Events
The Global Panel at Nutrition for Growth (N4G) 2025
The Global Panel is looking forward to attending the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) 2025 event in Paris this week, and is pleased to support the new Global Compact on Nutrition for Growth, published by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). The French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs will host the event between…
Launch of our latest report, Building Resilience and Enhancing Nutrition in Africa’s food systems:
The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition hosted a webinar on the 21st of January 2025 to launch its new report Building Resilience and Enhancing Nutrition in Africa’s food systems. The event, attended by 150 participants, was chaired by Global Panel Chair, Sir John Beddington, and moderated by Panel members Dr.…
Launch of our new report, Building Resilience and Enhancing Nutrition in Africa’s food systems.
21 January 2025 Join us on 21 January 2025 for the launch of our new report Building Resilience and Enhancing Nutrition in Africa’s food systems. With 28.9% of the world’s population (2.33 billion people) experiencing either moderate or severe food insecurity, ensuring universal access to adequate food and nutrition has become a global imperative. However,…
The Global Panel at CFS 52 – “Just in time” or “just in case” food systems?
The Global Panel, in partnership with the Governments of Sierra Leone and Brazil, and the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) from the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), hosted a side event at the 52nd session of the CFS 52 on 24th October 2024. The event, “Just in time” or…
Sierra Leone Workshop on Strengthening Resilience in Food Systems Transformation
As part of the Global Panel’s project Strengthening Resilience in the Transformation of Food Systems, the President together with its partners conducted a two-day National Stakeholders’ Workshop in Freetown on September 12 and 13. It brought together diverse stakeholders from the agriculture, food systems and nutrition sectors to gather evidence and build consensus for a…
Global Panel side event at the African Food Systems Forum 2024
The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition convened a side event Gender Responsive Approaches Driving Food Transformation with partners African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), CABI and the Global Solutions Initiative at the AFS Forum 2024 on September 2 in Kigali to highlight the critical need for gender-sensitive strategies to…
Delegation visit to Malawi for the 7th meeting of the Lead Expert Group
As part of the Global Panel’s project on Strengthening resilience in the transformation of food systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Africa a delegation comprising members of the Lead Expert Group (LEG) and Secretariat staff visited Lilongwe in Malawi in July 2024 to gain a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities for food…
Delegation visit to Sierra Leone for the 4th meeting of the Lead Expert Group
The rationale for the Global Panel project on Strengthening resilience in the transformation of food systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Africa is the ever-increasing threats to food systems and sustainable healthy diets in sub-Saharan Africa. These threats include climate change, local and distant conflicts, and the growing debt crisis. Such challenges continue to…
Webinar: Pursuing food systems transformation despite financial constraints
On December 13th 2023, we held a webinar in collaboration with Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab at Tufts University which discussed a diverse range of actions from our latest Policy brief “Pursuing food systems transformation despite financial constraints” that are relatively low-cost, or even cost-neutral which can provide a solid and substantial foundation on…
Building Resilience into Food System Transformation in Ethiopia
On the 21st of September 2023 we held a joint workshop in collaboration with our distinguished partners in Ethiopia. The aim was to take a critical look at the evolving challenges facing food systems and to debate the opportunities and challenges inherent in strengthening the resilience of Ethiopia’s food systems. The term ’resilience’ in this…