Committee on World Food Security
Making a difference in food security and nutrition
Programme
Moderator
Chris Hegadorn, CFS Secretary
Opening Remarks
Rodger Voorhies, President of Global Growth & Opportunity Division, BMGF (speech)
Maximo Torero, ES-ADG, FAO
Panel
El Iza Mohamedou, Program Manager of 50 X 2030 Initiative, World Bank (speech)
Jenna Slotin, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (speech)
Sesheeni Joud Selvataram, Action Aid (speech)
Closing Remarks
Thanawat Tiensin, Chairperson, CFS
Event Flyer
Bridging the Data Divide: Reaching Zero Hunger Requires Better Agricultural Statistics
10 February 2020, 14:00 - 15:15
FAO HQs, Sheikh Zayed Centre
Rome, Italy
Organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the open symposium will discuss the data gap in agriculture, aiming to bolster global efforts to measure progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG-2. The discussion will highlight work already underway on bridging the data gap, and will contribute to future discussions of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) for its approved Programme of Work item on data systems, including a forthcoming report to be prepared by the CFS High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE).