Setting the Stage for CFS 41

10.30 - 11.00

Agenda Item III SOFI 2014

Presentation by Pietro Gennari, Director, FAO Statistics Division and Chief Statistician

11:00-14:00

Round Tables: Food losses and waste in the context of sustainable food systems (IV)

See Session Documents for background information

Chair: Zerubabel Mijumbi Nyiira, Minister of State for Agriculture, Entebbe, Uganda
Rapporteur: Khaled El Taweel, Alternate Permanent  Representative, Egypt
HLPE Panelist: Vishweshwaraiah Prakash, Project Team Leader of the HLPE Report
Second Panelist: Jaime Rolando Ochoa Schaad, Head of the Food Storage Unit in the Guatemalan Ministry of Agriculture, Guatemala.

15:00-18:00

The role of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture for food security and nutrition (IV)

Chair: Fábio Hazin, Federal and Rural University of Pernambuco, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Brazil
Rapporteur: Johan Williams, Chair of Committee on Fisheries (COFI), FAO
HLPE Panelist: C. Béné, Project Team Leader of the HLPE Report
Second Panelist:  Editrudith Lukanga, Executive Director - EMEDO,  Co President WFF, Mwanza, Tanzania

9:30-13:30

Coordination and Linkages with CFS

CFS 2014/41/6 Coordination & Linkages with CFS - Session Guidelines and Background Information

Other languages in Session Documents

Facilitator:  Gerda Verburg, CFS Chair

Global: Food Security and Nutrition in the Post 2015 framewor

• Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary General, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• Klaus Rudischhauser, Deputy Director-General, Sectoral and Thematic Directorates, EU
• Louise Kantrow, Global Business Alliance; Permanent Representative to the UN for the ICC
• Per Pinstrup-Anderson,Chair of the High Level Panel of Experts Steering Committee
• Stineke Oenema, Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation, representing CSM

Supporting Documents: Outcome Document - Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

Regional: CAADP/NEPAD’s efforts to mainstream nutrition in agriculture

• Haladou Salha, Senior Technical Adviser, NEPAD
• Karim Mtambo, Director, National Food Security in the Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives, United Republic of Tanzania
• Djibo Bagna, Pan African Farmer’s Forum, representing CSM
• Arne Cartridge, CEO Grow Africa

14:30-17:30

National Case studies and lessons learned: Right to Food (Va) 

• India: Deepak Kumar, Joint Secretary, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
• El Salvador: Excmo. Sr. Don Orestes Fredesman Ortéz Andrade, Ministro de Agricultura y Ganadería
• Jordan: Radi Al Tarawneh, Secretary General of Ministry of Agriculture

Right to Food Ten Year Perspective (Vb) 

Supporting Documents

Available in the languages indicated

Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security

English | Spanish | French | Arabic | Chinese | Russian

The right to food: Past commitment, current obligation, further action for the future. A Ten-Year Retrospective on the Right to Food Guidelines by the FAO Right to Food Team

English | French | Spanish

Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2014  - Ten Years of the Right to Food Guidelines: Gains, Concerns and Struggles

English | French | Spanish

CSO Synthesis Paper on the 10 Years Right to Adequate Food Guidelines

English | French | Spanish

14.30 - 17.30

A CFS, World Food Day, International Year of Family Farming event: Innovation in family farming: Towards ensuring food security and nutrition

  CFS 2014/41/INF/7 Rev. 2 Background Information. Other languages available in Session Documents.

Supporting documents

• State of Food and Agriculture 2014 - Innovation in Family Farming
• Ministerial Declaration of Paris 25 Feb 2014  English | French
• CFS Policy Recommendations:  Investing in Smallholder Agriculture for Food Security and Nutrition
• CFS HLPE Report on Investing in Smallholder Agriculture for Food Security and Nutrition
  

The Panel

Moderator: Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation

• Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, UN Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development
• Dacian Cioloş, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development
• Segfredo Serrano, Undersecretary for Policy and Planning, Department Of Agriculture, Philippines
• Ibrahima Coulibaly, Vice-President of the Network of Farmers' and Agricultural Producers' Organisations of West Africa (ROPPA); Ambassador of FAO for the International Year on Family Farming
• Santiago Del Solar Dorrego, Asociación Argentina de Consorcios Regionales de Experimentación Agrícola (AACREA)