Sustainable Food Systems: Mainstreaming Natural Resource Management

24 May 2023. 15:30 – 17:00 (CEST) Sustainable Food Systems: Mainstreaming Natural Resource Management

Crafting sustainable food systems (SFS) that nourish people and planet is THE imperative of our time. Agriculture and food systems are essential to human survival and are severely threatened by climate change, natural resource degradation, and loss of biological diversity. 

Concurrently, agricultural extensification and unsustainable farming practices accelerate climate change and threaten the ecosystems and many of the natural resources upon which food security depends. Every aspect of these linked problems involves management of natural resources. 

Sound NRM, mainstreamed and monitored from farm plot to landscape scale, is central to addressing these challenges and meeting USAID’s ambitious food security and climate objectives.

• Dr Robert Nasi is the Chief Operating Officer of CIFOR-ICRAF
  
• Alison Macalady, Water and Marine Team Lead, Regional Office of Environment and Sustainable Growth (RESG) USAID 
• Selena Ahmed, Global Director, Periodic Table of Food Initiative, American Heart Association 
• Moffatt Ngugi, Natural Resources Team Leader, Resilient Econ Growth Office USAID Emily Weeks Senior Policy Advisor Bureau of Resilience and Food Security, USAID