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MEDIA ADVISORY

FAO/WHO International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition

High-level meeting to examine concrete actions in UN nutrition decade

December 1-2 | FAO Headquarters, Rome

 

How can we shape food systems so that they deliver foods for a healthy and nutritious diet? How do we ensure poor communities have access to markets that sell nutritious foods at affordable prices? What information should be included on food labels to promote healthier diets?

 

These are among the pressing questions for discussion at the upcoming International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition taking place December 1-2 at FAO Headquarters in Rome.

 

The high-level event—co-organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO)—builds on the successful Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) held in November 2014.

 

The symposium, which will be web cast live, will bring together policymakers and parliamentarians, international experts and scientists, chefs and young innovators, to examine concrete ways to change food systems so that they respond to current and future nutrition challenges, including climate change, population growth and economic inequalities.

 

Highlights       [full programme]

 

December 1

 

09:00 - 11:00  OPENING CEREMONY

Remarks by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, King Letsie III of Lesotho, WHO Director of Nutrition for Health and Development Francesco Branca, and Minister of Health for Italy Beatrice Lorenzin. Keynote speech by Patrick Webb, Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, U.S.A.

 

11:00 - 13:15  Session I

·      Supply-side policies and measures to diversify food production, increase availability and affordability of nutritious foods for healthy diets

·      Demand-side policies and measures to increase access and empower consumers to choose healthy diets

·      Measures to strengthen accountability, resilience and equity within food systems

 

15:00 - 17.15  Session II

·      Maintaining and improving nutritional value and food safety

·      Information and education for healthy eating habits

·      Enhancing resilience of food systems in areas affected by climate change and other crises

December 2

09:00 – 11:15  Session III

·      Market opportunities for promoting healthy diets

·      Increasing access to healthy diets through social protection and income generation

·      Empowering women to drive food system changes

 

11:4512:45 Wrap-up of morning and discussion

In the presence of Queen Letizia of Spain, FAO Special Ambassador for Nutrition.

 

15:30-17:30  FINAL PLENARY

·      Work programme of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals

 

17:30-18:00  Closing Ceremony

FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, WHO Assistant Director-General Oleg Chestnov

RESOURCES FOR THE MEDIA

Symposium programme

Symposium website

Webcast

Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2)

UN Decade of Action on Nutrition

FAO’s work on nutrition & food systems

WHO’s work on nutrition

 

FOLLOW ON TWITTER

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@WHO

 

ACCREDITATION

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FOR MORE INFORMATION or to arrange an interview with an expert, contact:

 

Kim-Jenna Jurriaans

FAO Media Relations (Rome)

+39 06 570 54277

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Olivia Lawe Davies

WHO Communications Officer (in Rome 1-2 December)

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