31st Session - Hosted by the Government of Zimbabwe, 26-28 October 2020
The FAO Regional Conference for Africa is a forum to discuss current country and regional priorities and pressing issues in the region including the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on food security and nutrition, the urgent need for food systems transformation, and innovations and partnerships to drive progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
Regional Dialogue Area
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Speeches and presentation:
Speeches:
- Opening statement by Abebe Haile-Gabriel, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa at the thirty-first session of the Regional Conference for Africa, ARC31
- Statement by H.E. Ambassador Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture African Union Commission
- Thirty-first Session of the Regional Conference for Africa - Launch of the Regional Outlook on Gender and Agri-food Systems in Africa
- FAO Regional Conference for Africa (ARC) CFS Side Event on "The Role of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) on Food Systems and Nutrition: How Can We Promote Cross-Sector Policy Convergence?"
- Thirty-first Session of the Regional Conference for Africa Opening Statement by Dr QU Dongyu, Director-General
- Food Systems Summit 2021, October 28, 2020
Presentations:
- Building Resilient Food and Agriculture Systems in the Context of Climate Change, Conflicts and Economic Downturns
- COVID-19 and its Impacts on Agrifood Systems, Food Security and Nutrition: Implications and Priorities for the Africa Region
- Initiatives contributing to the Global Action Programme (GAP) for Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) and Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) in Africa Region
- Results and Priorities for FAO in the Africa Region
- The Hand-In-Hand Initiative
- FAO Regional Conference for Africa, 31st Session, Declaration of the private sector
- Declaration by Civil Society Organizations
- Leveraging Innovation and Digitalization for Inclusive Agriculture and Food Systems Transformation in Africa
- Subregional Priorities – Southern Africa
- Agricultural Priorities for Eastern Africa
Media Advisory:
News:
- FAO aims to tap Africa's potential to end hunger (CGTN Interview with FAO, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa, Abebe Haile-Gabriel)
- Director-General QU Dongyu addresses FAO Regional Conference for Africa
- FAO’s Hand-in-Hand initiative can help end hunger and poverty in Africa
- FAO Director-General QU Dongyu’s opinion piece on food security in Africa - 23 October 2020
- Empowering women to leave no one behind
- Namibia: FAO says COVID-19 pandemic has put pressure on Africa's food security
- African countries convene at UN FAO conference to plan way out of hunger crisis
- Regional Conference for Africa asserts private sector has an important role to play
- Somalia: African countries convene at UN FAO conference to plan way out of hunger crisis (26 October)
- South Sudan: African countries to plot way out of hunger crisis (26 October)
- Africa has the potential to end hunger and malnutrition, says FAO Director-General
- African countries commit to accelerate actions towards food security
