CGIAR Events at EAT Forum

12-13 June 2019. Stockholm, Sweden. EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2019.

11 June
Side Session: Putting biodiversity back into food: Managing risks in food systems using the Agrobiodiversity Index

• Richard China, Director, Strategic Partnerships and External Engagement, Bioversity International
• Fabrice DeClerck, Senior Scientist, Bioversity International

Blue Food Assessment (BFA) Workshop – Putting aquatic production at the heart of global food systems Micheal Philips, Director, Aquaculture and Fisheries Science, WorldFish
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Program Leader, Value Chains and Nutrition, WorldFish

12 June

• Wake Up, Smell the Coffee! Breakfast with Cracking (not Scrambled) Solutions for Feeding 
• Izabella Koziell, Program Director, CGIAR Research Program on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE)
• Fabrice DeClerck, Senior Scientist, Bioversity International
• Ann Tutwiler, WLE Independent Steering Committee (ISC) Chair, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Board Member
• Adam Hunt, Head of Communications, WLE

13 June
Setting a new global agricultural innovation agenda: consultation on the CGIAR 2030 plan. 

• Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Executive Director, CGIAR System Organization
• André Zandstra, Director of Funder and External Relations, CGIAR System Organization

11:40am – 12:20pm Plenary: The race to save each other: Biodiversity, humans and food 

• Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General, Bioversity International

14 June
Side Session: Road testing healthy diets: Perspectives from the Global South

• Jan Low, Principal Scientist, International Potato Center (CIP) and 2016 World Food Prize recipient
• Ekin Birol, Director of Impact and Strategy, Harvest Plus
• Silvia Alonso, Senior Scientist, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
• Namukolo Covic, Research Coordinator, Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, International Food and Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Jean Balié, Agri-food Policy Platform Leader, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
• Natalia Palacios, Senior Scientist, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
• Session moderated by Lindiwe Sibanda, ex Board of Trustees Member of ILRIand CIMMYT, CEO, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)