Side events on climate change and food security at CFS46

Several side events at next week’s forty-sixth plenary session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) focus specifically on achieving food security in the face of climate change. Climate action in the agriculture sectors must lead towards low-emission, adapted, resilient food production systems and to achieve this action must adopt a holistic, multi-stakeholder approach. See below, this year’s events with a climate change focus that are related to the following themes: nutrition, indigenous food systems, agroecology and region-specific climate models. 

We all have a role to play, join the events to have your say and see the developments unfold! 

Tuesday 15 October 13.00-14.30 

Red Room
SE127 Informed Decision Making on Arab food security within the context of climate change: Monitoring food security in the Arab region and the development and application of region-specific climate datasets, models to assess food security at regional and national levels
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA); Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD); Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD)

Green Room
SE059 Putting food security and nutrition at the heart of climate action. Climate change, food security and nutrition: a key nexus for a sustainable future
FAO; IFAD; WFP; New Zealand

Thursday 17th October 13:00 -14.30

Philippines Room
SE036 Climate finance's role in food security: How can the Green Climate Fund unlock transformation?: What support can GCF and other donors provide to agriculture sector to increased resilience of food security in developing countries
Green Climate Fund

Friday 18 October 13.00-14.30

Green Room
SE123 Naming food: The intrinsic relation between indigenous food systems, traditional knowledge and language diversity
FAO; Indonesia; UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII); Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP); United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Iran Room
SE138 How to support an Agroecological Transition that sustains food security in developing countries? Challenges to scale up efficiently agroecological transition, the role of the public policies and methodologies to assess its impact.
FAO; Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD); Agence Française de Développement( (AFD); France