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Women’s Nutrition: Resilience and Recovery on the Road to 2030

June 8, 2021 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am

The Micronutrient Forum and Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Consortium will co-host Women Nutrition: Resilience and Recovery on the Road to 2030, a session during the World Health Organization Food Systems Dialogues: Health Talks.

Women’s roles in families and communities make them key drivers of development. Good nutrition is foundational to women’s wellbeing and resilience made painfully clear by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, collective efforts have been mainly directed to child nutrition and have failed to improve women’s nutrition.

In the lead up to the UN Food Systems Summit and Tokyo’s Nutrition for Growth Summit, this session will highlight the urgency for new and SMART commitments across food and health systems to build women’s health and resilience – for women, their families, and the broader social and economic development of nations.

Marti van Liere, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Lead, will guide us through an impressive line-up of speakers that includes:

  • Framing and Opening – Mrs. Aisha Buhari, First Lady of the Republic of Nigeria
  • Empowering female farmers to ensure access to healthy food and resilient farming communities – Cherrie Atilano, AGREA, Philippines
  • Food and health system interventions to improve women & maternal nutrition and foster resilience – Jess Fanzo, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Saskia Osendarp, Micronutrient Forum
  • The role of female entrepreneurship, access to healthy foods and women’s nutrition –  Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, AACE Foods and Sahel Capital Partners, Nigeria
  • Collaborations across Food and Health systems to improve nutrition – Michael Ojo, Country Director GAIN, Nigeria
  • Commitments for Women Nutrition in the Year of Action on Nutrition – Jemimah Njuki, Director for Africa, IFPRI
  • Anna Lartey, Professor of Nutrition at the University of Ghana, will close the session with an engaging conversation between the panelists and participants.

Details

Date:
June 8, 2021
Time:
8:00 am - 9:00 am
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Website:
https://hmhbconsortium.org/womens-nutrition/

Venue

Zoom

Organizers

Health Mothers Healthy Babies
Micronutrient Forum