Past events
Reducing Inequalities: SDG 10 Progress and Prospects
02/04/2019 - 2-3 April, 2019Geneva, Switzerland This two-day conference will look at the progress made on SDG 10, which calls for reduced inequalities. The outcomes from this conference will be used as inputs in [...]
First Global Conference on Synergies between the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement
01/04/2019 - 1-3 April 2019UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and the UNFCCC will convene the first global multi-stakeholder conference on synergies between the [...]
7th International Congress on Maternal Infant Nutrition in the First 1000 Days
27/03/2019 - A child’s future health is largely determined in the first 1000 days after conception, meaning pregnancy + the first two years of childhood. Proper nutrition, birth type, breastfeeding during [...]
LAUNCH EVENT: 2019 Global Food Policy Report
27/03/2019 - Wednesday 27 March 2019 - 12:15 PM to 01:45 PM EDTIFPRI, Washington, DC IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2018, [...]
Global Food Security Symposium 2019
20/03/2019 - 20-21 March 2019Washington DC, USA Convened annually, the Global Food Security Symposium addresses the US government's and international community’s progress on global food security [...]
4th session of the UN Environment Assembly
11/03/2019 - 8-15 March 2019, Nairobi, Kenya The United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme is the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment. [...]
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63)
11/03/2019 - 11-22 March 2019United Nations HQ, New York (USA) The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) will take place at the UN HQ, New York from 11 to 22 March 2019. [...]
3rd meeting in the Global Action Network on Sustainable Food from the Oceans and Inland Waters for Food Security and Nutrition
06/03/2019 - 6 March 2019Bergen, Norway This meeting is a follow up of the 1st meeting (5 July 2018) and the 2nd meeting (18 October 2018) where inputs were collected in order to develop a Mission [...]
4th International Congress Hidden Hunger "Hidden hunger and the transformation of food systems: How to combat the double burden of malnutrition?"
27/02/2019 - February 27 - March 1, 2019 University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart (Germany) The 4th Congress Hidden Hunger is a continuation of the successful, international event series "Congress Hidden [...]
IFPRI Policy Seminar "Transforming food systems to deliver healthy, sustainable diets: The view from the world’s science academies"
14/02/2019 - 14 February 201912:15 pm to 1:45 pm (EST)IFPRI | 1201 Eye St. NW | 12th Floor Washington, D.C. 20005 The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), a global network of science academies, [...]
The First FAO/WHO/AU International Food Safety Conference
12/02/2019 - 12-13 February 2019 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia With an estimated 600 million cases of foodborne illnesses annually, unsafe food is a threat to human health and economies globally. Foodborne diseases in [...]
Establishment of the Global Action Network on Nutrition Labelling
06/02/2019 - One of the mechanisms to implement the commitments of the Nutrition Decade is the establishment of Action Networks. Following the first Global Action Network on Sustainable Food from the Ocean for [...]
2nd Global Conference on the One Planet: Sustainable Food Systems Programme
05/02/2019 - 5-7 FebruarySan Jose, Costa Rica The Sustainable Food Systems Programme of the UN One Planet network (10YFP) is a multi-stakeholder partnership with the aim to accelerate the shift towards [...]
Call for experts for the FAO/WHO Joint Expert Meetings on Nutrition (JEMNU) on nitrogen to protein conversion factors for soy- and milk-based ingredients used in infant formulas and follow-up formulas
05/02/2019 - The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on Nutrition (JEMNU) was established in 2012 to provide scientific advice to the committees of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme (i.e. Codex Alimentarius) or [...]
Promoting youth and women engagement and employment in food systems across the rural-urban continuum
04/02/2019 - 04 Feb 2019, 09:30 - 17:00 (CET)FAO HQ, Green RoomRome, Italy Over the next 15 years, it is estimated that about 1.6 billion people will reach working age in low and middle-income [...]
