14 December 2022. The Food Day at Rio Convention Pavilion was a full day of events, discussion and showcasing of solutions at UNCBD COP15.
By focusing on transforming food systems to reverse biodiversity loss and achieve food security and nutrition for all, this day developed stronger plans, actions for implementation to achieve the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) under the Convention on Biological Diversity. It also explored cross-cutting policy responses spanning multiple global agreements.
Programme and recording
Transforming food systems to reverse biodiversity loss – Building nexus between Biodiversity-Climate-Land-Food Systems
The opening session of FOOD DAY at the Rio Convention pavilion set the scene on the importance of transferring food systems to reverse biodiversity loss, halt climate change and provide enough healthy and nutritious food for all. Highlevel speakers will explain why food systems need to be included in the new GBF and indicate ways to integrate food systems in the overall new Global Biodiversity Framework.
- Moderation: Joao Campari, WWF
- First Nation (tbc)
- Marco Lambertini, WWF
- David Cooper, UNCBD
- Maria Helena Semedo, FAO
- Doreen Robinson, UNEP
- Juan Lucas Restrepo, CGIAR/Alliance
- Heike Henn, Government Germany
- Natasha Kim, Government Canada
- Angela Churie-Kallhauge, Environmental Defense Fund
- Cristian Samper, Bezos Earth Fund
- Pavan Sukhdev
Role of Grasslands, Savannahs and Rangelands” (Target 2, Target 11)
A discussion on the vital importance of our most important environmental asset: Soil. The session discussed how to increase soil health and biodiversity, increase carbon storage, restore degraded lands and with them biodiversity and highlight the importance of the often overlooked grassland, rangeland and savannah ecosystems.
- Moderation: Melissa Ho, WWF
- Nigel Dudley, Equilibrium Research
- Monica Kobayashi, UNCBD
- Sasha Alexander, UNCCD
- Maria Jose Villanueva, WWF
- Carlo Fadda, CGIAR/Alliance
- Andy Jarvis, Bezos Earth Fund
- Ian Dunn, Plantlife
TRANSFORMING AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL FOOD SYSTEMS TOGETHER IN THE GBF & BEYOND
The way we produce our food on land and in the water is driving biodiversity loss. Agriculture threatens 86% of species at risk of extinction, and fishing is the largest driver of biodiversity loss in marine ecosystems. This crisis will only be solved if food systems are profoundly transformed. This session focused on opportunities to support resilient, agroecological and biodiversity-rich food systems from land to sea through the new Global Biodiversity Framework.
- Moderation: Lauren Baker, GA
- Georgina Catacora-Vargas (Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA)
- Tom Grasso, Environmental Defense Fund
- Mariann Bassey, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), Nigeria
- Monique Barreto Galvao, Fish Forever VP Brazil
- Janie Rioux, IFAD
Indigenous and local women as stewards of land and food sovereignty
While Indigenous and local women are the stewards of land and biodiversity they are also paying the highest costs of climate change and biodiversity loss, and their tenure rights are highly fragile.
- Moderation: David Betge, TMG
- Shruti Ajit, Women4Biodiversity
- Nadine Azzu, IFAD
- Marlene Elias, CGIAR/Alliance
- Milka Chepkorir, ICCA Consortium
- Cristiane Julião, Global Alliance of territorial communities
- Sivaja Nair, ICSF
How to implement food-related targets of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
This session highlighted successful practices from around the world that use food systems as a pathway to support countries in meeting food-related targets of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
- Stefan Schmitz, Croptrust
- Cristina Eghenter, WWF
- Carlo Fadda, CGIAR/Alliance
- Marieta Sakalian, UNEP
- Juan Lucas Restrepo, CGIAR/Alliance
Scaling demand side actions to spur a radical transformation of our food system
The consumer has the most power to affect dietary shifts and reductions in food loss and waste, both of which are necessary global enablers to allow widespread adoption of nature-positive farming without increasing the pressure to convert natural land. This side event will explore the tremendous Power of the Consumer and the enabling conditions necessary to radically scale this power.
- Moderation: Brent Loken – WWF
- Geneviève Parent - Laval University
- Lasse Bruun - UN Foundation
- Philip Loring - Arrell Food Institute
- Akanksha Khatri - WEF
- Diane Holdorf - WBCSD
Aligning agricultural subsidies with nature and biodiversity goals: Shifting the trillions towards a nature positive economy
Across sectors the world is spending at least $1.8 trillion a year on subsidies that drive the destruction of ecosystems. The panel brougth together experts from the world of finance and investment, academic, civil society groups and youth to discuss how we can drive change to repurpose agricultural subsidies to protect the ecosystems we rely on for food, livelihoods and for our economy.
- Moderator: Helena Wright, FAIRR
- Tony Juniper, Natural England
- David Bennell, TIFS
- Alexander Burr, Legal and General Investment Management
- Eliane Ubalijoro, Sustainability in the Digital Age
- Doreen Robinson, UNEP
- Joao Campari, WWF
From Ambition to Action: Scaling nature positive food systems by 2030
This session deep-dived into the role of agri-food companies in scaling nature-positive food systems through the implementation of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. D
- Moderation: Diane Holdorf, WBCSD
- Brian Kernohan, Manulife
- Fran Price, WWF
- Anke Kwast, Yara
- Niki King, Unilever
- Farmer representative
- Lord Benyon, Minister for Biosecurity, Marine and Rural Affairs United Kingdom
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