United Nations Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment – side event
This is an official side event to the UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS+2), taking place on Tuesday, 24th July 2023. More information on the UNFSS+2 can be found here.
Organizers
City of Milan, Coalition of Action of Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems for Children and All (HDSFS), Food is Never Waste Coalition, Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments, Resilient Local Food Supply Chain Alliance and the Self Employed Women’s Association.
Background
The transition to sustainable food systems requires many changes. Integrated solutions are needed to respond to multiple challenges, including food insecurity and malnutrition, access to healthy diets, environmental degradation and multiple shocks and stresses. Urbanization is playing an important role in shaping food systems. Cities consume 70% of all food while contributing significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, food waste and environmental degradation. Moreover, the urban poor frequently lack access to healthy diets causing an increase in malnutrition in all its forms including overweight and obesity. Urbanization and particularly the emergence and dynamism of medium and small cities and towns is increasingly linking rural hinterland to metropolitan areas. In this context, agriculture and food systems have the potential to bring employment and off-farm income.
Multisectoral policies and actions are needed at national and local levels to resolve sustainability trade-offs created by urbanization and the way food systems transform currently. New forms of multistakeholder food systems governance are needed.
Objectives
The objectives of the side event are:
- To share success stories on how city, local and national governments can join forces to deliver interconnected solutions for healthy diets, food losses and waste reduction and resilience against shocks and stresses ;
- To share evidence on urbanization and the impact on food systems ;
- To identify innovative multistakeholder food systems governance mechanisms.
Moderator
- Jane Battersby, Senior Researcher, University of Cape Town
Speakers
- Mohamed Sefiani, Mayor of Chefchaouen, Morocco
- Pilar Cancela Rodriguez, Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain
- Geyze Diniz, Pacto Contra a Fome
- Giulia Bartezzaghi, Food Sustainability Lab, Politecnico di Milano
- Tidjani Hassoumi, Director of Niamey Municipality
Registration
The side event is hybrid with in-person participation at the premises of the FAO Headquarters in Rome and it will be broadcasted on the UNFSS+2 virtual campus. Please register here to follow the event online.