FAO Media s[Graphical user interface, text Description automatically generated] Physics Laureate Parisi joins FAO Nobel Alliance for Food Security and Peace Wednesday 19 January 2022, 11:00 CET Disruptive weather patterns and climate change have a direct bearing on global food security, so a better understanding of such complex systems is crucial to fighting hunger and poverty. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is pleased to invite you to the virtual event “Climate Change, Peace and Food Security. A holistic approach for a sustainable future.” During the event, the 2021 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Giorgio Parisi, will be invited to join the FAO Nobel Laureates Alliance for Food Security and Peace and will deliver a lecture entitled: “Science: the headlight on our future.” A native of Rome, Parisi was awarded the Nobel prize for “the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales." The virtual event will be opened by the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, with interventions from Luigi Di Maio, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, and Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate. The event will be webcast here<https://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/5760/icode/> and can also be followed by registering here<https://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/5760/icode/>. Simultaneous interpretation will be available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and Italian. The FAO Nobel Laureates Alliance for Food Security and Peace was launched in 2016 to serve as a platform for strategic dialogue between FAO and Nobel Laureates on the relationship between food security and peace and advocating the establishment of peaceful and inclusive societies. RESOURCES FOR THE MEDIA Registration<https://fao.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oWfNutLtTJC5h2GCwLU7PQ> Webcast<https://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/5760/icode/> FOLLOW ON TWITTER @FAO, @FAOnews #FoodSecurity FOR MORE INFORMATION FAO Newsroom +39 06 570 53625 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Journalists & editors: For photos, audio clips, video material & b-roll, contact: (+39) 06 570 53625 or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Online tools: Photos via the FAOnews Flickr account<http://www.flickr.com/photos/faonews> RSS feed<http://www.fao.org/news/rss-feed/en/> of FAO news releases @FAOnews on Twitter<https://twitter.com/faonews/> This media advisory was issued by the Media Office at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). To unsubscribe from this news service send an email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with "signoff Media-G-Eng-L" as the only text in the message body. FAO | Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy | (+39) 06 570 53625 | www.fao.org<http://www.fao.org>