Committee on World Food Security
Making a difference in food security and nutrition
50th Plenary Session
of the Committee on World Food Security
10-13 October 2022 | FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy
Sessions
CFS 50 featured a full-day ministerial segment on coordinating policy responses to the global food crisis – The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022; endorse newly agreed Policy Recommendations on Promoting Youth Engagement and Employment in Agriculture and Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition; and focused on boosting responsible investment in sustainable agriculture and food systems through a Global Thematic Event on the CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems.
Additionally, the Plenary celebrated the International Day of Rural Women; reviewed the work of CFS and its HLPE-FSN toward 2030; and kickstarted the workstream on data collection and analysis for food security and nutrition.
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Opening Statements
António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General
Csaba Kőrösi, President, United Nations General Assembly- Lachezara Stoeva, President, United Nations Economic and Social Council
Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security
QU Dongyu, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Alvaro Lario, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP)
Bernard Lehmann, Chairperson, High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN)
Presentation of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
Maximo Torero Cullen, Chief-Economist, FAO- UN Global Crisis Response Group Updates - David Nabarrao, Strategic Director, Co-lead of the Food workstream of the UN Global Crisis Response Group
Celebration of International Day of Rural Women
Jyotsna Puri, Associate-Vice President, Strategy and Knowledge Department, IFAD
Luz Haro Guanga, Executive Secretary of the Network of Rural Women of Latin America and the Caribbean (REDLAC) and Principal Member of Network of Municipalities for Gender Equality (RIMIG), Ecuador
Uwintije Goretti, President of “Twaguke Murama” (local cooperative), Rwanda
CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls Empowerment in the Context of Food Security and Nutrition
Sima Sami Iskandar Bahous, Executive Director, UN Women- Leonel Josefa Sacko, Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment, African Union
Critical, Emerging and Enduring Issues for Food Security and Nutrition
Jennifer Clapp, Vice-Chairperson, High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN)
Update of the Rolling Section of the CFS MYPoW 2020-2023
- Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security
Theme of the 2024 HLPE-FSN Report
- Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security
Carlo Cafiero, HLPE-FSN Project Team leader and Senior Statistician, FAO
Claire Melamed, CEO, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD)
Ambassador Pio Wennubst, Rapporteur of the CFS Youth Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) and Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the Rome-based Agencies
Neema Kichiki Lugangira, Member of the Parliament of Tanzania
Additional background documents:
Opening and welcome
- Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security
Marcela Villarreal, Director, Partnerships and UN Collaboration, FAO (Moderator)
Overall Reflections on investments in food systems and agriculture and the importance of using responsible investment to mobilize private and public resources to achieve SDG2
Martien van Nieuwkoop, Global Director, World Bank
Ambassador Elissa Golberg, Permanent Representative of Canada
Viktoria de Bourbon de Parme, Food and Agriculture Transformation Lead, World Banchmarking Alliance
Jeremy Coller, Chairman, Coller Capital
Moderated panel discussion on the use and application of the CFS-RAI Principles
Silvia Giacoppo, President, Latin American Parliamentary group (PARLATINO)
Vanida Khumnerdpetch, Director, Bureau of Foreign Agriculture Affairs, Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand
Inji Doggui Hanini, Executive Director, Agricultural Investment Promotion Agency, Tunisia
Christian Hofer, State Secretary, Switzerland
Nadjirou Sall, Secretary General of the Western Africa Peasants’ and Farmers Network (ROPPA) - representatives of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism (CSIPM)
Deo Temba, Executive Director & Founder, Grande Demam - representative of the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM)
Additional background documents:
Selected countries for part 2 of the Special Event are: Chile, Germany, Tanzania, Thailand, and Yemen
Special Event Participants
- Gerda Verburg, Coordinator, Scaling up Nutrition
- Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security
- Stefanos Fotiou, Director, Office of Sustainable Development Goals at FAO and Director of the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub