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50th Session of the Committee on World Food Security

The 50th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will be held from 10 to 13 October 2022.

At CFS 50, the Plenary will endorse two key policy products: the Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment and the Policy Recommendations on Promoting Youth Engagement and Employment in Agriculture and Food Systems. Additionally, CFS 50 will discuss the 2022 State of Food Security and Nutrition report, review the work of CFS and its HLPE toward 2030, and kickstart the workstream on data collection and analysis for food security and nutrition.

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CoNGO Notes: For more ngodisarm.org. For more information on the NGO Committee on ngocsw.org. For ngocsw-geneva.ch.

Fortifying the Supply Chain – Addressing Premix Challenges

We are delighted to invite you to a webinar on Fortifying the Supply Chain – Addressing Premix Challenges which will take place on Wednesday 7 April from 14:00-15:30 Central European Time (CET).

Register here!

This webinar will examine how the fortification supply chain has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, including foreign exchange shortages, limited sources for raw materials, concentration of premix suppliers in specific geographies and huge increases in air freight and shipping costs, and container shortages due to COVID-19 related trade imbalances. Moving forward it will discuss key questions as to:

  • how vulnerabilities in the premix supply chain be addressed to make it more resilient to external shocks
  • what actions can be taken by vitamin and mineral producers and premix blenders to ensure a reliable, affordable supply of vitamin and mineral premix to support fortification programs
  • ways to strengthen and protect local access to premix, especially by small and medium-sized producers of fortified staple foods

The webinar will be moderated by Saskia Osendarp, Executive Director of the Micronutrient Forum and featuring stakeholders working to overcome these challenges from Stern Vitamin, BASF, Hexagon Nutrition, the GAIN Premix Facility and voices from Tanzania and Mozambique.

This webinar is co-hosted by the Micronutrient Forum, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), HarvestPlus, Hexagon Nutrition, Stern Vitamin and BASF

Kind regards,
Second Global Summit on Food Fortification team

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CoNGO Notes: For more information on the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development-NY, please visit ngocsd-ny.org. For more information on the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development-Vienna, please visit ngocsdvienna.org. For more information on the NGO Committee on Financing for Development, please visit ngosonffd.org. 

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