FAO and GAIN will co-host a trio of high-level ‘roundtable’ webinars with private sector stakeholders as well as stakeholders from government, academia, and civil society, to discuss the practical and strategic engagements and on-going and potential partnerships in reshaping our food systems to provide healthy diets for human health as well as the planet health.
EAT and The Rockefeller Foundation's virtual convening highlighting critical need and unique opportunity for food system transformation in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. The event hosted thousands of colleagues from around the globe for a wide-ranging interactive conversation on the challenges of this moment, the future of our food systems, and how we can drive #FoodSystemsAction.
Under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global community adopted 17 global goals to improve lives by 2030; Goal-2 pledges to end hunger. The world's food systems in theory should be the strategic drivers to reduce hunger, strengthen livelihoods, and improve health.
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming our world. We are seeing rapid changes in areas such as health care delivery, food security, agriculture, and international aid prioritization. In addition to the immediate impact to health and society, the COVID-19 pandemic may result in significant short- and long-term disruptions to food systems.
Over the last 10 years, Giving Women has organised a yearly conference, which examines a theme that affects vulnerable girls and women globally.The 9th Annual Conference will look at the issue of food security and the key role women play in providing food for their families, their communities and the world.
Our food systems are bankrupting our health systems, accelerating climate change and using natural resources in an unsustainable way. Most people agree they need to be transformed to change this. But how? Food systems are complex and offer many entry points for change.