Committee on World Food Security

Making a difference in food security and nutrition

47th Plenary Session
of the Committee on World Food Security

08 - 11 February 2021 | FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy

Side Events

To enrich and complement the CFS 49 Plenary and to give its partners and other stakeholders an opportunity to highlight their work, CFS will organize 16 virtual side events over the four days – 4 per day, in parallel during the lunch break.

Explore the schedule below and register for side events.

TimeSide Events
13:00-14:15

Objectives:

  1. An understanding about the need to transform agricultural innovation systems to achieve SDGs related to food, climate and the environment. - Best practice approaches to transform agricultural innovation systems, based on experiences of champions
  2. Key evidence gaps related to agroecology, biodiversity and agriculture, end-to-end approaches, and investment flows and gaps, and messages from rapid evidence reviews to address these gaps.
  3. An understanding about making commitments/contributions/pledges to transform agricultural innovation systems aligned to COP26 and the UN Food Systems Summit.
Organizers:
UK CGIAR Thailand FAO
Languages:
English
Location:
Zoom / Virtual

Objectives:

  1. Draw attention to the mutually reinforcing nature of CFS normative instruments and the SSF Guidelines and the benefits of their synergistic implementation to enhance the contribution of small-scale fisheries to food security and nutrition and fulfill their shared common goal of the progressive realization of the right to adequate food.
  2. Equip participants with inspiring practical examples of how the implementation of the CFS instruments and the SSF Guidelines can improve the issues of gender, youth, inequality and data systems for small-scale fisheries in sustainable food systems.
  3. Draw attention to the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA) that will take place in 2022, and explore how it can support the uptake of CFS instruments in the context of small-scale fisheries.
Organizers:
FAO International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Norway University of Amsterdam Worldfish
Languages:
English
Location:
Zoom / Virtual

Objectives:

  1. COVID-19 and school feeding: observations, lessons learned, building back better.
  2. Importance of return to pre-pandemic school feeding levels, relevance of home-grown models and government ownership.
Organizers:
Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE) WFP Centre of Excellence Brazil (WFP CoE Brazil) United States Finland Rwanda WFP
Languages:
English
Location:
Zoom / Virtual
TimeSide Events
13:00-14:15

Objectives:

  1. The Event will better position the ‘repurposing’ agenda, as well as the centering of farmer voices, as strategic foci for policy change discussions at the 2021 U.N. Food Systems Summit, COP 26, and other global events.
  2. The Event will be the first of a series of farmer consultations that will together feed into the United Kingdom‘s broader efforts to raise visibility and momentum of efforts to repurpose public support to agriculture.
  3. Participants will learn how food producers can be best integrated within decision-making processes around agriculture repurposing, ensuring effective, implementable, and inclusive change.
Organizers:
Just Rural Transition World Bank World Farmers Organization
Languages:
English
Location:
Zoom / Virtual

Objectives:

Enhanced capacity to connect key dimensions of the right to food, particularly relevant during and post the COVID-19 crisis, which are usually dealt with separately but have a high potential to contribute significantly to less vulnerable, more inclusive and sustainable food systems by addressing multiple dimensions, actors and technical areas of food security and nutrition.

Organizers:
Friends of the Right to Food Group (20 MCs) FAO IPPC Secretariat Spain Netherlands
Languages:
English FR SP
Location:
Zoom / Virtual

Objectives:

  1. The main lessons learned and needs for policy response to the FSN dimension of Covid-19 crisis.
  2. The role of the CFS in convening members and participants to provide global policy guidance relevant at global, regional and national levels.
  3. Possible pathways ahead for this initiative to be put in place.
Organizers:
Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanisms for relation with the CFS UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate food IPES Food Spain
Languages:
English FR SP
Location:
Zoom / Virtual
TimeSide Events
13:00-14:15

Objectives:

  1. Share information on the implementation of the UNDFF at global and national levels and the impact of COVID-19 on family farmers, including women and youth.
  2. Reaffirm the relevance of the UNDFF as a framework to coordinate policy efforts in synergy with CFS for family farmers affected by COVID-19.
  3. Discuss a common path for a global response to the food crisis accelerated by the pandemic through promotion of adequate public policies on family farming to achieve the SDGs.
Organizers:
Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to FAO, IFAD and WFP Permanent Mission of Switzerland to FAO, IFAD and WFP FAO IFAD World Rural Forum La Via Campesina
Languages:
English
Location:
Zoom / Virtual

Objectives:

  1. Facilitate discussion among stakeholders actively engaged in addressing different dimensions of Food Loss and Waste (FLW) through innovation.
  2. Share progress achieved and recommendations on the way forward to better inform policy and decision-making for transforming food systems.
Organizers:
Sudan FAO Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Programme of the One Planet Network
Languages:
English
Location:
Zoom / Virtual

Objectives:

  1. Promote discussion on the importance of addressing data gaps to support food system transformation and SDG achievement.
  2. Provide informal inputs for the CFS Workstream on Data Collection and Analysis Tools ahead of the formal CFS process.
  3. Strengthen CFS stakeholders‘ support for implementing the workstream that will produce actionable policy recommendations on improving agricultural data.
Organizers:
Indonesia Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Languages:
English
Location:
Zoom / Virtual
TimeSide Events
13:00-14:15

Objectives:

  1. Agreements on how to manifest the CFS governance successes at FSS.
  2. Appropriate mechanisms and institutional structures for adequate monitoring and evaluation.
  3. Uphold the importance of inclusive global food systems governance.
Organizers:
Global Alliance for the Future of Food Agroecology Fund IPES-Food Dominican Republic SDG2 Advocacy Hub
Languages:
English
Location:
Zoom / Virtual

Objectives:

  1. Increase awareness of pathways to better integrate technology and precision farming with conservation and agroecology systems to meet SDGs.
  2. Showcase proven technologies, systems, and practices that farmers deploy to improve food and nutrition security while addressing other SDGs.
  3. Spotlight innovative partnerships involving farmers, business, academic and government partners, NGOs, and civil society in achieving desired outcomes.
Organizers:
Argentina Australia Netherlands United States Solution from the Land Global Farmer Network Global Dairy Platform PSM
Languages:
English
Location:
Zoom / Virtual

Objectives:

  1. Provide evidence-based information on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and their resilience and sustainability.
  2. Outline Indigenous Peoples roadmap to the UN Food Systems Summit.
  3. Provide inputs to the first draft of the White Paper/Whipala Paper on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems.
  4. Discuss expected outcomes of Indigenous Peoples’ participation in the UN Food Systems Summit.
  5. Provide recommendations to enhance Indigenous Peoples’ participation in global debates on sustainable food systems and climate change.
Organizers:
Government of Finland Global Hub on Indigenous Peoples Food Systems UNPFII Asian Indigenous Peoples Pact FAO Rome Group of Friends of Indigenous Peoples IFAD Sámi Parliament
Languages:
English
Location:
Zoom / Virtual