African Agriculture @ UNGA 73 and Global Goals Week (6)

23-29 September 2018. New York. Food systems, hunger and nutrition received a great deal of attention during Global Goals Week.

25 September 2015. Food System Approaches to the Prevention of NCDs.

The burden of malnutrition is two-fold and concurrent with devastating rates of undernutrition and overnutrition across the world – as many as 815 million people are hungry and 2 billion are micronutrient deficient while 1.9 billion are overweight and 600 million are obese. Malnutrition is now a leading cause of NCDs, which have proven devastating socioeconomic impacts on individuals, communities, and entire economies.

Run of Show
Concept Note

Panel 1: The importance of healthy and sustainable food systems for NCDs 

Panel presentations 

• Moderator: Dr. David Nabarro (Curator of the Food Systems Dialogues) 
• H.E. Nikolai Astrup (Minister of International development, Government of Norway) 
• H.E. Prof. Nila F. Moeloek (Minister of Health, Government of Indonesia) 
• Ms. Agneta Karlsson (State Secretary for Health and Social Affairs, Government of Sweden) 
• Mr. Gilbert Houngbo (President, International Fund for Agricultural Development) IFAD

Panel 2: Tools and practices to take the shared message forward 

• Moderator: Ms. Gerda Verburg (UN Assistant Secretary General & Coordinator of the SUN Movement) 
• Dr. Tedros Adhanom (Director-General, World Health Organization) - TBC
• Dr. Steve Waygood (Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Aviva) 
• Ms. Kanni Wignaraja (Director, UN Development Operations Coordination Office)