Improving Diets and Nutrition through Food Systems: What Will it Take?

About the Event

IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy flagship publication arrives at a pivotal moment, as the importance of addressing food systems for better nutrition continues to gain global recognition. With United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 29th Conference of the Parties taking place in November, the SUN Global Gathering on the horizon and the Nutrition for Growth Summit 2025, this report offers valuable evidence and insights that can help guide policy and investment decisions for improving nutrition at the national, regional and global levels.

At the event, in addition to a presentation of the report’s key findings and recommendations by IFPRI’s leading researchers in diets and nutrition, a distinguished panel of European and country partner policy makers, and representatives of multilateral institutions will discuss the report. Expert remarks will focus on key challenges and opportunities for EU stakeholders to support the transformation of food systems to advance nutrition and healthy diets in low and middle-income countries.

Confirmed speakers include, amongst others

• Afshan Khan: Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement
• Danielle Resnick, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Daniel Westerink, Deputy Ambassador at the French Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
• Deanna Olney, Director of the Nutrition, Diets and Health Unit, IFPRI
• Guido Landheer, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature
• Inge Brouwer: Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Jeff L. Leroy : Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
  
• Jo Swinnen: Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute and Managing Director, Systems Transformation Science Group, CGIAR
• Kalle Hirvonen: Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Lawrence Haddad: Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
• Leonard Mizzi: Head of Unit, Directorate-General for International Partnerships, Sustainable Agri-Food systems and Fisheries, European Commission
  
• Marcel Beukeboom, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations Organizations in Rome
• Senalor K. Yawlui, Deputy Ghana Ambassador to the Netherlands
• Steven Collet, Deputy Director General at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature

Event hosts
This event and strategic discussion are co-organized by IFPRI, the Netherlands Food Partnership, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security, and Nature. The organizers were supported by the Director General for International Partnerships – Sustainable Agri-Food systems and fisheries from the European Commission and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, represented by the Special Envoy for nutrition and Secretary General of Nutrition for Growth Paris.

Date and location

The hybrid event will take place in Museon Omniversum (the Hague, the Netherlands) on Wednesday 6 November, from 13.00 to 17.00 hrs. For those participating in person it will include a (sustainable and healthy) reception for networking.