Food Day at UNCCD COP15
The Seeds of Change for a Nature-Positive Future
Join us in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire, for the first ever Food Day at a UN Rio Convention Conference of the Parties!
Co-organised by WWF, CGIAR, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), FAO, CIFOR-ICRAF, TMG Think Tank, UN Environment Programme and IICA, and hosted at the Rio Convention Pavilion, this full-day event will encourage stakeholders to include food systems approaches in the implementation of the Rio Conventions on Desertification, Biodiversity and Climate.
The UNCCD COP15 Food Day - Seeds of Change for a Nature-Positive Future will focus on cross-cutting policy responses spanning multiple global agreements, the interdependence of food system demand-side drivers and supply chains, and capacity to deliver a coherent suite of on-the-ground actions.
It will help countries, organisations and the science community It will help countries, science and organizations to develop stronger plans to achieve the UNCCD Land Degradation Neutrality targets and Nationally Determined Contributions of the UNFCCC Paris Climate Agreement, and work towards an ambitious post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework under the UNCBD.
To feed a growing population healthy and nutritious diets within planetary boundaries, we must halt conversion of nature, limit food production to existing farmland and keep climate change to no more than 1.5°C. Restoring degraded ecosystems can deliver multiple benefits for people, nature and climate, particularly by restoring degraded farmland for nature-positive food production.
Approximately 52% of all farmland is degraded and underperforming. We need to urgently scale up the implementation of restoration, by setting the right enabling conditions and incentives and return this land to nature-positive food production for the well-being of people.
Schedule
09:00-10:00 High-level Opening Session: Importance of Food SystemsTransformation to achieve Rio Convention objectives
10:00-11:00 My Land My Rights: Legitimate Tenure Rights for Food Security, Climate Resilience and Ecosystem Restoration
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Healthy Soil for a Healthy Planet: Building resilient food systems for increased food and nutrition security, improved agroecology approaches, strengthened soil health
12.30–13:30 Planet friendly Lunch
13:30-14:30 Agrobiodiversity - Our Past Our Future: Use of local seeds and traditional practices
14:30 - 15:30 Food Systems Transformation: Ways to strengthen implementation of the Rio Conventions
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Guardians of our Planet: The impact of women and indigenous groups to Food Systems transformation
17:00-17:30 Closing address - My Diet Our Health: Shifting consumption and diets for healthy people and healthy planet
18:30-20:00 Reception and networking