End Hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
14 November 2017
14:15 – 15:45
Meeting Room 1 – Bonn Zone
Roundtable 3: Building Climate-Resilient Landscapes for Improved Food Security and Nutrition
Short description
The roundtable will explore challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned in the forest and agriculture sectors, and will in particular focus on identifying the kinds of support needed to allow the small-scale foresters, indigenous peoples and pastoralists to identify sustainable coping strategies as well as the role of investors and private sector in support to sustainable land management and wider landscape approaches. It will also map key governance challenges, and review partnership experiences for the implementation of integrated landscape approaches.
Moderator: Mr. Benoît Bosquet, Practice Manager for Environment and Natural Resources, World Bank
Speakers:
- Eduardo Mansur, Director Land and Water Division, FAO
- Judi Wangalwa Wakhungu, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Kenya
- Sydney Alexander Samuels Milson, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Guatemala
- Joan Carling, Co-convenor of the Indigenous Peoples’ Major Group (IPMG) for Sustainable Development
- Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Minister of Environment, Indonesia
- Walter Oyhantcabal, Director, Agriculture and Climate Change Unit, Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fishery, Uruguay
- Valentina Savastano, Vice-Chair, Committee on World Food Security
