Independent dialogue UNFFS21: Multi-stakeholder platforms for sustainable food systems
Multi-stakeholder platforms are a recognized “game-changing solution” to achieve sustainable food systems, cutting across the 5 action tracks defined for the UN FSS 2021. The internationally recognized experience and expertise built for decades between Dutch and international partners on this topic could add value to the different UN FSS 2021 related ongoing processes.
Event details
- Date
- 18 May 2021
- Organizer
- Netherlands Food Partnership, Rabobank, Wageningen University & Research, VNO-NCW, Oxfam Novib, Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Curator : Olav Kjørven
- Location
- The Hague | Online dialogue
Scalable game-changing solutions from Dutch expertise and experience
The aim of this session is to showcase examples, share practical recommendations, and discuss scaling up of Multi-stakeholder platforms for sustainable food systems based on lessons learned from Dutch multi-stakeholder collaboration and its transformational capacity to contributing to systemic change to reach SDG2.
Keynote speakers David Nabarro (UN), Gerda Verburg (SUN), Joji Carino (IPES-Food) and Kirsten Konst (Rabobank) will set the scene for the discussions. Experts from the public and private sector, civil society and academia will have a dialogue on examples from various sectors and continents. Based on lessons and recommendations, they will discuss opportunities for scaling up multi-stakeholder platforms in different parts of the world, focusing on achievements, challenges, and the contribution to systemic change to reach SDG2. The specific discussions will take place in roundtables on Multi Stakeholder Platforms in the following domains:
- Seed Systems
- Food Loss and Waste
- Digitalization
- Access to Nutritious Food
- Finance
- Responsible Business Conduct
- Natural Resource Management
Curator & Keynote speakers
Olav Kjørven
Curator of this independent dialogue Olav Kjørven is EAT’s Senior Director of Strategy. In this role Olav is part of EAT’s Leadership team and provides strategic oversight to EAT’s policy work, leads engagement on global policy arenas, and guides EAT’s science and knowledge initiatives for maximum impact on food systems policies and practices.
David Nabarro
David Nabarro is the Co-Director of the Imperial College Institute of Global Health Innovation at the Imperial College London and supports systems leadership for sustainable development through his Switzerland based social enterprise 4SD. From March 2020, David is appointed Special Envoy of WHO Director General on COVID-19. He is also Senior Advisor to the Food Systems Summit Dialogues.
Gerda Verburg
Since August 2016, Gerda Verburg (The Netherlands) has served as UN Assistant Secretary-General and Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, working with the 62 country governments that lead the SUN Movement, united with UN agencies, civil society, business and donors, in a common mission to defeat malnutrition in all its forms. She was appointed by the UN Secretary-General based on her extensive experience in politics and international cooperation.
Joji Carino
Joji Carino (Ibaloi-Igorot, from the Cordillera region of the Philippines) is an active advocate for Indigenous peoples’ human rights at the community, national and international levels. Her work has covered indigenous knowledge and traditional occupations; cultural and biological diversity; and international standards on forests and biodiversity, water and energy, extractive industries, and food and agriculture.
Carola van Rijnsoever
Director Inclusive Green Growth, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. Carola van Rijnsoever has been working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for over 25 years. She worked, among others, at the Embassies in Moscow and Berlin and was Representative to the Political and Security Committee of the EU.
Kirsten Konst
Kirsten Konst is member of the Managing Board of Rabobank Group since 2017. As director Business Clients Kirsten is responsible for the local branch network, commercial banking and Food&Agri clients in the Netherlands.
Hedwig Bruggeman
Hedwig Bruggeman is leading Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation, one of the research Institutes of Wageningen University & Research. She was trained as a tropical animal production specialist focussing on crop livestock interactions. Hedwig’s drive and focus is on capacity building and connecting competencies of professionals across the borders of their own organisations in order to assure maximum impact on sustainable development goals.In September 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit that will launch bold new actions to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of which relies to some degree on healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems. The Summit will awaken the world to the fact that we all must work together to transform the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about food. It is a summit for everyone everywhere – a people’s summit. It is also a solutions summit that will require everyone to take action to transform the world’s food systems. Independent Summit Dialogues are both an important avenue for citizen engagement and a key part of the Summit process. For more information, visit the website.