SOUTH ASIA DISCUSSION | 2021 GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT: TRANSFORMING FOOD SYSTEMS AFTER COVID-19
Also streaming live on Facebook.com/IFPRISAO
Co-organized by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)
The Global Food Policy Report 2021 focuses on ‘Transforming Food Systems After COVID-19’. The pandemic has upended local, national, and global food systems, and put the Sustainable Development Goals further out of reach. But lessons and momentum from the world’s response to the pandemic can contribute to food systems change. The 2021 GFPR, explores the impacts of the pandemic and government policy responses to date, particularly for the poor and disadvantaged, and considers what it all means for transforming our food systems to be healthy, resilient, efficient, sustainable, and inclusive.
IFPRI, South Asia is hosting a virtual launch to deliberate the challenges that the pandemic has highlighted on the vulnerabilities that the region must tackle to ensure a better food system for future generations.
Join us at this virtual launch event to learn about the COVID shocks and how the South Asian political leadership responded, to take policy actions to mitigate the adverse impacts and the significance of structural challenges to transforming economic and food systems. It will give us an opportunity, to share country specific learnings and enrich our regional perspectives.
Welcome Remarks
Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General
Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)
Overview of 2021 Global Food Policy Report (Global)
Dr. Johan Swinnen, Director General (Presentation)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Overview of 2021 Global Food Policy Report (South Asia)
Dr. Shahidur Rashid, Director South Asia (Presentation)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Development Perspectives
Dr. Binayak Sen, Director General
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)
Dr. Madhura Swaminathan, Chairperson
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and
Professor, Economic Analysis Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)
Dr. Dushni Weerakoon, Executive Director
Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS)
Dr. Swarnim Waglé, Chairman
Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), Nepal
Closing Remarks
Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra, Secretary, DARE & Director General
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
Moderator
Dr. Kalyani Raghunathan, Research Fellow
Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division (PHND), IFPRI
Read the highlights of the launch event here.