FAO’s Climate Deputy Zitouni Ould-Dada Visits Washington, DC

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19 September 2022, Washington, DC – Ahead of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week in New York, Zitouni Ould-Dada, Deputy-Director for Climate Change, Biodiversity and the Environment at FAO visited Washington, DC.  

During his day-long mission, Ould-Dada met with the Congressional Staff of Representative Joaquin Castro of Texas and Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and underscored the importance of international collaboration to address the global food crisis and climate change through initiatives such as the Aim for Climate. He also met with senior officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and deliberated on how best to scale up innovative solutions in agriculture for food security and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the sector in the lead up to the UNGA, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS50) and the Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh (COP27).  

Ould-Dada also provided key insights on agriculture as a solution to the climate crisis and the newly adopted Climate Change Strategy(2022-2032) in a podcast interview for the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS)Reset the Tables.