regain knowledge. Focusing on gaining
a regionalised understanding of what we are eating, where we are eating and
Our contribution to international efforts to reduce food waste was recognised: what the challenges are is important in Aotearoa. This will differ between regions
Call to Global Action of Food Loss and Waste, 24th Sept, 2020 across New Zealand as well as within regions. Gathering local insights in the form
of stories and evidence of what is happening on the ground is a form of data
Collective Aim collection. This results in local solutions that fit within the full food system.
Priority stakeholders and actions for a business Voluntary Commitment will be A large scale piece of work, such as the National Nutrition Survey, is likely
identified in June 2021 in preparation to seek funding to be able to ‘Act’. government led. There has been work lobbying for a new survey for 10+ years
with no movement. It is a large undertaking that would be unlikely to deliver
This topic could be introduced to be discussed at the NZ State FSSD.
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within 3 years. There was divergence as to whether the government would take by Te Waka Kai Ora (National Māori Organic Authority). There are Hua
action in this area or if it needs to be done independently. Parakore food producers throughout Aotearoa with the potential to create
Māori Indigenous teaching sites on Hua Parakore farms to grow the next
Collective Aim generation of Māori food farmers. Te Waka Kai Ora undertakes a range
of Kaupapa Māori research to support understandings of Māori food
Priority ‘Targets’ and ‘Measurements’ shall be decided in June 2021 in preparation
sovereignty in Aotearoa.
to seek funding to be able to ‘Act’ and to begin talks for this diverse stakeholder
group to be included in the NZ National Food Strategy. • Aotearoa is in the middle of a national roll out of the school lunch
programme to influence food security—215,000 children every day fed by
This topic could be introduced to be discussed at the NZ State FSSD. the Government. Step 1 is to get some healthy food in stomachs—how do
Can we utilise the 2023 Census to swiftly aid our kaupapa/objective too? we make this food from their own takiwā or area?
• Huge opportunity for transformation.
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Collective Aim
Food Sovereignty
To be decided on between:
Between the years of 2022-2025, how do we activate,
enable, connect and charge-up communities to create 1) Communities on the ground have been doing pilots for some time – they
some resilience in the face of the significant change we know what works in their ecosystem. They can scale and are ready to go!
face. But there is no pathway to the next point, no support or funding to get
there.
OR
Key points from Facilitator’s Official Feedback Form
2) Aotearoa is in the middle of a national roll out of the school lunch
• We don’t need any more pilots, we need support to scale! Communities on programme to influence food security – 215,000 children every day fed
the ground have been doing pilots for some time—they know what works by the Government. Step 1 – get some healthy food in stomachs – how do
in their ecosystem. They can scale and are ready to go! But there is no we make this food from their own takiwā or area? Huge opportunity for
pathway to the next point, no support or funding to get there. transformation.
• Expertise and knowledge is silo’ed. An example is that ‘team waste’ doesn’t OR
connect with ‘team food security’. We need a point of connection.
both 1) & 2) combine into supporting Hua Parakore initiatives to serve both
• Enabled communities can start highly productive horticultural projects recognised needs.
including food security and employment in urban centres. However, they
also need to be teaching sites (12-24 month exercise). This will help share Table 3 will then be ready to prioritise ‘Targets’ and ‘Measurements’ to be
knowledge and expertise. decided by September, 2021 in preparation to seek funding to be able to ‘Act’
and to begin talks for this diverse stakeholder group to be included in the NZ
• Make sure our language and thinking includes ecosystem restoration National Food Strategy.
alongside food production.
• Hua Parakore is a food verification system and the only indigenous one This topic could be introduced to be discussed at the NZ State FSSD?
in the world (has 6 principles that connect us to the land and the land Can we utilise the 2023 Census to swiftly aid our kaupapa/objective too?
to us). All of these kaupapa (principles) are interconnected and drawn
from the māramatanga (Māori knowledge) continuum. It was developed
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Divergence Issues
Topic 1: Food Waste Topic 3: Food Sovereignty
• Many players are involved—with different underlying motivations.
None were reported by the Facilitator in this instance, however these divergence
• Government needs to prioritise food waste reduction—especially climate issues need to be addressed:
change links.
1. Why is there no financial support from Govt or Local Bodies for initiatives
• Different levers are required at different stages of the food supply chain. that are already proving successful?
• We need urgent support, as Australia and the UK have achieved, to drive 2. Will the National Food Strategy include stakeholder groups like these '3
a Voluntary Commitment (VC) among businesses and reduce food waste. wheel spoke dialogues' in this FSSD?
The VC should adopt a collaborative approach – lessons can be learned
3. Food Sovereignty needs to have a clear definition to it vs Sovereign Māori
from Sustainable is Attainable.
so there is no confusion but infusion?
Topic 2: Nutrition
• A large scale piece of work, such as the National Nutrition Survey, is likely
to be government led.
• There has been work lobbying for a new survey for 10+ years with no
movement.
• It is a large undertaking that would be unlikely to deliver within 3 years.
• There was divergence as to whether the government would take action in
this area or if it needs to be done independently.
• This issue will be tackled at the 2nd Independent June, 2021 FSSD and also
as Convener I am encouraging some topics be heard and worked on at the
NZ State FSSD.
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Invite Agenda
It is our pleasure to invite you to Independent
participate in the 2nd
Friday
Aotearoa Food 26 March
Aotearoa (NZ) Systems SUMMIT 2021
Zoom Meeting
Dialogue 9am - 12pm
Food Systems Focusing our Lens on...
