Supporting Food Systems Transformation with Better Access to Essential Data

The FAO webinar will showcase the Food Systems Dashboard - the first open-access platform that brings together global data across all components of the food system. The Dashboard is a global repository of easily accessible and visualizable cross-disciplinary and multisectoral data. It contains over 200 indicators that measure components, drivers, and outcomes of food systems at the country level to allow decision makers and users to gain in-depth insights into the challenges and opportunities facing countries and their food systems and prioritize actions and policies to transform their food systems.

Food system actors and stakeholders need actionable evidence to make decisions that can bring about food system transformation, yet no such mechanism currently exists. The Food Systems Countdown Initiative was created with the intention to provide a scientific measurement and assessment of all aspects of food systems and their interactions and track their progress to 2030. The aim is to guide decision-makers and hold those in power to account for transformation.

This webinar will focus on the importance of data for decision-making – why the Dashboard and the Countdown Initiatives were created, their relevance and their differences and where they will come together.

Speakers and Panelists:

• Dr. Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, GAIN
• Dr. Jess Fanzo, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food Policy and Ethics, Johns Hopkins University
• Dr. Roseline Remans, Senior Scientist, Multifunctional landscapes, The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
• Dr. José Rosero Moncayo, Director, Economic and Social Statistics Division, FAO
• Dr. Mario Herrero, Professor of sustainable food systems and global change in the Department of Global Development, a Cornell Atkinson Scholar, and a Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences, Cornell University
• Dr. Namukolo Covic, Director General’s Representative to Ethiopia Country Convenor, CGIAR Regional Director for East and Southern Africa

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