Events

CFS High-Level Virtual Events 13-15 October 2020 IMPORTANT! Registrations to the CFS High-Level events of 13-15 October are closing on October 8th.  In order to register please click here and follow the instructions. You will receive a confirmation email with the details to access the event. When putting the name of your organisation while registering please write: Name of your organisation /CSM CFS High Level Events background documents CFS Chair’s Summary  Due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CFS Bureau decided to postpone the 47th CFS Plenary Session to 8-12 of February 2021. Nevertheless, it was agreed to make use of the dates originally booked for the plenary session to hold instead a three-days CFS high-level virtual events from 13 to 15 of October. Please find here the agenda of the virtual sessions. These three days do not foresee any policy decision-making moment, but will foster the policy dialogue among CFS members and participants across key policy issues that have been on the agenda of the Committee of this year. Such issues include the findings of the latest HLPE Report “Food Security and nutrition: building a global narrative towards 2030”, which also contains relevant policy recommendations towards a possible CFS policy response to Covid and call for a radical transformation of current food systems, the findings of the SOFI Report 2020, as well as a debate on the current CFS policy negotiations of the Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition and Policy Recommendations on Agroecological and other innovative approaches, and their link and contribution to the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit. On 15 of October, the CFS is also expected to honor, as it has done in past years, the UN International Day of Rural Women in its opening session by having the voice of a rural woman addressing the virtual event. As you can see ministerial presence is confirmed in the panel discussions throughout the three days, as well as CSM interventions. As a result of these three days the CFS Chair will draft, in consultation with the CFS Bureau members, a Summary of the events. It is still not clear if this summary will also be included as part of the background documents that will inform CFS policy decisions in February. Moreover, a limited number of partners’ events will be also taking place virtually during these three days, prior and after the main events. Find the timetable here. The CSM

14 October 2019 13:00 – 14:30 Philippines Room (Building C Room 277) – Here all informations! Fighting hunger between rights and inequalities: Too many left behind! How can human rights be used to reduce inequalities and overcome discrimination for achieving food security and nutrition for all? CSM Global Governance Working Group! 15 October 2019 08:30 – 10:00 Iraq Room (Building A Room 235) Here all Informations! Food Systems & Nutrition Guidelines: Proposed Pathways by the Private Sector and Civil Society:  Perspectives and proposals by civil society and the private sector on how to reshape food systems to ensure sustainable and healthy diets (Joint CSM and PSM Side Event) CSM Nutrition and Food Systems Working Group   15 October 2019 18:00 – 19:30 Iraq Room (Building A Room 235) Here all informations! Re-thinking and Re-shaping Food Systems through Agroecology:  CFS policy convergence on Agroecology and Food Systems & Nutrition as the key opportunity to chart the transition to a truly sustainable future  CSM Agroecology and CSM Nutrition and Food Systems Working Group   17 October 2019 08:30 – 10:00 Iran Room (Building B Room 016) – Here all informations! The impact of extractivism on women’s right to food and the struggle for a just transition: Addressing root causes of violence against women and the way ahead for concrete solutions towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda  CSM Women Working Group   18 October 2019 08:30 – 10:00 Iraq Room (Building A Room 235) – Here all informations!  The future of food and the visions of the youth: “We don’t inherit land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children” (Native American Saying) CSM Youth Working Group  

CSM Side Event @ CFS 46 Fighting Hunger between rights and inequalities. Too many left behind Monday, 14 October 13.00-14:30h, Philippines Room Download the flyer! SUMMARY OF THE SIDE EVENT The key question of this Side Event is fundamental for the CFS: How can human rights be used to reduce inequalities and overcome discrimination for achieving food security and nutrition for all? The CFS Vision points to the elimination of hunger and malnutrition and the progressive realization of the right to adequate food. All CFS policy guidelines and recommendations explicitly aim to contribute to this vision. Panelists: Ms. Stefania Tripodi, Human Rights and Economic and Social Issues Section, Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights Mr. Agung Hendriadi, Head of Food Security Agency, Indonesia Ms. Gabriel Ferrero, Director General for Sustainable Development Cooperation Policies, Spain Mr. Shantanu Mathur, Lead Adviser Global Engagement and Partnerships, IFAD Ms. Elisabeth Mpofu, International Coordinator, La Via Campesina In this context, the Side Event will address particularly the challenge of inequalities and how to reduce inequalities for achieving food security and nutrition. Key questions of the event will be: – Why is reducing inequalities essential for advancing the right to adequate food? – What are the lessons learned from experiences on the local, national and global levels, especially from the smallholder, women and youth perspectives? – How can peasants’ rights and inequalities be addressed within the UN Decade of Family Farming?