Side event at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) 51st Annual Session

Organizers:

Canada, Germany, New Zealand, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Global Agriculture & Food Security Program, Forest and Farm Facility, Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, World Health Organization, SUN Movement and the UN-Nutrition Secretariat.

Date

Wednesday, 25 October. 8:30 – 9:45 CEST, Hybrid event

Virtual Registration

For virtual attendance please register here

Background

Climate change and malnutrition are two of the greatest challenges facing humanity today and they are intrinsically intertwined. Through the strategic integration of these priorities, a comprehensive solution can be provided to concurrently address two major obstacles to sustainable development. The CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition (VGFSyN) provide a systemic, multi-sectoral science and evidence-based approach to implementing interventions to deliver healthy diets. However, the persistent divide between the climate and nutrition communities leads to fragmentation in policy and action implementation.

This side event will present the Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN) and launch two reports highlighting the latest developments in evidence base. A panel discussion and open forum discussion led by the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme  (GAFSP) will showcase examples of integrated climate and nutrition actions and strategies implemented across diverse projects driven by recipient countries, and by forest and farmer producer organizations in response to climate and nutrition challenges. This forum will also provide a platform for discussing the need for financial resources to support these strategies. The outcomes of the event will contribute to removing financial barriers for integrated action and contributing to shaping the roadmap to COP28 and beyond.

Objectives

• To present and provide an update on I-CAN and raise awareness about the critical nexus of climate change and nutrition
• To launch two papers of the latest findings of the I-CAN group on evidence of systems pathways, integrated actions and baseline results
• To present project examples of integration of climate and nutrition and share learnings from country, CSO and farmer organization experiences
• To explore how I-CAN and GAFSP can advance the implementation of CFS policy tools such as VGFSyN

Moderator

Lina Mahy, World Health Organization

Speakers

• Bassam Essam Rady Abdelhamid Rady, Egypt
• Nancy Aburto, Food and Agriculture Organization 
• Jessica Colston, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
• Phommy Inthichah, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
• Julian Lampietti, World Bank Agriculture and Food Global Practice
• Adama Touré, Global Agriculture & Food Security Program 
• Afshan Khan, SUN Global Coordinator