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SEARCA participates in global conference on Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security

  • 29 May 2014

Dr. Saguiguit and Ms. Adoracion T. Robles, SEARCA Executive Coordinator, listen to the Inaugural Address of H.E. Hailemariam Dessalegn, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (below) at the IFPRI Conference on Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security, 15-17 May 2014, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [br] (Photos by Dr. Maria Celeste H. Cadiz, Program Head, KM)

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Represented by Dr. Gil C. Saguiguit, Jr., Center Director and two officials, SEARCA tuned in to global discourse on resilience for food and nutrition security at the sixth conference of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) toward the latter’s 2020 Vision “family” of conferences that explore emerging food policy issues to inform, influence, and catalyze action. The Conference on Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security took place on 15-17 May 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with more than 800 participants from 75 countries.

H.E. Hailemariam Dessalegn, Prime Minister of EthiopiaThe conference discussed a wide range of topics toward helping people, communities and countries cope with and recover from shocks like extreme weather events, natural disasters, financial crises, food price spikes, emerging diseases, and contaminated foods.

The global meeting had 12 plenary sessions including the inaugural session; 15 parallel sessions, 21 parallel side events, 17 rapid-fire presentations, and a knowledge fair that featured various types of publications, 33 videos, and e-posters by 66 contributors. It distributed 19 commissioned briefs covering the various topics of the conference, produced nine papers, and additional resources found in the conference website www.2020resilience.ifpri.info/.

IFPRI is the food policy research agency of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and is based in Washington, D.C. Its 2020 Vision is a world where every person has access to sufficient food to sustain a healthy and productive life, where malnutrition is absent, and where food originates from efficient, effective, and low-cost food systems that are compatible with sustainable use of natural resources. (Maria Celeste H. Cadiz)