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Ahead of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), Cairns Group Farm Leaders (the 'Group') from Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile,...

The United Nations Food Systems Forum (UNFSS): where corporations continue to define our food systems and control our diets This post is also available in: Italian The Pre-Summit of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) taking place in Rome, as a preparative stage to the New York September Summit, is, as expected, going in the wrong direction. As many civil society members, as well as past and current Rapporteurs on the Right to Food, have denounced, this summit is yet another instrument to reinforce corporate control over food and agriculture, while attempting to restrain civil soc...

In this Pre-Summit Main Programme Session on ‘Steering the UN Food System Summit towards full integration of blue foods for health, wealth & ecological recovery,’ hosted under the leadership of the Food System Summit Secretariat, experts working across different aspects of global food systems will convene to share and discuss game-changing solutions for improving food and nutrition security, health and income opportunities with foods from below water. WorldFish’s Global Lead in Nutrition and Public Health, Shakuntala Thilsted, will join the expert panel, drawing on her expertise as Vice...

Virtual A UN Food System Pre-Summit Affiliated Session exploring solutions for amplifying the role and contributions of small-scale aquatic food producers for better livelihood outcomes in line with the Summit's Action Track 4. Date: Tuesday, 27 July 2021 Time: 19:30-20:20 (CEST) Aquatic food related livelihoods underpin the foundation of sustainable development and achievement of the goals set out in the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 in leaving no one behind. However, aquatic foods are one of the most threatened food sectors; with ecosystems experiencing severe decline, and aquati...

FIJI LAUNCHES NATIONAL FOOD SYSTEMS DIALOGUE 19/07/2021 Suva, Fiji - Fiji will hold its virtual National Food Systems Dialogue from 21-23 July, 2021 as it continues national preparations for the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) being convened by UN Secretary-General Antoìnio Guterres in September 2021.    Fiji’s President HE Major-General (Ret’d), Jioji Konousi Konrote has been appointed Eminent Champion of the UNFSS by UN Secretary-General Guterres.    The Fiji National Food Systems Dialogue aims to transform food systems to be healthier, safer, more sustainable, more effi...