Fifth Webinar of the IYM Global Webinar Series “Empowering farmers, Indigenous Peoples, women and youths: unlocking the potentials of millets’’

The United Nations General Assembly at its 75th Session in March 2021 declared 2023 the International Year of Millets (IYM 2023). As part of the IYM2023 celebration, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing an “IYM Global Webinar Series” to shed light on the various environmental, social and economic benefits of millets, their rich heritage and their vast potential. 

The global food system faces many complex challenges, including hunger, malnutrition, limited natural resources and a changing climate. A possible solution to tackle those interconnected challenges is to enhance sustainable crop production, resilient value chains and consumer access to affordable and varied diets. Millets, in their diversity, can contribute to this solution as affordable sources of nutrients for healthy diets that can be cultivated in various adverse climates and arid regions with minimal external inputs.

Join this webinar to learn more about how the cultivation and consumption of millets can help empower smallholder farmers, women, Indigenous Peoples and youths by improving their livelihoods, entrepreneurial opportunities and nutritional status while enhancing the resilience of local production systems, especially through increased on-farm diversity. 

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Agenda

Time	Agenda item and presenter
16:00–16:05	Opening remarks and introduction by Ms Makiko Taguchi, Agricultural Officer, Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP), FAO
16:05-16:15	Keynote speech Mr Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
16:15 –16:50	Panel discussion Ms Jacqueline Hughes, Director General, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics   Mr Sayed Azam-Ali, Chief Executive Officer, Crops For the Future  Ms Elizabeth Mpofu, Small-Scale Organic Farmer, African women’s collaborative for healthy food systems Ms Ferosta Basumatary, World President, International Movement of Catholic Agriculture and Rural Youth, member of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism to Committee on World Food Security  Mr Ramesh Sharma, National Convenor, Ekta Parishad
16:50 –17:10	Q&A session
17:10 - 17:15	Closing remarks by Ms Tacko Ndiaye, Senior Officer, Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division (ESP), FAO
	Ms Tacko Ndiaye, Senior Officer, Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division (ESP), FAO will moderate the webinar.

 

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