In 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Guided by five Action Tracks, the Summit will bring together key players from the worlds of science, business, policy, healthcare and academia, as well as farmers, indigenous peoples, youth organizations, consumer groups, environmental activists, and other key stakeholders. Before, during and after the Summit, these actors will come together to bring about tangible, positive changes to the world’s food systems.
Food Systems Summit Dialogues offer a powerful opportunity for people everywhere to have a seat at the table at this milestone UN Summit. Dialogues bring together a diversity of stakeholders, including voices that are seldom heard, and provide an important opportunity for participants to debate, collaborate, and take action towards a better future. The ideas, solutions, partnerships and action plans generated in the Dialogues are critical to the Summit’s success.
UN Food Systems Summit 2021:
https://www.un.org/en/food-systems-summit/aboutJoin Denisa Livingston (Diné Nation), Appointed Member of the Champions Network of the UN Food Systems Summit, and Jane Lokomaika`ikeakua Au, Program Director, `Āina Momona to discuss transforming isolation in communities and Indigenous food systems.
Denisa and Jane Au will host an opening session to talk about the topic, and then invite guests to join breakout rooms for a longer discussion in small groups with some guiding questions. Each breakout group will be hosted by a facilitator and note-taker. Themes and messages from the smaller group discussions will then be brought back to share in the closing round. The contributions to the dialogue will be synthesized by Denisa, Jane and the group facilitators into a feedback form that will be submitted on the Independent Dialogue Gateway as official input to the UN Food Systems Summit.
(UNFSS Independent Dialogue Feedback Form:
https://summitdialogues.org/overview/official-feedback-to-the-summit/)
The dialogue will be hosted on Thursday, April 15th from 2 - 3:30pm Mountain Time on a zoom platform. Organizers will send you the Zoom details after you register.
