Climate Action and Investments for Resilient Food Systems– Policy, Institutional, and Technological Insights from Asia and the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Information & Registration

Co-organized by IFPRI, Washington DC and Joint Application: Led by IFPRI and jointly with the USAID Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI), Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and Climate Resilient Agriculture Network in Asia (ASEAN-CRN)

Event Description:

Sustainable transformation of food systems in the global south is thwarted by frequent climate-related shocks. Lack of integration of food security and climate action goals and related policy, institutional, and technological bottlenecks call for co-financing strategies and innovations. This side event will bring together investors, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to promote south-south cross learning on achieving climate resilient food systems goals. The side event will identify the key drivers of climate action that help vulnerable food systems recover from shocks, it will also highlight the opportunities to strengthen to the policy, institutional and technological innovation sat the national and regional levels that can expedite the process for improving resilience of vulnerable food systems.

Nov. 16, 2023

Location: Persada Johor International Convention Centre, located in Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Side Event Room: Tanjung Puteri 304

12:00- 13:00

Johor, Malaysia (GMT+8)

Sikandra Kurdi, Research Fellow and Country Program Leader, Egypt, IFPRI

Alaa Mazloum, Program Manager, IFPRI

Track 4: Societies, Health, Livelihoods, and Economies

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Oct. 10, 2023

Zone 5.8

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

9:00 – 10:00am GMT+3

Purnima Menon, Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy, CGIAR and IFPRI

2023 SDG Summit Information

Organized by United Nations

Danielle Resnick, Non-Resident Fellow, IFPRI

A Quest to Repurpose Agricultural Support: Benefits & Trade-Offs of Reforming Food System Policies to Achieve an Inclusive, Health-enhancing, and Environmentally Sustainable Future Information 

Organized by Food System Economics Commission (FSEC), Columbia Climate School, and IFPRI

Wei Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Bringing Rio Conventions to Life Through Women’s Leadership in Climate and Biodiversity Agendas Information 

Side Event Organized by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International

Food+ Forum @ UNGA78 Information

Rob Vos, Director, Markets, Trade and Institutions (MTI), IFPRI

Food Loss & Waste: The Great Untapped Solution Information

Organized by Champions 12.3

Purnima Menon, Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy, CGIAR and IFPRI

Channing Arndt, Senior Director, Transformation Strategies, CGIAR and IFPRI

IFPRI-Rockefeller Foundation Consultative Meeting (Invitation Only)

Organized by IFPRI and Rockefeller Foundation