Programme

Tentative Agenda

Tuesday, 27 June 2023 

8:00 - 9:00 

  • Registration and welcome coffee  

9:00 - 11:30

  • Opening session
  • Welcome by Federal Minister Özdemir
  • Greeting by Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Opening by Conference Chair CFS-Chairperson Ambassador Gabriel Ferrero de Loma-Osorio
  • Keynote: Michael Windfuhr, Vice Chair; UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 
  • Panel discussion 
    • Michael Fakhri; UN Rapporteur on the right to adequate food
    • Elisabetta Recine, President, National Council for Food and Nutrition Security (CONSEA)
    • Martin Frick, Director, Global Office Berlin, World Food Programme (WFP)
    • Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (tbc)

11:30 - 13:30 

  • Lunch and Networking

13:30 - 15:30

  • Working groups
    • WG 1 - Crises resilience of food systems
      Chairs:
      Sibi Lawson-Marriott, Senior Regional Programme Advisor Food Systems, World Food Programme
      (WFP)
      Dr. Cibele Queiroz, Stockholm Resilience Centre (tbc)
    • WG 2 - The role of smallholder farmers in food systems transformation
      Chairs:
      Sofia Monsalve, Secretary General, FIAN International
      Ron Hartman, Director, Global Engagement, Partnership and Resource Mobilization, International
      Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
    • WG 3 - Better governance to transform our food systems
      Chairs:
      Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
      Danielle Resnick, David M. Rubenstein Fellow – Global Economy and
      Development, Brookings Institution and Non-Resident Fellow, International Food Policy Research
      Institute (IFPRI)
    • WG 4 - The role of CFS in advancing the right to adequate food
      Chairs:
      Nosipho Nausca-Jean Jezile, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa, Rome
      Hilal Elver, Member of the steering committee of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security
      and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) of CFS

15:30 - 16:00 

  • Coffee break

16:00 - 18:00

  • Working groups continued

18:30 - 21.30

  • Reception

Wednesday, 28 June 2023 

8:00 - 9:00

  • Registration and welcome coffee 

9:00 - 10:00 

  • Reports from working groups

10:00 - 10:30

  • Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00

  • Reflection of the results in the plenary ("world café") 

12:00 - 13:00

  • Final panel discussion (with chairs of working groups)

13:00 - 13:15

  • Closing session
    • Closing remarks by Conference Chair CFS-Chairperson Ambassador Gabriel Ferrero
    • Closing remarks by Parliamentary State Secretary Claudia Müller, BMEL

13:15 - 15:00 

  • Lunch and Networking

15:00

  • End of conference