With over 130 hours of empowering content featuring more than 200 speakers and 14 ministers, the summit will include FAO MENA Agrifood Innovation Days to foster public-private sector engagement in transforming the region\u2019s agrifood systems. The FAO will hold two high-level sessions on Committee on World Food Security Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition, and Trade, Innovation and Technology as Enablers for Food Security.<\/p>\n
FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for the Near East, and North Africa, AbdulhakimElwaer, said the Innovation Days will bring cities and municipalities, academia, and civil society together in a common goal. He said: \u2018Innovation is a key driver \u2014 it helps in transforming our agrifood systems to be more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life for all.\u2019<\/p>\n
The Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens based in Vienna will also be at the Summit to, in the words of its CEO Monika Froehler, represent a \u2018wide environmental portfolio.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Climate change affects agriculture, food and the stability of food systems leading to hunger and poverty. Not all communities have the same capacity to adapt to climate change, and those in fragile areas and living in poverty are most vulnerable. As we work together to strengthen global food security and increase agricultural development aid, we must champion climate-resilient agriculture and smallholder farmers,\u2019 said Ms. Froehler.<\/p>\n
The summit will also host \u2018Making It Happen\u2019 sessions, bringing industry leaders together to focus on regional innovation and technology-enhanced agriculture and supply chain to make farming more efficient and sustainable. The sessions will explore end-to-end IoT solutions to drone and satellite monitoring, robotics, AI and supply chain with Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to optimise food production along the value chain and reduce waste.<\/p>\n
Empowering Community Change<\/strong><\/p>\n The summit\u2019s Generation Food stage will host workshops spanning topics related to food for the future global population. The interactive sessions will highlight expert views on how food can be more sustainably and healthily produced, improved, and consumed. The stage will also be home to the \u2018Thought for Food MENA Challenge\u2019 start-up showcasing ambitious entrepreneurs will vie for a cash award to progress their innovations.<\/p>\n The \u2019Food for Future\u2019 and \u2018Global Agritech\u2019 shows will see exhibitors display the technology and methodology for future food production and waste reduction, opening rich business opportunities. They will also feature the region\u2019s first FoodWise Challenge for schools and universities and see 170 young food system transformers from 11 countries pitch their solutions in the TFF 2022 MENA Agri-Food-Tech Challenge pitch their innovations for funding support.<\/p>\n \u2018Food for Future Summit and Global Agtech Expo will be a watershed moment in the evolution of public-private sector commitment to change,\u2019 said Trixie LohMirmand, Executive Vice President, Events Management, Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), the event organisers. \u2018It will be an empowering event inspiring a radical food security rethink by uniting the industry, governments and NGOs to ensure a food secure world.\u2019<\/p>\n
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