Joint UN Food Systems Summit follow-up Special side event contributing to the 2022 HLPF
Date: Friday 15 July 2022
Time: 13:00-14:30 EDT (New York)
Venue: Conference Room 12 (CR-12) UNHQ – New York
Co-hosted by: Dominican Republic, Kenya, Nigeria, Portugal, and the Kingdom of Spain
Participation: This is an in-person event open to all HLPF participants. It will also be available to online audiences via webcast.
Objectives
This HLPF side event, jointly organized by CFS and the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, aims to:
Background
There are only eight years left to fulfil the ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet the global food system is under unprecedented pressure. To keep us on track to achieve our collective vision for 2030, transformation is essential for accelerating progress on all SDGs by lifting people out of poverty, ending hunger and malnutrition, preserving natural resources and ecosystems, and mitigating and adapting to climate change.
The UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), held in September 2021 offered a catalytic moment for public mobilization and actionable commitments by Heads of State and Government and other constituency leaders to take this agenda forward. An outcome of the UNFSS was the development of more than 100 National Pathways for food systems transformation that can accelerate the realization of the 2030 Agenda at country level.
Strengthening effective and inclusive collective action at all levels is also at the core of CFS, which serves as an evidence-based, intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder platform to promote policy convergence and coherence on global food security and nutrition issues, in support of country-led processes. Its agreements and policy tools are directly relevant to the policy changes needed to transform agri-food systems to ones that produce healthy diets, sustainably while strengthening livelihoods and other key developmental objectives.
Tentative programme
Opening and welcoming remarks |
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Opening remarks by H.E. Gabriel Ferrero y de Loma-Osorio, CFS Chairperson, Ambassador at Large Global Food Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain
Welcoming remarks by H.E. Pilar Cancela Rodríguez, Secretary of State for International Cooperation – Kingdom of Spain |
Transformations are happening |
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Moderators:
Panelists:
Q&A and open floor discussion Respondents:
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Closing remarks |
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Closing remarks by H.E. Gabriel Ferrero y de Loma-Osorio, CFS Chairperson, Ambassador at Large Global Food Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain |