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High–level Pacific leaders’ meeting with FAO


Saturday 11 November, 16.00 - 17.30 CEST, FAO Rome
The event is open to the media and will be webcast.
On Saturday 11 November, leaders of 11 states in the Pacific will gather at FAO for a roundtable discussion on the region’s food security and nutrition challenges, the impact of climate change, disaster risk reduction and the building of resilient livelihoods. The Pacific leaders will afterwards travel to Bonn to attend the UN Climate Conference COP23.
Pacific islanders’ lives are severely affected by the impacts of climate change and frequent natural disasters. Chronic malnutrition is a serious concern but so is the other extreme of poor diets – rising obesity. Poor diets, in turn, are influenced by existing food systems that determine availability, affordability, convenience and desirability of various foods across the regions.
Other threats to the future of food security and nutrition include: rapid urban population growth; land degradation and decreasing food production; erosion of crop genetic diversity; coastal and coral degradation and declining productivity of fisheries; and breakdowns in traditional social safety nets.
Participants of the High-level Pacific leaders’ meeting with FAO include:

·         José Graziano da Silva, Director-General, FAO

·         Taneti Maamau, President, Republic of Kiribati

·         Baron Waqa, President, Republic of Nauru

·         Hilda Heine, President, Republic of Marshall Islands

·         Yosiwo P. George, Vice President, Federated States of Micronesia

·         Henry Puna, Prime Minister, Cook Islands

·         Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas, Prime Minister, Republic of Vanuatu

·         Fiame Naomi Mataafa, Deputy Prime Minister, Samoa

·         Joshua Kalinoe, Special Envoy of the Prime Minister, Papua New Guinea

·         James Shaw, Minister for Climate Change, New Zealand

·         Aupito William Sio, Minister for Pacific Peoples, New Zealand

·         Édouard Fritch, President, French Polynesia

·         Colin Tukuitonga, Director-General, Secretariat of the Pacific Community

·         Dame Meg Taylor, Secretary-General, Pacific Islands Forum

·         James Movick, Director-General, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency


RESOURCES
FAO and Small Island Developing States: http://www.fao.org/sids/en/

Global Action Programme on Food Security and Nutrition in Small Island Developing States: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7135e.pdf

WEBCAST
The roundtable discussion will be webcast<http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/> at http://www.fao.org/webcast/en/.
PHOTOS of the summit will be available on: FAOnews Flickr account<http://www.flickr.com/photos/faonews>

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ACCREDITATION
The roundtable discussion is open to the media. Deadline for accreditation is Thursday, 9 November 2017, 17.00h.
Please email the following documents to: [log in to unmask]<file:///C:\Users\Mayer\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\Content.Outlook\UOSQWFUN\[log in to unmask]> indicating “SIDS Accreditation” in the subject line:
·         a copy of a valid press card (or) letter of assignment on company stationery
·         a copy  of a valid ID (passport, identity card)
Please have all ID materials with you to gain access to FAO premises.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
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