Leadership Dialogue: Food Systems for the Planet

Date: 25 July

Time: 11:00-12:30 CET

Location: FAO HQ, Green Room (1st Floor, Building A)

Description: By 2050, feeding a global population of almost 10 billion will  require a radical transformation in how food is produced, processed, traded and consumed. Current food systems are failing to deliver overall positive outcomes for people, prosperity or the planet. To compound this, the world is facing a Triple Planetary Crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change and  pollution.  This Leadership dialogue will explore progress made  in how environmental sustainability has been considered in country level actions, the barriers that farmers and other stakeholders face as well as enabling frameworks and means of implementation and scaling up.

Programme:

• Short video: Feeding the world while nourishing the planet: Food systems stocktake
• Opening: Highlight the linkages between the three Leadership Dialogues focusing on the Peoples, Planet and Prosperity dimensions of the food systems transformation
• Panel 1:  Will look at the experiences of countries in mainstreaming the environment (climate change, biodiversity and pollution) into national agri-food systems transformation pathways and strategies and how global environmental processes can support this.
• Panel 2:  Will focus on integrated and systemic approaches and solutions that cover multiple food systems outcomes.
• Closing: Summary of the discussion and put forward of actual solutions that could deliver a diversity of outcomes in the near future.

Speakers:

Panel 1:

• Ms. Susan Gardner, Director, Ecosystems Division, UNEP (moderator)
• Mr. Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Economic cooperation and Development, Germany
• Mr. Masia Johane, Deputy Principal Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Lesotho
• Ms Estrella Penunia, Secretary General Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA)
• Mr. Peter Umunay, Senior Environmental Specialist, Global Environmental Facility (GEF)

Panel 2 : 

• Mr. Kaveh Zahedi, Director, Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO (moderator)
• Ms. Diane Holdorf, Executive Vice President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
• Mr. Joao Campari, Global Leader, Food Practice, Worldwide Fund (WWF)
• Ms. Eija Hietavuo, Vice President Corporate Affairs, Tetra Pak International
• Ms. Mansi Shah, Senior Technical Coordinator, Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)