Global Partners’ Meeting on Ukraine crisis and its repercussions on major food crisis at global level.
Dates | Wednesday, 13 April, 2022 - 14:30 |
Event venue | Zoom |
Special Global Partners’ Meeting on Ukraine crisis and its repercussions on major food crisis at global level. gFSC members and FSC teams in countries are already registering food and fuel prices increase and decrease of import of cereals and other key items related to food security and production. This is very worrying especially for those food security crisis affected countries that depend on food imports. In addition the gFSC is highly concerned about the scarcity and competition of resources among the different food security crisis, hit also by the increase on cost of humanitarian food and agriculture assistance.
Meeting Chair: Davide Rossi, Programme Specialist, gfSC
Keynote Speakers:
Friederike Greb, Consultant, RAMAE Economic Markets Unit, WFP
Luca Russo, Senior Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer, Office of Emergency and Resilience (OER), FAO
Thomas Lay, East and Southern Africa Regional Humanitarian Director, Save the Children
Opening & closing remarks:
Abdul Majid, gFSC Co-coordinator (FAO)
Naouar Labidi, gFSC Co-coordinator (WFP)
Agenda of the meeting and presentations below.