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Representing the Business Sector at the UN Committee on World Food Security

The UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will be holding its 46th annual session October 14-18, 2019 at the FAO in Rome. This year’s CFS is all the more important as the SDG Summit clearly showed last fall the shortfalls of commitments towards achieving the SDGs. SDG2 is central to almost all SDGs, yet the number of hungry and malnourished has been increasing steadily for the past three years to raise the unbelievable number of 820 million hungry people. Achieving SDG2 is feasible in our lifetime. We must stand united in the fight towards Zero Hunger and the CFS is the most prominent forum bringing together all actors who have the ability to find solutions for food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture. Emerging is the Secretariat of the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) and will be coordinating the business delegation to CFS, which will bring over 200 individuals from the entire agri-food value chain. We will also be hosting four side-events. If you are in Rome for CFS, you are kindly invited to attend them:

Join the CFS 46 SIDE EVENTS

The Future of Farming – Innovation and Agroecology: A Path to Sustainability

Monday, October 14 – 18:00 to 19:30
Green Room, FAO

 

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Food Systems & Nutrition Guidelines: Proposed Pathways by the Private Sector and Civil Society

Tuesday, October 15 – 8:30 to 10:00
Iraq, FAO

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Transforming Our Food System: Scaling Up Action for Improved Nutrition

Tuesday, October 15 – 13:00 to 14:30
Iraq Room, FAO

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Youth for World Food Day: Feeding the World by Investing in the Future

Tuesday, October 15 – 18:00 to 19:30
Green Room, FAO

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Partnering for Change: Multistakeholder Partnerships and CFS

Thursday, October 17 – 18:00 to 19:30
Mexico Room, FAO

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Robynne Anderson

Robynne has extensive experience in the agriculture and food sector, working throughout the value chain – from basic inputs to farmers in the field to the grocery store shelf. She works internationally in the sector, including speaking at the United Nations on agriculture and food issues, and representing the International Agri-Food Network at the UN.Throughout her career she has worked with farm organisations like the Prairie Oat Growers Association, the National Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi and the Himalayan Farmers Association, as well as global groups, to further the voice of agriculture in the food debate. She has also worked with Fortune 500 companies growing worldwide businesses to assist them with issues management and strategy decisions.

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