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Every two months, on Wednesday morning at 8.15 CET, the A&FS Network organizes a short, informal session to share some thoughts for food with network members and anyone else interested. The Thoughts for Food sessions provide an overview of a few interesting news in the area of Food Systems and take participants on a deep-dive into two specific topics each time. There will also be a space for discussion and exchange with other participants. Join to feed your brain with some thoughts for food!
Next Meeting
Wednesday, 8th May 2024
Thoughts for Food 15
programme and participation link well be published shortly before the meeting
dates of further Thoughts for Food meetings: 3 July, 4 September, 6 November
Past meetings
Wednesday, 6th March 2024
Thoughts for Food 14
with presentation on fair market conditions
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Empowering African Producers & SMEs Through Stronger Enforcement of Competition Laws and Policies
Chilufya Sampa, Shamba Centre
Promoting Competitive Markets Through Effective Regulations: CUTS Interventions in Africa
Sajeev Nair, CUTS International
Wednesday,10th January 2024
Thoughts for Food 13
with presentations on ICT for agroecology in Tanzania and on digital solutions to improve farmers' market access
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ICT4Agroecology: a participatory research methodology for agroecological field research in Tanzania
Dr. Angelika Hilbeck, Senior Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich
Digital solution delivery - from farmers to markets
Samuel Munguti, founder and CEO of Shamba Pride
recording not available
Wednesday, 1st November 2023
Thoughts for Food 12
with presentations on an Integrated Climate Resilience Approach and on a Guidance for a Landscape Approach in Displacement Settings
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An Integrated Climate Resilience Approach from Southern Africa: Actions from the Field
Tiwonge Machiwenyika and Sandra Hakim, WFP Resilience and Climate Unit, Regional Bureau for Southern Africa
Introduction to GLADS – Guidance for a Landscape Approach in Displacement Settings
Jolien Schure and Paolo Cerutti, Senior researchers with CIFOR-ICRAF
Wednesday, 13th September 2023
Thoughts for Food 11
with presentations on the UN Food System Summit +2 (C. Blank) and on empowering youth (D. Magero)
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UN Food System Summit +2 : call for action – a push to transform food systems and accelerate action for the SDGs
Christina Blank, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN Organisations in Rome
Empowering youth – challenges and positive youth development programmes
Deogratious Magero, Youth Engagement Manager at CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International)
Wednesday, 5th July 2023
Thoughts for Food 10
with presentations by Caroline Nanzer (SDC), Jean-Noël Gentile (WFP) and Yvonne Diallo-Sahli (SDC) on the topic of durable solutions
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What exactly are Durable Solutions?
Caroline Nanzer, SDC Policy Officer on Triple Nexus in Niamey
Durable solutions, migration and livelihoods in Niger
Jean-Noël Gentile, WFP Country Director
Durable solutions – what’s next?
Yvonne Diallo-Sahli, SDC Advisor for Durable Solutions
Wednesday, 3rd May 2023
Thoughts for Food 9
with presentations on
rebuilding the dairy sector in Ukraine (V. Shutkevych) and on the 2021 Food Systems Summit (A. Gläsel / M. Egermann)
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Ukraine – Rebuilding the dairy sector after Russian occupation
Viktor Shutkevych, National Programme Officer at the Swiss Embassy in Kyiv
Opportunities and limitations of international mechanisms to foster just transformation. The case of the 2021 Food Systems Summit
Astrid Gläsel and Markus Egermann, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER)
Wednesday, 1st March 2023
Thoughts for Food 8
with presentations on
the potential of the 10 Elements of Agroecology (Edmundo Barrios) and on push pull technology (Amanuel Tamiru)
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Harnessing the potential of the 10 Elements of Agroecology to facilitate agrifood systems transformation
Edmundo Barrios, FAO Plant Production and Protection Division
Push-pull agricultural management technique
Amanuel Tamiru. International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
Wednesday, 11th January 2023
Thoughts for Food 7
with feedback on
the Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP15 (Christian Schwarzer) and a critical view on the SDGs (Tobias Haller)
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Feedback on the negotiations, key challenges, results and way forward after the Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP15s
Christian Schwarzer, co-founder of GYBN and Youth Ambassador for the UN Decade on Biodiversity
Sustainable for Whom? A critical view on the SDGs
Tobias Haller, Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern
Wednesday, 7th December 2022
Thoughts for Food 6
with presentations on Participatory research approaches (Amritbir Riar) and on Sufosec’s Agroecology Learning Journey (Sarah Mader)
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Agroecological Learning Journey 2021 – 2024: Results to date and next steps
Sarah Mader, SWISSAID Senior Advisor Agroecology and Coordinator of Sufosec Learning Group Agroecology
How to combine agrobiodiversity, nutrition, and smallholder farming with improving rural livelihoods and climate change adaptation?
Amritbir Riar, Senior Scientist, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
Wednesday, 5th October 2022
Thoughts for Food 5
with presentations on the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub (Stefanos Fotiou) and land systems for sustainability (Brigitte Portner)
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Post-UNFSS: UN Food Systems Coordination Hub
Stefanos Fotiou, Director, Office of Sustainable Development Goals
10 facts about land systems for sustainability
Brigitte Portner, Commuinty & Development Officer, Global Land Programme
Wednesday, 3rd August 2022
Thoughts for Food 4
with presentations on Organic versus Conventional Farmer Crisis responses (David Amudavi) and on Private Sector Capacity Development (Philipp Aerni)
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Organic versus Conventional Farmer Crisis responses: implications under COVID and Russian war in Ukraine
Dr. David Amudavi, Executive Director of Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT)
Institutional Framework Conditions for the Promotion of Private Sector Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation
Philipp Aerni, Director of the Centre for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CCRS)
Update on further recent developments
Wednesday, 1st June 2022
Thoughts for Food 3
with presentations on a playful approach of spreading the understaning of agreocology (Gurbir Singh Bhullar) and on IPES's special report “Another Perfect Storm?" (Nick Jacob)
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Snakes and Ladders on the way to Agroecology - playful approach of spreading the understaning of agreocology in India and Tanzania
Gurbir Singh Bhullar, Professor of Sustainable Agroecosystems, BFH-HAFL
IPES's special report “Another Perfect Storm?" on the factors which have made many parts of the world vulnerable to market shocks
Nick Jacob, IPES
Wednesday, 6th April 2022
Thoughts for Food 2
with presentations on the conflict in Ukraine (Friederike Greb) and on Food System Country profiles (Christine Chege and Chris Béné)
Wednesday, 9th February 2022
Thoughts for Food 1
with presentations on the Global Diet Quality Project (Alessandra Roversi) and on the Food Systems approach applied in Bangladesh (Rudolf Lüthi and David Bexte)
https://youtu.be/SGXO_6b22dQ
