51st plenary session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 51)

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is an inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for a broad range of committed stakeholders to work together in a coordinated manner and in support of country-led processes towards the elimination of hunger and ensuring food security and nutrition for all, for the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security.

During its 51st Session, the CFS is set to endorse the Policy Recommendations on Strengthening Food Security and Nutrition Data Collection and Analysis Tools for Food Security. Additionally, the Plenary will include two stocktaking sessions: a presentation on the progress of the follow-up to the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) as well as a global thematic event on the monitoring of the two Policy Recommendations on Price Volatility and Food Security, and on Social Protection for Food Security and Nutrition.

On the same week, the 50x2030 Initiative will be co-hosting side event 8 "What it takes: from effective data generation to use to drive better policies and programmes in food security and nutrition", on Tuesday, 24 October. This side event will showcase experiences of generating and using data from three data-focused initiatives: 1) the learnings from the 50x2030 initiative to Close the Agricultural Data Gap based on a partnership between IFAD, FAO and the World Bank, aiming to strengthen data systems in lower and lower-middle income countries to enhance decision-making for agriculture and food security; 2) two initiatives from the European Union: the European Commission-Nutrition Information System (EC-NIS) project to strengthen the generation and capacity of nutrition data within health information systems and beyond; and the National Information Platforms for Nutrition (NIPN) initiative to transform data and multisectoral nutrition information systems to influence and drive programmes and policies. Register here for in-person or virtual modality.