IFPRI-FAO Bangkok Conference Daily Flash Update: Thursday, November 29, 2018

Nov 28, 2018

Highlights from the INAUGURATION

  • How did Bangladesh accelerate progress? See the video from Shirin Sharmin Choudhury, Speaker of the Parliament of Bangladesh.
  • Continue to accelerate!
    • Join us for Day 2 of our Global Event at the Centara Grand Hotel at Central World. A conference shuttle will leave from some nearby hotels at 7:00AM to head to Centara Grand.

Quotes

Inonge Wina
“We are racing against time. We only have a maximum of 11 years to end hunger in the world by 2030.”

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Phouang Parisak
“Dealing with hunger and [malnutrition] in isolation will not work if you don’t deal with poverty at the same time.”

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Édouard Ngirente
“Having a healthy and productive population requires putting appropriate policies that fight hunger and malnutrition at the center stage”

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Madeleine Onclin
“[We have a role] to connect decision makers with the knowledge required to make good decisions.”

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Guido Girardi
Chile: Children today are not [just] consuming food, they are consuming experiences and aspirations, and they’re doing this through junk food...we must not be accomplices in this business of junk food.

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Zinash Tayachew
“When hunger and malnutrition is put to and end the result is a blessed generation; a blessed generation for a blessed nation is my vision”

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Today's PROGRAM

07:30–08:30 SIDE EVENTS: Session 5 | ACCELERATION FAIR
08:45–09:00 Welcome and Setting the Scene

WORLD BALLROOM B
09:00–10:30 PLENARY SESSION 1
Speeding Progress: Accelerators in Food Systems
10:30–10:45 Launch of the Global Nutrition Report 2018
10:45–11:15 Coffee / Tea Break
11:15–12:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS

A

 Leaving No One Behind: Inclusive Acceleration

WORLD BALLROOM A

B

 Healthy and Sustainable Diets in a Time of Climate Change

WORLD BALLROOM B

C

 Public-Private Partnerships to End Hunger and Malnutrition

WORLD BALLROOM C
13:00–14:30 SIDE EVENTS: Session 6 | ACCELERATION FAIR | Lunch
14:45–14:50 SPECIAL EVENT

WORLD BALLROOM B
14:50–16:30 PLENARY SESSION 2
Innovation for Acceleration: New Technologies, Start-Ups, and Policies
16:30–17:50 PLENARY SESSION 3
Leveraging the Food System to Tackle Overweight and Obesity
18:00–19:30 SIDE EVENTS: Session 7 | ACCELERATION FAIR
19:30–21:00 Reception and Networking

26th FLOOR

Today's SIDE EVENTS

07:30–08:30

SESSION

5

 14. Improving Approaches to Humanitarian Assistance to Improve Food Security in Fragile Settings

WORLD BALLROOM A
15. Vietnam-Japan collaboration for Nutrition System Establishment: Evolution in Asia toward N4G Summit in Tokyo 2020

M4
16. Building Partnerships to Promote a Healthy Asia

M1 & 2
17. Launch of the report “All Hands on Deck: Reducing Stunting through Multisectoral Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa”

WORLD BALLROOM C

13:00–14:30

SESSION

6

 18. Shining a Light on Transformative Action: Regional Perspectives

WORLD BALLROOM C
19. The Role of Biofortification in the Fight Against Malnutrition

M4
20. Scaling Up Nutrition Together in 2017-2018 – For Impact on People, Societies & Countries

WORLD BALLROOM A

18:00–19:30

SESSION

7

 21. A Decade of Action to End All Forms of Malnutrition

WORLD BALLROOM A
22. Global Access to Nutrition Index 2018: Monitoring the Efforts Made by the World’s Largest Food and Beverage Manufacturers to Tackle Undernutrition M4
23. FIRST: An EU-FAO Policy-Investment Initiative in Support of SDG2

WORLD BALLROOM C
24. Facilitating the Transformation of Food Systems:The Food Systems Dialogues (FSDs)

M1 & 2
25. Tracking Aid for the WHA Nutrition Targets: Trends in ODA Disbursements and Next Steps for the Community (Invitation Only)

LOTUS SUITE 13

Race to 2030

How can we accelerate progress in transforming our agri-food systems to meet the needs of the hungry and malnourished and achieve the SDGs?
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