Food Security and Nutrition: More than two sides of the same coin?

This is the launch of the Global Nutrition Report in Norway with a discussion on how the findings and recommendations should influence Norwegian development policies and programs.

Mar. 9 2016

8:00 - 10:30

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Auditorium 4th floor

Ruseløkkveien 26, 0251 Oslo

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As we move into the post-2015 era of the Sustainable Development Goals, the world faces many seemingly intractable problems. Malnutrition should not be one of them. Countries that are determined to make rapid advances in malnutrition reduction can do so.

If governments want to achieve the SDG target of ending all forms of malnutrition by 2030, they have clear pathways to follow. There are many levers to pull, and the Global Nutrition Report provides many examples of countries that have done so. Tackling malnutrition effectively is also key to meeting many other SDG targets.

See the Global Nutrition Report 2015
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Program:

09:00 Opening

State Secretary Hanne Maren Blåfjelldal, Ministry of Agriculture and Food

09:10 Key note speaker

Presentation of the Global Nutrition Report 2015
Findings and recommendations by Lawrence Haddad, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

09.35 Panel

Panel for comments and advice:

• Isatou Jallow, Senior Advisor, New Partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD)
• Felix P. Phiri, Director, Ministry of Health, Malawi, Scaling Up Nutrtion (SUN) Focal point
• Sudhvir Singh, Policy Director, EAT
• Liv Elin Torheim, Professor Nutrition, Oslo and Akershus University College (HiOA)
• Ruth Haug, Professor Food security, Norwegian University for life Sciences (NMBU)
• Åse Bjerke, Senior Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Moderator: Eva Bratholm, Communication director, Norad

11.15 Summing up

Lawrence Haddad, IFPRI