Date: 13 - 15 October 2020
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm (Rome time)
The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will organize a High-Level Virtual Special Event on Global Governance of Food Security and Nutrition, 13 - 15 October 2020. The session, in lieu of CFS 47 which has been rescheduled to 8 - 12 February 2021 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, will seek to keep food security and nutrition front and centre on the global sustainable development agenda.
Over the course of these 3 days, CFS will organize three high-level virtual plenaries, one per day, to:
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The Special Event will be attended by thousands of people who care about global food security and nutrition, Speakers will include the UN Deputy Secretary General, Heads of UN agencies (FAO, WFP, IFAD, WHO, UNICEF and ILO), ministers of agriculture from around the globe, and a variety of food security leaders from every continent. See CFS Special Event PROGRAMME for more on the speakers and sessions we have lined up for you.
DAY ONE: OVERVIEW OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION SITUATION
Moderator: Musonda Mumba, Chair, Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR)
Part 1: Opening Ceremony (30 mins)
Part 2: Setting the Scene: Evidence and Science (20 mins)
Part 3: Moderated Open Discussion (30 mins)
Part 4: Country-led Action: Ministerial Roundtable (50 mins)
Part 5: Audience Interactive Question & Answer Session (45 mins)
Part 6: Wrap-up and key highlights by moderator. Closing remarks by CFS Chair (5 mins)
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DAY TWO: COVID-19 AND ITS IMPACTS ON GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION
Moderator: David Nabarro, Strategic Director, 4SD
Part 1: Opening and Welcome (5 mins)
Thanawat Tiensin, CFS Chairperson.
Part 2: Setting the Scene (30 mins)
Part 3: Panel Discussion: Coping strategies, lessons learned and building resilience to prevent future pandemics (70 mins)
Part 4: Audience Interactive Question & Answer Session (70 mins)
Part 5: Wrap-up, closing remarks by moderator (5 mins)
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DAY THREE: FOOD SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION
Moderator: Corinna Hawkes, Director, Centre for Food Policy, City University of London
Part 1: Opening and Welcome (5 mins)
Part 2: Setting the Scene (10 mins)
Amina Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary General - Keynote address on rethinking the governance of food systems to achieve SDG 2
Part 3: Rapid Fire Interventions: Responses to the keynote address, focusing on strategies to drive food systems transformation at scale. (15 mins)
Part 4: Panel Discussion: Contribution of the two ongoing CFS policy processes towards sustainable food systems (60 mins).
Part 5: Audience Interactive Question & Answer Session (60 mins)
Part 6: CFS and the 2021 Food Systems Summit (20 mins)
Part 7: Event Closing Ceremony (10 mins)
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To enrich and complement the plenary discussions and to give its partners and stakeholders an opportunity to highlight their work, CFS will organize 12 virtual partners events over the three days – 4 per day. The partners events (two in the morning before plenary and two in the afternoon after plenary), will be hosted/co-hosted and organized by CFS stakeholders. Each event will be allocated one and a half hours. Here is a Schedule of the 12 Partners Events
SUMMARIES OF PARTNERS EVENTS
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If you have any questions and/or for more information, please contact the CFS Secretariat at [email protected]
Day 1: Statements & Presentations
Day 2: Statements and Presentations
Day 3: Statements & Presentations