Past events
EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2019
12/06/2019 - 12-13 June 13, 2019 Annexet and Quality Hotel Globe Stockholm (Sweden) EAT Stockholm Food Forum is a carefully curated event, open to up to 1000 delegates by invitation only, which gathers [...]
International Symposium - The Future of Food
10/06/2019 - 10-11 June 2019FAO HQ, Rome (Italy) While undernutrition persists, we are witnessing an unprecedented rise in obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases, including in low- and middle-income [...]
ECOSOC 2019 Management Segment
06/06/2019 - 6-7 June 2019New York The Management Segment serves the following functions: The review of the reports of the Council’s subsidiary and expert bodies; these include the reports of all [...]
FAO Webinar: Food-Based Dietary Guidelines: What are they? How are they used? What is their potential?
04/06/2019 - Tuesday 4 June13.00 (GMT), 14.00 (CET) Presenter: Fatima Hachem Senior Nutrition and Food Systems Officer Nutrition Education and Consumer Awareness Group, FAO In the arena of food and nutrition, [...]
E-Conference: The Latest Evidence on Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
03/06/2019 - 3-5 June 2019 Nutrition-sensitive agriculture offers great potential for Sustainable Development Goal 2 as it connects agricultural development to improved nutrition outcomes. Examples of [...]
What is the Cost of a Healthy Diet? New Price Indexes Reveal Changes in Affordability of Nutritious Foods - IFPRI Policy Seminar
29/05/2019 - 29 May, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT Interventions and innovation can lower the price of individual foods, but healthy eating depends on access to a mix of foods from diverse [...]
Ag2Nut Webinar - Development of Food-Based Dietary Guidelines in Ethiopia, and a Global Review of FBDG
21/05/2019 - Tuesday, May 21, 20199:00am New York2:00pm London 3:00pm CEST4:00pm Ethiopia What is a healthy diet? This Ag2Nut webinar presents how 90 countries have answered that question, sharing results [...]
Seventy-second World Health Assembly
20/05/2019 - 20–28 May 2019Geneva, Switzerland The Seventy-second World Health Assembly (WHA72) will take place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 20-28 May 2019. The WHA, the [...]
Urban Food Systems for Better Diets, Nutrition, and Health
17/05/2019 - Friday, 17 May 2019 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm (EDT) IFPRI, Washington, D.C. 20005 The explosive growth of cities all over the world has led to major shifts in diets, with serious consequences [...]
IFAD demonstrates progress on Nutrition Decade
07/05/2019 - IFAD's contribution to the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition is high on its corporate agenda, with "improving the nutritional level of the poorest populations in developing countries" as a principal [...]
Enhancing food systems dialogues in Central Asia and Caucasus
07/05/2019 - A recent sub-regional symposia - Symposium on sustainable food systems and nutrition governance for healthy diets in Central Asia and Caucasus – was held from 24-26 April 2019 in Astana, [...]
Webinar - Anaemia prevention programmes for women: an opportunity for double duty actions
03/05/2019 - 3 May 2019 at 9:00 EDT As the call for universal coverage of public health interventions gains momentum, we need to ask: are anaemia prevention programmes doing enough to improve women's health? Is [...]
The FAO/WHO/WTO International Forum on Food Safety and Trade
23/04/2019 - 23-24 April 2019Geneva, Switzerland Continuing the discussions from the Addis Conference, the Geneva Forum will address the trade-related aspects and challenges of food safety. The food safety [...]
Food and Water Security: A Balancing Act in the Era of Climate Change
17/04/2019 - Wednesday, 17 April 2019 | 5:00pm – 7:00pm EDTRome Building, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC 20036 Welcome and Introduction: Jessica Fanzo, Bloomberg Distinguished Associate [...]
Monitoring and Evaluating for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems
03/04/2019 - 3-4 April 2019WICC Wageningen, the Netherlands In order to deliver on the 2030 SDG- Agenda, we need to improve on the performance of food systems. 'Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals [...]