Dear all, You are invited to a seminar on nutrition and sustainability on 12 November in Rome - attend at FAO or join livestream Seminar on Nutrition and Sustainability: A Long-term Vision for Effective Strategies Tuesday 12 November 08:00 to 18:00 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Green Room) Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), along with Bioversity International, the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition, and the governments of Malawi and Flanders are co-organizing a seminar to explore practical approaches and solutions to nutrition and sustainability in Rome, Italy on 12th November 2013. The seminar - Nutrition and Sustainability: A practical approach to integrating climate change, biodiversity and ecosystems, nutrition and health agendas - will be held at FAO headquarters from 8 am to 6 pm. This seminar will bring together around 300 scientists, policymakers, experts, students and practitioners to develop responses to countries' requests about "why?" and "how?" to link nutrition and sustainability, and to discuss the tradeoffs. Provisional agenda is available at http://www.unscn.org/en/nutrition_and_climate_change/nutrition_and_sustainability_seminar_12_november.php How can you participate? To be invited to this event, please contact the UNSCN Secretariat at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 5 November and share who you are and why you want to attend the Nutrition and Sustainability Seminar. Access to FAO will be restricted to those who have been invited. The seminar will be streamed live in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese: http://www.fao.org/webcast Join the discussion on Twitter with the hashtags #sustfoodsystems and #sustdiets. We welcome your participation. For more information go online to: http://www.unscn.org/en/nutrition_and_climate_change/nutrition_and_sustainability_seminar_12_november.php Regards to all, ________________________________________________________ Barbara Burlingame, PhD Deputy Director, Nutrition Division (ESND) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome ITALY Tel: +39-06-570-53728 Email: [log in to unmask] Skype: barbara.burlingame ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the InFoods-Food-Comp-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=InFoods-Food-Comp-L&A=1