64 Agriculture Ministers adopted an ambitious final communiqué at the 15th Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Conference, part of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA). The GFFA 2023 addressed the issue of: “Food Systems Transformation: A Worldwide Response to Multiple Crises”.
High Level Panels
Redirecting Agriculture Policies and Support to Address Climate Change
This panel revisited GFFA 2021 that focused on “How to Feed the World in Times of Pandemics and Climate Change?” The World Bank and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK hosted this panel. High-level participants discussed what has happened since GFFA 2021, where progress has been made and which measures should be taken.
- Keynote speaker (video message) Cem Özdemir Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture Panel
- HE Mariam bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri Minister Climate Change and Environment, United Arab Emirates
- Trudy Harrison Minister for Natural Environment and Land Use, United Kingdom Government
- Hon Sam Dalitso Kawale Minister of Agriculture, Malawi
- Dr. Md. Abdur Razzaque Minister of Agriculture for People’s Republic of Bangladesh
- Moderation Juergen Voegele Vice President, Sustainable Development, Worldbank
Agriculture in the “New Normal”: Future-proofing food systems for a changing world
The EU Commission’s High Level Panel focused on creating crisis-proof and climate-friendly food systems which contribute to preserving biodiversity. We consider these topics to be strongly interlinked, as there is an urgent need to break down policy silos and think in terms of sustainability and resilience across the board. As the host of the Panel, the EU promotes the need for a holistic approach, which balances the needs of immediate urgencies and long-term commitments.
The Panel brought together selected Agriculture Ministers and Heads of IOs to review what is being done in three thematic blocks of discussion. Starting with (1) current and future measures to improve the resilience of agri-food supply chains to sudden systemic shocks, participants will then be invited to expand to (2) the long-term challenge of mitigating and adapting to climate change, and finally also tackle the issue of (3) agriculture’s role in preserving the Earth’s ecosystems and biodiversity.- Janusz Wojciechowski European Commissioner for Agriculture
- Keynote Speaker Johan Swinnen Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute
- Frida Krifca Minister of Agriculture, Albania
- Murray Watt Minister of Agriculture, Australia
- Jean-Marie Paugam Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization
- Moderation Peter Baader Retired Senior Expert, European Commission
– Highlight the imperative need for Food Systems Transformation in the wake of the current unpredictable global food security landscape and the key role of CFS as a multi-stakeholder governance platform, and UN Nutrition as an inter-agency coordination mechanism, in promoting collaboration between all relevant actors and building synergies to help advance food system transformation;
– Discuss how efforts to implement the CFS Voluntary Guidelines can help countries achieve their evolving national food security and nutrition plans and realize 2030 Agenda – especially SDG-2 on hunger and nutrition;
– Promote inclusive governance, policy coherence and increased coordination among sectors and actors to ensure better human and planetary health, including by further use of CFS and other relevant policy guidance to boost accelerated policy actions – by all relevant stakeholders – at global, regional, national, and local levels in support of food systems transformation and to realize the 2030 Agenda.
- Keynote Speaker Gabriel Ferrero Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
- Her Excellency Mariam Almheiri Minister of Climate Change and Environment, United Arab Emirates Esteban
- Valenzuela Van Treek Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Chile
- Kobenan Kouassi Adjoumani Minister of State, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Côte d'Ivoire
- Maria Neira Assistant Director-General for Universal Health Coverage/Healthier Populations ad interim and Director of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization (WHO)
- Moderation Stineke Oenema Executive Secretary, UN Nutrition
Expert panels
- Panel 1: GFFA Berlin e.V.
- Panel 2: FAO
- Panel 3: WFO/AHA
- Panel 4: Forum UE/INKOTA et al.
- Panel 5: WBAE
- Panel 6: FAO/WHO
- Panel 7: TMG Research et al.
- Panel 8: World Bank Group
- Panel 9: Australian Mission to the European Union
- Panel 10: WFP
- Panel 11: Crop Trust
- Panel 12: FAO
- Panel 13: WWF
- Panel 14: ZALF et al.
Linking indigenous knowledge with transformation processes of sustainable food systems – concepts and examples
The expert panel built on debates that were held during a side event of the UN FSS 2021. The expert panel aims to give substance to the starting points that have been developed for linking indigenous knowledge to the sustainable transformation of food systems at all levels of action (see “Nature Communications Earth&Environment“).Keynote Speaker
Panel Guests
Moderation
- Panel 15: WOAH
- Panel 16: BLE
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