Food System Resilience through Integrated Natural Resource Management

In 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”) by 2030 with the intention of inducing collaborative efforts to Build Back Better , and transform the way society produces, consumes, and considers food. The Summit supports nutrient-rich Food Systems Dialogues, one of the five priority workstreams.

Against this background, the UN Environment Management Group (“EMG”), in close collaboration with UNU Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (“UNU-FLORES”) will organize a Food System Resilience through Integrated Natural Resource Management (7 June 2021) Nexus Dialogue as an independent dialogue of the Food System Summit.

In recognizing that food systems are simultaneously the cause- and effect of layered variables and interactions, the Nexus Dialogue seeks to investigate the accelerating effect of Integrated Natural Resource Management (“INRM”), underlined by systems-thinking. With the aim of detangling complexity, the Dialogue will focus on INRM’s impact, enhanced through Circular Bioeconomy (“CBE”) strategies , on reducing the risks of Poverty, Health, and Climate.

Key Remarks: Mr. Joseph Alcamo, Director of Sussex Sustainability Research Programme 

Panelists:

• Ms. Sasha Koo-Oshima, Deputy-Director, Land & Water Division, FAO
• Mr. Stefan Uhlenbrook, Strategic Program Director: Water, Food & Ecosystems, IWMI
• Mr. Johan Bouma, 2017 Alexander Von Humboldt Medal, Professor Emeritus, Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
• Mr. James Lomax, Programme Officer, Sustainable Food Systems and Agriculture, UNEP
• Ms. Birguy Lamizana, Programme Officer, UNCCD-Bonn 

For more information including the registration links, please visit the EMG's landing page here or the event page on UN Food Systems Summit here.