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Strengthening Sustainable Food Systems in the Bolivian Amazon to Live Well in Harmony with Mother Earth 

Bolivia’s 2030 vision included in the National Pathways is twofold: reforming the food systems based on the agroindustry and supporting those based on traditional agriculture. A very important focus for the country is to recognize the urgency to rescue the cultural knowledge and the traditional and ancestral practices due to their value and the fact that they still provide nutritious and sustainable food and livelihoods to many.

The country’s food systems governance directly falls under an interministerial committee is pursuing the implementation of the Pathway and a multilevel Council for Food and Nutrition has been promoting the incorporation of right to food across all development plans, as it has been integrated in the constitution already.

• Strengthening the traditional agriculture sector in harmony with Amazon’s ecosystem and indigenous culture will anchor the sustainable and climate-resilient transformation of Bolivia’s food system. 
• Improving smallholders’ productive and resilience capacity with special attention to marginalized groups and strengthen community market access and competitiveness. 
• Enhancing governance capacity in local and national governments to create enabling environment for food systems transformation.

Co-chaired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• Small producers, including women and youth from the indigenous population in the Bolivia Amazon, have strengthened their productive, organizational, climate adaptive, and business capacity to participate more effectively in the agri-food value chain
• Small producers and local market participants have increased commercial competitiveness and better access to local, national, and international markets with a wider range of quality and safe Amazonian produce
• Technical capacity of decision-makers in municipal and national governments is enhanced to create an enabling environment for sustainable food value chains and support the implementation of the National Food Systems Pathway