Past events
Leaving no one behind – making the case for adolescent girls
22/10/2018 - 22 - 23 October 2018IFAD HQ, Rome (Italy) The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Save the Children Italy are hosting an international conference entitled “Leaving [...]
World Food Day 2018 - Zero Hunger
16/10/2018 - World Food Day 2018 will mark the 73rd anniversary of FAO’s founding. One of the most celebrated days in the UN calendar, events organized by FAO country offices, governments, local [...]
45th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
15/10/2018 - 15-20 October 2018, FAO, Rome, Italy The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure [...]
Gender Health Equity Over the Life Course
08/10/2018 - Identifying and overcoming the barriers women face in accessing health systems in low-resource settings Monday, 8 October 2018 from 8.30-12.30pm in the ACC Room 12 of the Global Symposium [...]
eConsultation on the V0 Draft of the HLPE Report
05/10/2018 - The CFS High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) is now launching an e-consultation to seek inputs, suggestions, and comments on the V0 Draft of the forthcoming HLPE Report on Agroecological [...]
International Forum on Food and Nutrition
28/09/2018 - 28 September 2018, Barnard College - Columbia University, New York City (USA) The global food system faces unprecedented challenges. Today, in the world 815 million people are starving [...]
Third United Nations High-level Meeting on NCDs
27/09/2018 - 27 September 2018, 09:00 – 17:00 UTC, UN Headquarters, New York (USA) In September, the United Nations General Assembly staged the third High-level Meeting (HLM3) on the prevention and [...]
The Congress FOOD 2030: Towards sustainable agri-food systems
05/09/2018 - 5-6 September 2018 University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany The Congress FOOD 2030: Towards sustainable agri-food systems is one of the major events to mark the 200th anniversary of the [...]
Global Week for Action on NCDs
03/09/2018 - With the digital world switched on to talk about NCDs, the first Global Week for Action on NCDs – from Monday 3 September to Sunday 9 September – will provide everyone, [...]
Moving to sustainable and resilient societies: the food security and nutrition dimensions
11/07/2018 - 11 July, 18:30 - 20:00 pm EDT, Conference Room B, UN Conference Building, New York A joint CFS and UNSCN Side Event at the 2018 High Level Political Forum The pursuit of food security and nutrition [...]
From healthy waters to healthy people
05/07/2018 - Rome, 5 July 2018, FAO Headquarters Sheikh Zayed Centre, 09.30–14.30 The meeting is the first official meeting of the informal Global Action Network on Sustainable Food from the Oceans and [...]
Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week
25/06/2018 - 25 - 29 June 2018, Accra (Ghana). The Agriculture, Nutrition & Health (ANH) Academy is a global research network in agriculture and food systems for improved nutrition and health to serve as a [...]
Expert Group Meeting linking nutrition with the SDGs
19/06/2018 - 19-20 June 2018, UN HQ New York UNSCN organized an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) linking nutrition with the SDGs that are under review in 2018: SDG6, SDG7, SDG11, SDG12 and SDG15. The main objectives [...]
EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2018
11/06/2018 - 11-12 June 2018, Annexet and Quality Hotel Globe, Stockholm, Sweden The 2018 EAT Stockholm Food Forum explored a range of solutions available for achieving healthy and sustainable [...]
Seventy-first World Health Assembly
21/05/2018 - 21–26 May 2018 Geneva, Switzerland The Seventy-first World Health Assembly (WHA71) will take place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 21-26 May 2018. The World Health Assembly, [...]
