Can an agrifood systems approach help achieve healthy diets, reduce noncommunicable diseases, and improve climate resilience in SIDS?
Hybrid Event, 31/10/2023
Tuesday, 31 October 2023. 16:00 - 17:30 (CET) I 10:00-11:30 (EST) I 02:00-03:30 (FJT)
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Join us for a discussion on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Food security and nutrition are crucial to SDG2 - Zero Hunger, and are connected to other SDGs such as poverty eradication, health, responsible consumption, and sustainability. SIDS face challenges including structural and environmental vulnerabilities, unhealthy diets, and food insecurity, resulting in high rates of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes and obesity. Urgent action is necessary, especially with climate change worsening these issues. This event is part of the SIDS Solutions Dialogue series by FAO Liaison Offices in Brussels, Geneva, and New York, along with the FAO office of SIDS, LDCs, and LLDCs, and the FAO Nutrition Dialogue Series by FAO Geneva and the FAO's Food and Nutrition Division. It is a crucial step towards the 4th UN SIDS Conference in Antigua and Barbuda in May 2024.
SPEAKERS
Mr Ignacio Ybanez, Special Envoy for SIDS, European External Action Service (EEAS)
Ms Cristelle Pratt, Assistant Secretary-General, Environment and Climate Action Department, OACPS
Ms Nella Pepe Tavita-Levy, Chair of the Alliance of the Small Islands States (AOSIS) and Ambassador of the Independent State of Samoa to the Government of Switzerland (TBC)
Ms Nancy Aburto, Deputy Director, Food and Nutrition Division, FAO
Ms. Maude Veyret-Picot, Regional Lead for Africa and the Near East, OCB-GEF Coordination Unit, FAO
Mr. Shaun Baugh, Programme Manager - Agricultural & Agro-Industrial Development, CARICOM Secretariat
H.E. Mr. Walton Alfonso Webson, Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations, New York (pre-recorded remarks)
H.E. Ambassador José Filomeno de Carvalho, Ambassador of Cabo Verde to the EU and Chair of the OACPS SIDS Forum
Mr Mbuli Charles Boliko, SIDS Coordinator for Africa (TBC)
Ms Angelica Jacome Daza, Director, Office of SIDS, LDCs and LLDCs, FAO