Want to learn more about creating a resilient global food system? The second Digital Dialogue hosted by the World Food Prize Foundation will focus on Defining Medium to Long-term Improvements for Resilient Food Systems.

The Digital Dialogue will be 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on May 14. Speakers include:

Click here to register for this free event.

This Digital Dialogue addresses critical issues for a resilient global food system. In this session, experts look to the medium to longer-term needs for reshaping the food system, especially as espoused in numerous global calls to action and open letters in circulation. 

For example, recently world leaders called to design COVID-19 response measures to minimize the risks of the pandemic’s impact on food security, and take action in three key areas:

An open letter to the G20 and UN now calls for addressing the inter-related challenges of hunger, malnutrition, climate change and environmental degradation, emphasizing the need for concerted, proactive and collective actions.

“As the leaders of the powerful and rich nations try to limit the damage of COVID-19, we must not forget the actions needed now to ensure that there will be food and nutrition for the poorest and the weakest members of the human family,” said Ismail Serageldin, Emeritus Librarian of Alexandria and signatory to the open letter.

“The COVID crisis has come as a reminder of some fundamental challenges the food and farming systems have been facing,” said Purvi Mehta, Head of Agriculture Development for Asia at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a member of the World Food Prize Council of Advisors. “This dialogue will help us deliberate upon, not just the short-term responses to the crisis, but also longer term strategies to build resilience.”

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