Monday 15 October

The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2018 : Migration, Agriculture and Rural Development - Panel Discussion

	Moderator: Kostas G. Stamoulis, Assistant Director-General of the Economic and Social Development Department at FAO
	Presenter: Andrea Cattaneo, Senior Economist, FAO
	SOFA 2018 Presentation
The panelists:
	Hlamalani Ngwenya, International Development Consultant and Lecturer at the University of Free State, South Africa
	Nadjirou Sall, Secretary General of ROPPA (Network of farmers and producers of West Africa)
	Paola Alvarez, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
	Bruno Losch, Professor, Centre de cooperation international en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World SOFI) 2018 - Panel Discussion

	Moderator: Joyce Kanyangwa Luma, Director, Office of the Deputy Executive Director, World Food Programme
The panelists:
	John Ingram, Professor, Oxford University, London
	Tui Shortland, Director, Te Kopu, Pacific Indigenous & Local Knowledge Centre of Distinction, New Zealand
	Bruce Hewitson, Director of Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town, South Africa
	Thato Moagi, Director, Legae La Banareng Farms, South Africa

Wednesday 17 October

Evaluation Presentation

Thursday 18 October - Global Thematic Event on the Right to Food Guidelines

• Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Food in the Context of National Food Security
• Compilation of experiences and good practices in the use and application of the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Food in the Context of National Food Security
• Civil Society Report on the use and implementation of the Right to Food Guidelines English | French | Spanish
• Presentation: Chair of Open Ended Working Group on Monitoring
• Presentation: Moderator

Keynotes and the panel

	Keynote Speaker: Kostas G. Stamoulis, Assistant Director-General of the Economic and Social Development Department at FAO
	Keynote Speaker: Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
	Keynote Speaker: Livia Pomodoro, be UNESCO Chair on the Right to Food and President of Milan Center for Food Law and Policy
	Moderator: Michael Windfuhr, Deputy Director, German Institute for Human Rights
The panelists:
	Badrul Arefin, Director General, Food Planning and Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Food, Bangladesh
	Issiaka Bictogo, Executive Secretary of the Food Security and National Council, Burkina Faso
	Elisa María Cadena Gaona, Deputy Director of Nutritional Health, Food and Beverage, Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Colombia
	Peter Schmidt, President of the European Economic and Social Committee’s Sustainable Development Observatory
	Ramona Duminicioiu, Member of the CSM Coordination Committee and Coordinator of the CSM Working Group on Monitoring

Thursday 18 October - Multistakeholder Partnerships to Finance and Improve Food Security and Nutrition

Presentation

Friday 19 October - Lesson Sharing (Red Room)

Food Systems and Nutrition

	Moderator: Anna Lartey, Director of Nutrition and Food Systems Division, FAO
	Keynote: Stineke Oenema, Coordinator, United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition
The panelists:
	Zhang Zhiqiang, Deputy Director-General, Department of Food Safety Standards & Monitoring & Evaluation), National Health Commission, China
	Kora Perlzweig, Head of Division, Strategy, Coordination and Introduction of Digital Technologies, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Germany
	Cindy Brown, President, Chippewa Valley Bean Co Inc
	Marisa Macari, Coordinator of Nutritional Health Research, El Poder de Consumidor

CFS and the Agenda 2030

	Moderator: Amir Abdulla, Deputy Executive Director, WFP
The panel
	Patricia Rodriguez, Alternate Permanent Representative of the UN Agencies, Dominican Republic
	Gabriel Ferrero, Director General for Sustainable Development Policies at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain
	Sid Ahmed M. Alamain Hamid Alamain, First Secretary, Alternate Permanent Representative of the UN Agencies, Sudan