Life stream announcement: Innovation systems for food security and nutrition: Tuesday 21 June
Innovation systems for food security and nutrition: Tuesday 21 June
TAP Secretariat is organizing a half-day symposium on Tuesday 21 June 2016 to discuss the findings of an e-conference which was held online from 18 April to 13 May 2016. This symposium will also discuss capacity development for improving human nutrition and health.
How to attend:
- The symposium will take place next week 21/06, from 2 pm to 5 pm (local time)
- The event will be live streamed in three languages (English, French and Spanish) in the following site: http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4139/icode/
- During the symposium you can send questions and comments via email to Tommaso Carboni at [email protected]
- It is also possible to listen to the conference later as the link will be active until almost 1 year after the Symposium.
- For those based in Rome, you are welcome to attend the event at the Sheik Zayed Center, FAO Headquarters (Rome, Italy).
- The event will be attended by FAO permanent representatives from different countries.
The Program:
Time | Session | Session format | Speaker |
14:00 – 14:10 | Opening |
| Karin Nichterlein, TAP Secretariat, FAO |
14:10 – 14:50 | Tropical Agriculture Platform’s Capacity Development Framework | Presentation and discussion | Christian Hoste, TAP Steering Committee Chair |
15:00 – 15:40 | Research Capacity Needs for Improving Human Nutrition and Health. Embrapa’s experience | Presentation and discussion | Ricardo Elesbão Alves and Edna Maria Morais Oliveira, Senior Researchers, Embrapa, Brazil |
15:30 – 16:15 | E-conference: findings | Presentation | Javier Ekboir, FAO Senior Consultant |
16:15 – 17:00 | General discussion | Plenary discussion | Cristina Sette (facilitator), FAO Consultant |
17.00 | Concluding remarks |
| Samy Gaiji, Chief, AGDR, FAO |