SUMMIT • SDG 12 (responsible production and consumption)
• Fast-Track 2 (shift to sustainable consumption patterns
Dialogue
with 1.5oC on our minds)
9am-9.10am Whakatau/Settling in Period
9.00am Welcome by Convener, Anna Mayne
Friday 9.01am Opening Karakia/Prayer
TOPICS
26 March
Mihi: Video Te Hiku o Te Ika
Waiata: E Toru Ngā Mea
• Food Waste
2021 9.10-9.35am Opening Plenary
• Nutrition 9.10am Joy Dunsheath
Honorary Lifetime Member of the NZUN
Zoom Meeting
• Food Sovereignty 9am - 12pm
9.15am Tessa Vincent
Thanking Agmart & about Champion 12.3
9.20am Jared Hiakita
Local Food Forest Specialist, Pangaru-Far North
9.25am Angela Clifford
CEO Eat NZ, NZ Food Strategy & Food Sovereignty
9.30am Anna Mayne
- David Suzuki, Declaration of Interdependence
– UN Earth Summit 1992 (Brazil)
- Reminder of rules of the day for break out tables
- Handover to facilitators, scribes and participants
9.35-11am Breakout Tables
Breakout tables do their work, including any breaks as guided by
facilitators. Then at 10.30am, with half an hr to go, a message will flash
up on the screen. This is time to begin summarising all or any priority
findings/actions and designate some feedback work to participants/ This event is supported by
RSVP by scribe where appropriate to help with your feedback session content.
Tue 16 March 11-11.15am Refreshment Break
Breakout tables finish and merge back to one screen. Attendees break
sally@mcfarlanes.nz for refreshments or kupa ti.
11.15-11.55am Session Feedback
11.15am Facilitator Feedback Table 1
Tessa Vincent, Founder nzchampions123.org
11.25am Facilitator Feedback Table 2
Nickie Hursthouse, Independent Dietitian
This event is supported by
11.35am Facilitator Feedback Table 3
Angela Clifford, CEO Eat NZ
11.45-11.55am Closing Plenary
11.45am Thank you by Convener, Anna Mayne
11.55am Closing Karakia/Prayer
Waiata: Te Aroha
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David Suzuki’s While shrinking the inheritance of many are wrong.
And since environmental degradation erodes biological captial forever, full
Declaration of Interdependence
ecological and social cost must enter all equations of development.
We are one brief generation in the long march of time; the future is not ours to
erase.
So where knowledge is limited, we will remember all those who will walk after us,
His speech delivered at the Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992. From his
book, The Autobiography, Pg 281-284. and err on the side of caution.
THIS WE RESOLVE
THIS WE KNOW All this that we know and believe must now become the foundation of the way
We are the earth, through the plants and animals that nourish us. we live.
We are the rains and the oceans that flow through our veins. At this Turning Point in our relationship with Earth, We work for an evolution from
dominance to partnership; from fragmentation to connection; from insecurity to
We are the breath of the forests of the land and the plants of the sea.
interdependence.
We are human animals, related to all other life as descendants of the firstborn cell.
We share with these kin a common history, written in our genes.
We share a common present, filled with uncertainty.
And we share a common future as yet untold.
We humans are but one of thirty million species weaving the thin layer of life
enveloping the world. I read this book in the Summer of 2021, having purchased the book at least a
The stability of communities of living things depends upon this diversity. decade before and just kept it handy, knowing the time would come when I would
Linked in that web, we are interconnected using, cleansing, sharing and replenishing read it. So why did I pick it up?
the fundamental elements of life. My inclination to know more about David Suzuki was inspired by seeing him on
Our home, planet Earth, is finite, all life shares it’s resources and it’s energy from this video produced by Dr William Ripple, his own input to our global effort to
the sun and therefore has limits to growth. reduce ‘heat-trap’ by 2030.
For the first time we have touched those limits.
The necessity to act now gets more urgent every week and the UN FSSD, created
When we compromise the air, the water, the soil and the variety of life, by Dr David Nabarro are an excellent platform ‘to act by identifying strategies to
We steal from the endless future to serve the fleeting present. implement immediately’, all peoples acting as one. In Māori culture this centralising
of intellectual, physical and spiritual energies is referred to as ‘kotahitanga’ – ‘tahi’
THIS WE BELIEVE is one and ‘tanga’ is ‘the action of’.
Humans have become so numerous and our tools so powerful that we have driven If you want to contact me please do via email: anna.mayne@agmonitor.co.nz
fellow creatures to extinction, dammed the great rivers, torn down ancient forests,
Ngā mihi manawa/Kind Regards;
poisoned the earth, rain and wind, and ripped holes in the sky.
Our science has brought pain as well as joy; our comfort is paid for by suffering Anna Mayne
of millions.
We are learning from our mistakes, we are mourning our vanished kin, and now
we build a new politics of hope.
We respect and uphold and absolute need for clean for clean air, water and soil.
We see that economic activities that benefit the few
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Conclusion
Through utilising the FSSD framework, guiding our work towards Sustainable
Development Goal 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), and Action
Track 2 (shift to sustainable consumption patterns), we think we will have the
biggest influence on many other sustainable development goals being achieved
by 2030 and constructively add to the global effort to ensure we do not go over
the 1.5 oC heat-trap threshold.
We have decided to focus upon one workable strategy per breakout table to
achieve by 2025.
We are meeting in June 2021 to review the contributions that participants agreed
to and to further drive progress under each table’s topic. Another report will be
issued following that dialogue.
Aotearoa FSSD Team
Dialogue Convener: Anna Mayne
Dialogue Curators: Anna Mayne and Sally McFarlane
Dialogue Facilitators: Tessa Vincent, Nickie Hursthouse & Angela Clifford
Dialogue Scribes: Amanda Drake, Lisa Busch and Kate Underwood
Dialogue Digital Support: Max Mahkheri
Report by Anna Mayne, AgRESTORE
agrestore.co.nz
anna.mayne@agmonitor.co.nz
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