20121015_EDD12_Full_Agenda

TUESDAY 16
HIGH LEVEL PANELS
WORLD FOOD DAY | HIGH LEVEL PANELS
14:30 – 16:00 Resilience: The Nutrition Dimension
Auditorium A Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Action
#Nutrition
#EDD12
Tom Arnold, Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide,
Member of the Lead Group of the Scaling Up Nutrition – SUN Movement
Indu Capoor, Director, Centre for Health Education,
Training and Nutrition Awareness
Dr Klaus Krämer, Director Sight & Life, Royal DSM
Francesca Mosca, Director, Sub-Saharan Africa and Horizontal ACP
Matters, Directorate-General for Development and Cooperation –
EuropeAid, European Commission
Radhakrishna Krishna Pradhan, Program Director, Health, Nutrition
and Population Section, Social Development Division, National Planning
Commission, Government of Nepal
Paulus Verschuren, Special Envoy Food and Nutrition Security
for Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands
Almost one billion people are under-nourished across the world. If current
trends continue, an estimated 450 million children could suffer from stunting
– irreversibly affecting their physical and mental development potential – over
the next 15 years. Building resilient communities requires a focus on nutrition.
However, despite existing knowledge on ways to tackle malnutrition, policymakers
have yet to integrate nutrition into health, agriculture and food security
initiatives. The panel will showcase innovative solutions to address malnutrition,
identify which actions and policies – at global and European levels – get results
and why, and examine how to increase financial resources for nutrition globally.
Moderated by Shada Islam, Head of Policy, Friends of Europe
Organised by Concern Worldwide, Development Policy Forum, International
Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus – IF, Save the Children, United Nations
Children’s Fund – UNICEF, United Nations World Food Programme – WFP
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