Side Event to the 40th Session of FAO Conference...food production, food access, water safety,...
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Making Agriculture and Food Systems Nutrition‐sensitive and Climate‐smart: A win‐win for the Sustainable Development Goals Thursday, July 6th ‐ 15:30 to 17:00 ‐ IRAQ ROOM (A235) Ensuring food security and good nutrion for all in a sustainable manner is one of the main challenges of our me and at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Globally, 795 million people are undernourished, more than two billion people are affected by micronutrient deficiencies and about one in four children under the age of five is stunted. At the same me 1.9 billion people are overweight of whom 600 million are obese. Climate change affects nutrional status and dietary choices through impacts on food producon, food access, water safety, sanitaon, livelihoods and caregiving. If current trends connue, it is esmated that an addional 1-3 billion people will be affected by water scarcity and 200-600 million will suffer from hunger by 2080, parcularly in sub-Saharan African countries, and millions of people will be affected by the mulple burdens of malnutrion. Food systems and dietary choices are themselves major contributors to climate change. Food systems are esmated to produce around a quarter of total global greenhouse gas emissions, including food producon, post-harvest processes, as well as from food loss and waste. Dietary paerns also strongly influence some of the factors that drive climate change. Ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrion and promong sustainable agriculture, as well as taking urgent acon to combat climate change and its impacts are directly addressed in several global commitments, including the Sustainable Development Goals, the 2015 Paris Agreement, the Framework for Acon adopted by the 2014 Second Internaonal Conference on Nutrion, and the UN General Assembly declaraon of the Decade of Acon on Nutrion 2016-2025. Transforming food systems to become more nutrion-sensive and climate-smart calls for mulple intervenons and requires collecve acons. Strengthening policy frameworks and instuonal arrangements while ensuring coherence at a cross- sectoral and inter-ministerial/inter-instuonal level will be crical to leveraging both public and private sector investments to enable a transformaonal change in food systems. Increasing financial investments will be crical for enabling synergies between nutrion-sensive and climate-smart agriculture and food systems. The objecve of this side event is to bring aenon to the convergence between acons to address climate change and malnutrion, and present opons for response through a food systems approach illustrated by country examples. Provisional Agenda Guest speaker: H.R.H. Princess Viktoria De Bourbon De Parme, Patron of Save the Children the Netherlands Moderator: H.E. Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador, Permanent Representave of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Food and Agriculture Organizaon of the United Naons in Rome Welcome remarks by Kostas Stamoulis and René Castro, Assistants Director-General of the Economic and Social Development Department and of the Climate, Biodiversity, Land and Water Department, FAO Panel • Nutrion challenges in Mozambique: H.R.H. Princess Viktoria De Bourbon De Parme, Patron of Save the Children the Netherlands • Peru: Experiences in food security within the context of climate change - H.E. José Manuel Hernández Calderón, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigaon, Peru • Nutrion and climate change at the global level - Joy Phumaphi, Execuve Secretary, African Leaders Malaria Alliance • Fiji: Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) facing the dual challenge of climate change and unhealthy diets – what can be done? - Hon. Viam Pillay, Assistant Minister for Agriculture, Fiji • Morocco: Mainstreaming nutrion and climate change in sustainable food and agriculture - Lahcen Kenny, Professor, Agronomy and Veterinary Instute Hassan II, ‘Complexe Horcole d’Agadir’ (CHA) • Global Environment Facility (GEF): Financing opportunies for nutrion-sensive and climate-smart food systems - Jeffrey Griffin, Senior Coordinator, GEF Unit, FAO • EAT Foundaon: Healthy diets within planetary boundaries - Gunhild Stordalen, Founder and President, EAT Foundaon Q&A session Closing remarks - H.E. Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador, Permanent Representave of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Food and Agriculture Organizaon of the United Naons in Rome Side Event to the 40th Session of FAO Conference The event will be webcast : www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4378/icode/
Transcript of Side Event to the 40th Session of FAO Conference...food production, food access, water safety,...
Making Agriculture and Food Systems
Nutrition‐sensitive and Climate‐smart: A win‐win for the Sustainable Development Goals
Thursday, July 6th ‐ 15:30 to 17:00 ‐ IRAQ ROOM (A235)
Ensuring food security and good nutrition for all in a sustainable manner is one of the main challenges of our time and at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Globally, 795 million people are undernourished, more than two billion people are affected by micronutrient deficiencies and about one in four children under the age of five is stunted. At the same time 1.9 billion people are overweight of whom 600 million are obese.
Climate change affects nutritional status and dietary choices through impacts on food production, food access, water safety, sanitation, livelihoods and caregiving. If current trends continue, it is estimated that an additional 1-3 billion people will be affected by water scarcity and 200-600 million will suffer from hunger by 2080, particularly in sub-Saharan African countries, and millions of people will be affected by the multiple burdens of malnutrition.
Food systems and dietary choices are themselves major contributors to climate change. Food systems are estimated to produce around a quarter of total global greenhouse gas emissions, including food production, post-harvest processes, as well as from food loss and waste. Dietary patterns also strongly influence some of the factors that drive climate change.
Ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture, as well as taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts are directly addressed in several global commitments, including the Sustainable Development Goals, the 2015 Paris Agreement, the Framework for Action adopted by the 2014 Second International Conference on Nutrition, and the UN General Assembly declaration of the Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025.
Transforming food systems to become more nutrition-sensitive and climate-smart calls for multiple interventions and requires collective actions. Strengthening policy frameworks and institutional arrangements while ensuring coherence at a cross-sectoral and inter-ministerial/inter-institutional level will be critical to leveraging both public and private sector investments to enable a transformational change in food systems. Increasing financial investments will be critical for enabling synergies between nutrition-sensitive and climate-smart agriculture and food systems.
The objective of this side event is to bring attention to the convergence between actions to address climate change and malnutrition, and present options for response through a food systems approach illustrated by country examples.
Provisional AgendaGuest speaker: H.R.H. Princess Viktoria De Bourbon De Parme, Patron of Save the Children the Netherlands
Moderator: H.E. Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome
Welcome remarks by Kostas Stamoulis and René Castro, Assistants Director-General of the Economic and Social Development Department and of the Climate, Biodiversity, Land and Water Department, FAO
Panel • Nutrition challenges in Mozambique: H.R.H. Princess Viktoria De Bourbon De Parme, Patron of Save the Children the Netherlands• Peru: Experiences in food security within the context of climate change - H.E. José Manuel Hernández Calderón, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, Peru• Nutrition and climate change at the global level - Joy Phumaphi, Executive Secretary, African Leaders Malaria Alliance• Fiji: Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) facing the dual challenge of climate change and unhealthy diets – what can be done? - Hon. Viam Pillay, Assistant Minister for Agriculture, Fiji• Morocco: Mainstreaming nutrition and climate change in sustainable food and agriculture - Lahcen Kenny, Professor, Agronomy and Veterinary Institute Hassan II, ‘Complexe Horticole d’Agadir’ (CHA)• Global Environment Facility (GEF): Financing opportunities for nutrition-sensitive and climate-smart food systems - Jeffrey Griffin, Senior Coordinator, GEF Unit, FAO• EAT Foundation: Healthy diets within planetary boundaries - Gunhild Stordalen, Founder and President, EAT Foundation
Q&A session
Closing remarks - H.E. Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome
Side Event to the 40th Session of FAO Conference
The event will be webcast : www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4378/icode/
