46th Plenary Session of the Committee on World Food Security

Time period

14 Oct 2019-18 Oct 2019

Venue

Rome, Italy

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition for all. The Committee reports to the UN General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to FAO Conference. Find out more here.

The 46th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will take place on 14-18 October 2019, FAO, Rome, Italy

World Agroforestry will participate in the following events:

Dat and Venue

Event

Wednesday 16 October 2019

16:00hrs

Plenary Hall, 3rd Floor Building A

VIII Agroecological and other Innovative Approaches

The HLPE Report on “Agroecological and Other Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems that Enhance Food Security and Nutrition” is the basis of this session. The objective to discuss the policy relevant findings and recommendations of the report and give guidance on the issues to be addressed during the CFS policy convergence process that will start at CFS 46.

Patrick Caron, Chair of the HLPE Steering Committee
Fergus Sinclair, HLPE Project Team Leader
Moderator: Kwesi Atta-Krah, Director, Advocacy and Country Alignment at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
Discussant: Musonda Mumba, Chief of the Terrestrial Ecosystems, UNEP

Webcast link

Publications

Summary and Recommendations of the HLPE Report on Agroecological and Other Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems that Enhance Food Security and Nutrition

HLPE (2019) on Agroecological and Other Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems that Enhance Food Security and Nutrition

Thursday 16 October 2019

13:00-14:30hrs

Lebanon Room

Agroforestry - an agroecological pathway to SDG2

Hosted by CGIAR Research Programme on Forests Trees and Agroforestry, Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI) and VI Agroforestry Network

Agroforestry can deliver benefits at local and global level, offering a range of exemplary systems by which agriculture can concretely show its contribution to SDG2 on food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture, as well as to a range of other objectives.

This event will gather a multi-stakeholder panel to discuss, in the perspective of the HLPE report and the recommendations of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), the opportunities, but also challenges, to scale-up agroforestry.

Introduction: Vincent Gitz, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA)

Panel discussion:

Maria Elena Rojas, Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, Peru (TBC)
Per Callenberg, State Secretary for the Minister of Rural Affairs, Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, Sweden
Fergus Sinclair, HLPE, FTA, ICRAF
Esther Penunia, Secretary General of AFA (Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development), Philippines and Civil Society Mechanism of the CFS
Nur Amalia, National Social Forestry Working Group, Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia
Tiina Vahanen, Chief, Policy and Resources Division, FAO
Caroline Musee, Vi-agroforestry

Moderator: Maria Schultz, Agroforestry Network, Vi-agroforestry

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