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Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:56:29 +0000
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This is Andrew Fieldsend, of the Research Institute of Agricultural Economics in Budapest, Hungary. The Moderator has informed us that the impressive total of 460 persons have subscribed to the conference, and the contributions have been stimulating. If it is not deemed to be too much off topic, some of you may be interested in the following information:

The University of Hohenheim and the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) organized a high-level international event with the participation of 200 scientists and experts on 27 September 2016. They identified and discussed research priorities for food and nutrition security. Documentation of the event is available on the website https://gfe.uni-hohenheim.de/events. There you will find the video recordings of the speakers' presentations and the corresponding presentation slides. Further documents, such as the press release, articles and the condensed written report of the event have already been uploaded as well or will follow soon.

Furthermore, people might like to consider making a contribution to the consultation of the HLPE on "critical and emerging issues in the area of food security and nutrition to inform the work of the CFS". The open inquiry will run until 31 October 2016. People can suggest and document any issue they might find worthwhile to be presented, up to 10 in total. You can download the questionnaire and related information here: http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe/critical-and-emerging-issues/en/ 

Andrew Fieldsend
Research Institute of Agricultural Economics
Zsil utca 3-5
1093 Budapest
Hungary
www.aki.gov.hu
E-mail: andrew.fieldsend (at) aki.gov.hu

[The central role that the CFS plays as an international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition was underlined in the e-mail conference background document, so this information from Andrew is very timely. The annual session of the CFS is currently ongoing (17-21 October) and yesterday afternoon it dealt with the item on  "Connecting Smallholders to Markets: Policy Recommendations". See http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs43/en/ for all details...Moderator].

[To contribute to this conference, send your message to [log in to unmask] For further information, see http://www.fao.org/nr/research-extension-systems/res-home/news/detail/en/c/434322/ ].

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