Committee on World Food Security
Making a difference in food security and nutrition
Paris Peace Forum
Title: Alliance for Multilateralism - Sustainable food systems, central to our common agenda: climate, health, environment, and the fight against inequalities
Date: 13 November 2021
Time: 10:15 - 11:15
The transition to healthier, more sustainable, and more resilient food systems is central to achieving our common agenda and building back better after the Covid-19 pandemic. Following the United Nations Food Systems Summit held on 23 and 24 September 2021, this meeting, co-hosted by ministers Jean-Yves Le Drian and Heiko Maas, will highlight the interactions between agricultural and food challenges on the one hand and environmental, health, nutrition, and inequalities challenges on the other.
Speakers:
- H.E. Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France
- H.E. Heiko Maas, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Germany
- Jean-Philippe Dop Deputy Director General World Organization for Animal Health
- H.E. David Beasley Executive Director World Food Programme (WFP)
- Elisabeth Claverie, President and CEO, Agricultural Research Centre for International Cooperation (CIRAD)
- Jean-Luc Angot, Special Envoy, PREZODE
- H.E. Gabriel Ferrero, Chair, Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Read the remarks by the CFS Chair here (check against delivery).
More information available here.