Brussels Development Briefings

On 15th June 2011, the CTA organized a Brussels Briefing on Nutrition security in ACP countries in cooperation with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), DG DEVCO of the European Commission, Concord and other partners. Close to 200 policy-makers from the European Commission, the Council and EU and ACP embassies followed the discussions live in the European Commission, with another 140 followers of the internet webstream.

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• Policy Brief: Improving nutrition in ACP countries
• Photos
• Programme
• Biographic information about the speakers
• List of participants
• a list of useful websites.

Video documentation

On this page, you can find the video documentation of all the speeches that were given at the conference. Simply click on their names to display the video. You can also watch the video interviews that we conducted with the different speakers, and download their PowerPoint Presentations.

Objectives of the Briefing and Programme: Isolina Boto, Head, CTA Brussels Office

Introductory remarks:

• Gary Quince, Director, Sustainable Growth and Development, DG DEVCOC, European Commission,
• Achille Bassile Kim, ACP Secretariat
• Rajul Pandya‐Lorch, Head of the 2020 Vision Initiative, IFPRI
• Michael Hailu, Director CTA

Panel 1: Nutrition security in ACP countries: key challenges and opportunities

Moderator: H.E. Brave R. Ndisale, Ambassador of Malawi

• Per Pinstrup-Andersen, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food & Nutrition, Cornell University, USA
  Key challenges and opportunities for achieving nutrition security [Executive summary][PowerPoint][Video interview]
• Howarth Bouis, Director, HarvestPlus, USA
  Linking agriculture and nutrition: Experiences with biofortification [Executive summary][PowerPoint][Video interview]
• Corinna Hawkes, Expert on Food policies
  Linking agriculture and nutrition: potentials of value chain approaches [Executive summary][PowerPoint][Video interview]
• Jethro Greene, Chief Coordinator, Caribbean Farmer’s Network (CaFAN)
  Farmer group experiences with improving nutrition through small-holder agriculture [Executive summary][PowerPoint]
• Questions from the floor and debate
  

Panel 2: Policies and actions to improve the linkages between agriculture and nutrition

Moderator: Rajul Pandya‐Lorch, Head of the 2020 Vision Initiative, IFPRI [Video interview]

Panellists:

• Boitshepo “Bibi” Giyose, Senior Food and Nutrition Security Advisor, NEPAD Secretariat
  Policy actions at the regional level: The African Nutrition Strategy [Executive summary][PowerPoint][Video interview]
• Policy actions at the national level:
• Dr Jose Graziano da Silva, Assistant Director General and Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, FAO
  The case of Hunger Zero Program in Brazil [PowerPoint]
• Faustin Musare, Chargé d’affaires, Embassy of Rwanda
  Rwanda nutrition policy [PowerPoint]
• Robert Mwadime, Senior Regional Nutrition Advisor FANTA-2, Uganda
  Advocacy, education and capacity development for improved nutrition [PowerPoint][Video interview]
• Questions from the floor and debate

Closing remarks:

• Dr Jose Graziano da Silva
• Michael Hailu, Director CTA