PLATFORM | 2 NOVEMBER 2020 | VIRTUAL EVENT, ZOOM
“Transforming food systems: Implications for coordination and financing”
Opening Remarks
Head, Food and Nutrition Security, The Netherlands, and Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, Co-chair
United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on the Food Systems Summit
President and CEO, CARE U.S.A.
Associate Vice-President, External Relations and Governance Department, International Fund for Agricultural Development
Panel
President, Foods & Refreshment, Unilever
Head of Natural Resources Governance, Food Security and Nutrition, New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)
Director, Planet and Prosperity (DEVCO.C), Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development, European Commission (EC)
 Director-General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Head of the Human Development Department, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France
Global Director, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, The World Bank
Moderator
Jim Woodhill
Director, AgriFoodNexus Consulting, and Honorary Research Associate,
Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
The high-level event, Transforming food systems: Implications for coordination and financing, introduced the upcoming Food Systems Summit and raised key issues related to the Action Tracks, and explored their implications for donors.
Objectives
The objective of the high-level event was to explore the processes, coordination and financing needed from local to global levels to bring about a sustainable, equitable and resilient transformation of food systems, and to assess the future roles of donors.
The high-level event focused on critical questions related to the supporting, coordination and financing roles of the donor community, for instance:
