Committee on World Food Security
Making a difference in food security and nutrition
CFS 50 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.
Statements, speeches and presentations held at CFS 50 are available here.
Agenda item II: Ministerial Segment: Coordinating Policy Responses to the Global Food Crisis - The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
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 | Biography
QU Dongyu, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) | Biography
Alvaro Lario, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) | Biography
David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP) | Biography
Bernard Lehmann, Chairperson, High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) | Biography
Presentation of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
Maximo Torero Cullen, Chief-Economist, FAO | Biography
UN Global Crisis Response Group Updates - David Nabarrao, Strategic Director, Co-lead of the Food workstream of the UN Global Crisis Response Group
Agenda item III: Empowering Women and Girls and Promoting Gender Equality. Update and Discussion on the Preparation of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in the Context of Food Security and Nutrition
Celebration of International Day of Rural Women
Jyotsna Puri, Associate-Vice President, Strategy and Knowledge Department, IFAD | Biography
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 | Biography
Uwintije Goretti, President of “Twaguke Murama” (local cooperative), Rwanda | Biography
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 | Biography
Leonel Josefa Sacko, Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment, African Union
Agenda item IV: CFS Strategic Direction toward 2030
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) | Biography
Update of the Rolling Section of the CFS MYPoW 2020-2023
Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security | Biography
Theme of the 2024 HLPE-FSN Report
Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security | Biography
Agenda item V: Data Collection and Data Analysis Tools
Agenda item VI: Empowering Youth in Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems. Endorsement and Uptake of the CFS Policy Recommendations on Promoting Youth Engagement and Employment in Agriculture and Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition
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 | Biography
Agenda item VII: Boosting Responsible Investment in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems. Global Thematic Event on the CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems
Additional background documents:
Opening and welcome
Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security | Biography
Marcela Villarreal, Director, Partnerships and UN Collaboration, FAO (Moderator) | Biography
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 | Biography
Ambassador Elissa Golberg, Permanent Representative of Canada | Biography
Viktoria de Bourbon de Parme, Food and Agriculture Transformation Lead, World Banchmarking Alliance | Biography
Jeremy Coller, Chairman, Coller Capital | Biography
Moderated panel discussion on the use and application of the CFS-RAI Principles
Silvia Giacoppo, President, Latin American Parliamentary group (PARLATINO) | Biography
Vanida Khumnerdpetch, Director, Bureau of Foreign Agriculture Affairs, Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand | Biography
Inji Doggui Hanini, Executive Director, Agricultural Investment Promotion Agency, Tunisia | Biography
Christian Hofer, State Secretary, Switzerland | Biography
Nadjirou Sall, Secretary General of the Western Africa Peasants’ and Farmers Network (ROPPA) - representatives of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism (CSIPM) | Biography
Deo Temba, Executive Director & Founder, Grande Demam - representative of the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) | Biography
CFS Secretariat's Special Event - Food Systems Transformations: Building long-term resilience to global crises
Additional background documents:
Selected countries for part 2 of the Special Event are: Chile, Germany, Tanzania, Thailand, and Yemen
Gerda Verburg, Coordinator, Scaling up Nutrition
Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security | Biography
Stefanos Fotiou, Director, Office of Sustainable Development Goals at FAO and Director of the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub