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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Agnes Quisumbing

Agnes Quisumbing is a Senior Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. She co-leads a research program that examines how closing the gap between men’s and women’s ownership and control of assets may lead to better development outcomes.

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

SIDE EVENT 5 | From Commitments to Action: The Importance of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines for a Coalition for Action on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems

Hosted by Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

October 12, 2021

  • 6:45 – 8:15 am (America/New_York)
  • 12:45 – 2:15 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 4:15 – 5:45 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in the 49th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). Organized shortly after the United Nations Food Systems Summit, CFS 49 will focus on the 2021 State of Food Security and Nutrition report, uptake of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition, CFS Mutli-Year Programme of Work and other ongoing CFS workstreams and priorities.

This side event will explore how Coalition for Action on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems for All, an outgrowth from UNFSS, can work together with CFS on the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines. A moderated discussion will take place where all stakeholders will have the opportunity to contribute to support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines and related actions in various countries.

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