Recordings month of July 2023

 24-27 July UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment

12 Heads of State, 40 Ministers, and 400 other country delegates as well as 200 representatives of non-state actors gathered in Rome to share their updates in implementing their national food systems transition pathways. The outcomes of the Stocktaking Moment will be taken to the SDG Acceleration Summit in September.

Extract of the panel discussions:

• 24/07 High-level Session of the UN Food Systems Summit
• 24/07 Side Event: Towards healthy and sustainable food systems
• 25/07 Building Africa's Food Sovereignty and Resilience through Sustainable Investments
• 25/07 Value Chains for Resilient Food Systems
• 25/07 Side Event: The Sustainable Livestock Journey
• 26/07 Partnerships for food systems convened by the Sahel and West Africa Club
• 26/07 Mobilizing Means Of Implementation for food system transformation
• 26/07 Private Sector
• 26/07 Trade
• 26/07 Side event: Science and innovation for people, planet and nature
• 26/07 Side Event: Multi-stakeholder collaboration for FS transformation. From concepts to action
• 26/07 Side Event: Youth Leading Transformation. Accelerating Inclusive Food Systems with UNFSS
• 26/07 Side Event: Agrifood Transformation for the SDGs: Innovations and SMEs as the gamechangers
• 27/07 Side Event: Achieving sustainable food systems in a time of multiple crises
• 27/07 Side Event: Scaling up multi-stakeholder investments in the food systems in Nigeria

20 July. IFPRI seminar, Irregular Migration and Food Security: A View from West Africa

This virtual seminar presented study results and the website, with discussion by researchers from IFPRI, WFP, and MIT as well as other experts.

19 July. Scaling up Agroecology: Grassroots Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges.

In this webinar activists, practitioners and scholars presented promising advances in the scaling up of agroecology, as well as possible next steps to grow even more exponentially.

12 July. High-Level Launch of the 2023 Report of “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World” 

by FAO in the margins of the 2023 High-Level Political Forum.

6 -8 July. First Africa-Spain Cooperation Summit.

5 July. Gender and Agroecology Webinar: Boosting the potential of women farmers as protagonist of agroecological experiences: stories from the field.

6 July + 28 June IFAD Innovation Talk & Day

• Financing innovation for rural and agricultural development
• Funding evidence-based innovative solutions to rural development. Challenges: the case of the fund for innovation in development
• Multi-stakeholder partnerships to scale up innovation
• Innovating for well-being: exploring the latest indicators for indigenous peoples
• Collaborate to innovate and impact at systemic level