Farmer-Driven Solutions To Global Challenges - HLPF22 Side Event
When: 6 July 7.30 – 9.00 am NY time (13:30 CEST)
We will participate in the side event 'Farmer-Driven Solutions To Global Challenges' during the High-Level Political Forum 2022. This is an opportunity to showcase how farmers around the world are coping with global challenges and crises, as well as discuss their needs across different regions.
A diverse panel will exchange on the dire need to shift towards more enabling, inclusive, cross-sectoral, and coherent policy environments at all levels. This is key to allowing all relevant stakeholders, farmers first, to be engaged as partners in the creation of more sustainable, fair, and resilient food systems, while achieving the 2030 Agenda.
The speakers will share farmers’ stories and best practices from different regions. They will exchange on how they, as agents of change, are coping with such challenges, as well as how other relevant stakeholders, including UN organisations, are collaborating with them.
Introduction
7.30 – 7.35: Welcome by the moderator
7.35 – 7.40: Arnold Puech d’Alissac, WFO President
7.40 – 7.45: Gábor Figeczky, Senior Manager of Global Policy, IFOAM - Organics International
7.45 – 7.50 - Wali Haider, representative of Society for Roots for Equity
Panel discussion
7.50 – 8.30
- Minette Batters, NFU UK, President
- Janet Maro, Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania, IFOAM - Organics International
- BESH representative
- Rafael Mariano, Chairman Emeritus, Peasant Movement of the Philippines
- Anna Korzenszky, FAO, UNDFF Secretariat
Q&A
8.30 – 8.50
Wrap-up and closing remarks
08.50 – 9.00
Farmer-Driven Solutions To Global Challenges
How farmers around the world are coping with global crises, in the follow-up of the UNFSS
6 July, 7.30 – 9.00 am NY time
Humankind faces an unprecedented crisis, with conflicts raising in different countries, an increase in the effects of the climate crisis and related disasters, and food insecurity and malnutrition worsening in different regions.
On top of this, the pandemic continues to disrupt our health care systems, transportation, and economies. Its repercussions affect the livelihoods of the world’s most vulnerable – including farmers, particularly in developing countries.
The past two years have more than ever made clear how we all rely on agriculture. Farmers are those who have been and continue to provide healthy, nutritious, and affordable food while protecting our planet. Indeed agriculture, both organic and conventional, has a key role to play in ensuring food security and nutrition while tackling the climate crisis, including through carbon sequestration and preserving biodiversity in both livestock and crop production.
The HLPF is the central United Nations platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the global level.