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World Food Day 2022

On Wednesday 12 October 2022, Netherlands Food Partnership is hosting a unique and uplifting hybrid gathering for food professionals to celebrate World Food Day 2022. Streaming live from Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, we welcome food pioneers from around the globe to join us.

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What we have cooked up for you

Netherlands Food Partnership is hosting this creative and thought provoking event for food professionals to celebrate World Food Day 2022 on behalf of the Ministry Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.

With COP27 just on the horizon where Food and Nutrition Security will be high on the agenda, this event will set out the key priorities and urgent action needed to address and mitigate the food and climate crises.

Programme

Programme

14:00-14:30 - Setting the scene: urgency and discomfort

There are multiple pathways towards more climate-resilient and sustainable food systems for a growing population within our planetary boundaries. World Food Day 2022 will be about exploring these pathways by zooming in and out of our food systems to define where priority should lie.

14:30-15:15 - Impact and solutions: the local perspective

Local and regional food systems are often presented as one of the pathways to increase the resilience of food systems and as a means to improve the environmental footprint of food systems. It is about re-establishing our relationship to our food and the environment in which it is produced.

15:15-16:00 - Shared responsibility: the global perspective

To solve the current food crisis and transition to a resilient, just and healthy food system for people and our planet we need to think big (at scale). What are big ideas that might seem unreachable but can inspire us to think big? What trade-offs do we have to consider when implementing these ideas? How can these big ideas connect to the local realities, are they really feasible?

16:00-16:45 - Priorities for COP27- A plate full of action

Diving into the NL policy priorities for COP27 from a local and global perspective in order to identify the required short term urgent actions, collaborations and policy coherence. What are the commitments of NFP/BZ/LNV in the coming 7 years in terms of these priorities. What are the priorities for youth regarding COP27. How do we bring about policy coherence.

17:00-18.30 - Networking Drinks

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Meet our Speakers

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Dhanush Dinesh

Dr Dhanush Dinesh is the Founder of Clim-Eat, a think and do tank to accelerate climate action in food systems, hosted by the Netherlands Food Partnership.
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Thin Lei Win

Thin Lei Win is an award-winning Italy-based multimedia journalist specialising in food and climate issues for various international news media including through her own newsletter Thin Ink.
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Josephine Akia Luyimbazi

Josephine Akia Luyimbazi is the Country Coordinator of Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Uganda, a national network of 65 like-minded organisations working together to promote Agroecology in Uganda.
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Rebecca Sarku

Rebecca Sarku, PhD, is a researcher and consultant tackling poverty, food insecurity, and environmental challenges and delivers innovative and multidisciplinary result-oriented solutions in complex and marginalised communities.
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Martijn Noort

Martijn works as project manager and scientist for Wageningen Food & Biobased Research. He is coordinator for the LEAP Agri NUTRIFOODS project which is an African-European collaboration to develop bread products based on African climate resilient crops.
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Dominique Xavio Imbabazi

Dominique Xavio Imbabazi is the Founder & Managing Director of Golden Insect LTD.
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Pablo Tittonell

Pablo Tittonell is Professor of Agroecology and Sustainable Landscapes at the University of Groningen and Senior researcher at the French International Cooperation Centre for Agricultural Research and Development (CIRAD). He holds a WWF-endowed Chair on Resilient Landscapes for Nature and People at the Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life Sciences and is Principal Research Scientist by Argentina’s National Council for Science and Technology (CONICET), formerly with a seat at the Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina.
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Han de Groot

Han de Groot is the current interim director of the Netherlands Food Partnership, NFP. Han is the former CEO of Rainforest Alliance. He led the merger with UTZ Certified, where, as Executive Director for eight years, he built the agricultural standard into the world’s largest sustainability program for coffee and cocoa.
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David Klingen

Energised by his vision of a healthier planet, David spends his days reshaping our food industry’s unsustainable processes.
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Sarah Oey

Sarah is one of the youth representatives on sustainable development from The Netherlands. From the beginning of her mandate, she wants to raise awareness on air pollution in The Netherlands and abroad because air pollution dangers human & animal well-being and endangers the biodiversity.
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Lucas du Pré

Lucas works on the nexus between climate change, agriculture and food systems. He is part of the Dutch delegation to UNFCCC. He also works with the agricultural attachés of the Netherlands based in the embassies in the North of Africa.
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Wouter Ubbink

Wouter is one of the two UN youth representatives on Biodiversity and Food. Wouter is fighting for a world where people live in balance with nature. To achieve the halting of biodiversity loss, we need to radically change the way we produce and consume food.
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Marion Janse

Marion is Policy Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She works on Food and Nutrition Security to contribute to SDG2 - Zero Hunger with a focus on Sub Saharan Africa.

Meet our Moderators

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Lynn Zebeda has diverse experience in the fields of sustainability, social entrepreneurship, and systems change, and when she is not working on initiatives herself, she enjoys questioning others about them as a moderator.
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Ama van Dantzig

Ama van Dantzig spends her time building bridges between seemingly different worlds, between Africa and Europe. She weaves together diverse realities and perspectives in search of better responses and coping strategies.

Meet our Spoken Word Artist

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Lisette Ma Neza

Lisette Ma Neza is a slam poet, filmmaker and musician. She is known for her sharp pen, soft voice and Slam Poetry performances. Her performances balance between painfully direct and amorous naivety, and they often grab the audience by the throat.

Meet our Lunch Hosts

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Clim Eat

Clim-Eat is a think-and-do tank that aims to accelerate food systems transformation under climate change. Clim-Eat forms a bridge between the food and climate communities, mobilising knowledge and connecting it to action through policy and practice.
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Wageningen University and Research

Wageningen University & Research is a collaboration between the education and fundamental research of Wageningen University and the applied scientific Wageningen Research institutes.
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Seed NL

SeedNL aims to contribute to meeting the increasing global demand for quality food by improving farmers’ access to quality seeds. We support access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food while promoting innovations that enable sustainable seed sector transformation.
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YALTA

The YALTA initiative is a partnership between Netherlands Food Partnership and the IKEA Foundation that promotes business opportunities and capacities of youth in agroecology and helps to create a conducive business ecosystem for them.
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NWGN

NWGN is a network of professionals based in the Netherlands and working in the field of international nutrition. NWGN aims to increase the nutrition impact of Dutch stakeholders  by exchanging knowledge and influencing and supporting them in how to better include nutrition in their policies and their work in LMIC settings.
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NJR

NJR is the springboard of the new generation. We're accelerating. Want to mean something to the world. Start small and grow big. Our aim is to encourage and support the participation of young people at all levels of society; ensuring that young people know, develop and use their strengths for a better future for themselves and others.
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Zero Hunger Lab

How can our hunger for data help reduce world hunger? The Zero Hunger Lab helps with mathematics and data science to realise global food security. Our mission is to make people all over the world independent of food aid so they can ensure sustainable food security themselves.
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Food4All

The Food4All Coalition is an informal knowledge and exchange platform of nine Dutch NGOs working on improving food security and strengthening sustainable agricultural development. They align and coordinate messaging and advocacy towards policy makers, politics and the general public on policy coherence for development.

The programme will be updated with additional speakers and further details during the run-up to the event. You can also keep up to date on our World Food Day celebration event by following us on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Contact

For all enquiries and further information contact email: info@nlfoodpartnership.com

Made possible together with

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality