 Excellencies, distinguished delegates and participants, dear colleagues, a very good morning, afternoon or evening depending on your time zone, and welcome to the seventh issue of the FAO in Geneva Nutrition Dialogue Series. This year the series will be focusing on actions to address major obstacles to the advancement of agri-food systems, transformations for healthy diets, jointly organized with the Food and Nutrition Division, and in collaboration with the FAO Office in Brussels. My name is Dominique Bourgeois, and I'm the director of the FAO liaison office in Geneva, and I will be your moderator today. Before starting our event, allow me to share some of the usual details regarding the logistics and housekeeping for this virtual session. This webinar will be in English only with no interpretation. It will be recorded and will be later available on our website, along with the various related resources relevant to this session. It is scheduled to last for about 1 hour and 30 minutes. We have reserved some time towards the end of the webinar for Q&A session, and we ask you to please submit your question in the Q&A module, and then we'll try to do our best to answer as many questions as possible, either in writing, and this is a call to the panelists to monitor the Q&A module and answer some of the questions in writing or during the webinar. So that's all for the housekeeping, and I would like to take a moment to briefly introduce our speakers today. We are honored and pleased to have with us today a number of distinguished speakers who will be intervening on the topic of advancing human and planetary health, enabling healthy diets and mitigating climate change. And to that end, we will hear from Dr. Naima El-Khassir, WHO representative in Egypt, Dr. Nancy Aburto, Deputy Director of the Food and Nutrition Division at FAO at Qwanta, Ms. Penferro Chawinga, Nutrition Specialist from Malawi, Ms. Tanaza Sadaf, Portfolio Lead of Gain, Pakistan, Ms. Viviane Madweke, Climate and Health Program Coordinator of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, Dr. Sisei Sanamo, Senior Program Manager at the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia, and finally, Dr. Luce Maria de Reguille, Head of Multisectoral Action in the Food System Unit of WHO. So thank you very much for being with us today, and I look forward for a productive discussion. Excellencies, distinguished delegates and participants, their colleagues, before moving to our distinguished speakers, I would like to briefly introduce the topic of today's discussion. The production of today's diet is, as you know, putting significant strain on agri-food system, compromising the stability and resilience of natural resources and biodiverse ecosystem and contributing to climate change. You all know the statistics. For example, we know that it is responsible for one third of global greenhouse gas emissions, 80% of deforestation and 70% of freshwater use, and it is a main source of terrestrial biodiversity loss. Among the suggested action to effectively address climate change and reduce agri-food system environmental footprint, the shift towards healthy diet is considered central. In response, the government of Egypt as president of COP 27 in partnership with WHO, FAO, UN Nutrition, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Gain, the Scaling up Nutrition Movement and EAT, launched the initiative on climate action and nutrition, so-called ICAN, which aims to create a strong alliance between the nutrition and climate communities to implement policy action that simultaneously improve nutrition outcomes and support climate change mitigation and adaptation. Building on the ICAN, today we will share experiences from Malawi and Pakistan highlighting practical examples across agri-food systems that can simultaneously accelerate progress on climate change mitigation and nutrition. We'll then hear insights from Ethiopia on pressing issues such as drought floods and other climate shocks and all these events influence national policies on food systems and healthy diets. We'll now start with our speaker and I would like to introduce Dr. Naeema Al-Rassir, WHO representative to Egypt. Dr. Al-Gassir will start with setting the scene for our discussion today, linking the healthy diet and climate change nexus under the framework of the initiative on climate action and nutrition ICAN. Dr. Al-Gassir, dear Naeema, you have the floor. Good afternoon and thank you very much for this introduction. Mr. Dr. Barone, can I just would like to share my slide if possible? We tested it, now I don't have it. First of all, by the time I'm trying to fix this, I would like to bring our thanks as World Health Organization to be partners with many of you, especially FAO, in this very vital area of work and being invited to the nutrition dialogue series. I am trying to find my share. It's not working. If you want Dr. Al-Gassir, we can share the presentation on your behalf. Okay, okay. So we will do that. Okay, so here it is. Okay, it's from me, from my side or your side. So I know the control. I'm very pleased and honored to be here today. As you rightly said, Dr. Dominique, that we are having a challenge and the call for action is yet to be scaled up. However, loads of opportunities and loads of positive energy lately to respond to the complexity of this climate change. And I'm very glad that I have my co-colleague Nancy from FAO with me also complimenting, setting the scene, linking our advocacy to actions for initiatives on climate action and nutrition. Today, we know that more than 40% of our populations are vulnerable. They are women, they are children, they are refugees, migrants, and this is something that we would like to really look on how to address the complexity of these challenges. And it alludes to our behaviors also. This is something that I think more and more is coming, that we do have some statistics that shows that how we are impacted. Today, I mentioned about more than 30% of the world's population are vulnerable. But at the same time, we know that we are having to more than 100 million additional people getting into extreme poverty by 2030. So we have the poverty angle, but at the same time we are having, like for example, the premature deaths, 250,000 additional premature deaths per year by 2050. If we combine these two, and we are talking about saving lives, but at the same time we are talking about healthy lives for everyone regardless of the age, regardless of the color, regardless of equity, to ensure that the development is there, to ensure that we are meeting sustainable development goals, and at the same time to ensure that the economies are working. What's happening today also, we are having over 30% of our population are having micro-depit, we have micro-depitian population. Over 825, 28 million people are undernourished. So malnutrition is becoming big and big, and the complexity of our words not only of the impact of the climate change on the people, but also of the people's behavior on the climate. Two billion people are affected of micro-nutrients deficiencies, which I mentioned 30%. 676 million people are obese, and today we know obesity and the net nutritional style, and the A3 styles that we have is one of the major causes that brings because of how our nutrition intake and leads to the non-communicable diseases. An underlying cause in nearly half of all the deaths under children of five caused by malnutrition also. So if I go to the next slide, I think the control is with you. What is it with me? Okay, now this is what already the introduction was mentioned by Dr. Dominique in terms of what are we doing pushing the climate change to linkages and bi-directional between both nutrition and climate change. Food production has been very clear that we are having an issue on the food production due to levels of nutrients in the crop, affecting both human consumption and the feed of animals and we need to see the linkages between one health, human health, animal health, the planet, and at the same time the environment and water. Heat stress is affecting the animal production. It is affecting the cooling system, affecting the fish that migrates from one place to another. But also we are having availability and affordability of healthy diets has become as an issue. And how can we really look into ensuring that the healthy food and safe food are available? The weather has affected an increased loss and decreased price stability of the food. And that is if we know that there is a heat desertification in many countries, it's affecting food availability. But at the same time, the corpse would be affected. More than 40% of the world's caloric intake comes from just three crops, rice, wheat, and maize. I'm sure Nancy will be speaking more about them also. Less diversity and availability of the food means less resilience to climate change. And at the same time, more to be subjected to having diseases. The water, sanitation and hygiene is now becoming much more critical also in how we are handling of all angle in terms of the agriculture but also in terms of our behavior. I mentioned already about the increased drought and how we need to really look into the burden of the disease, access to the clean water, but at the same time the impact on our nutritional status. The food safety increased risk and intensity of the foodborne diseases. We know that the higher temperature is affecting the food safety. Increase hygiene risk in the storage and distribution. There's WTO and FAO, yearly we have the celebration and we are talking about food from the harvest or from the ones we planted to the table that we eat. And in terms of that, it means how we are behaving as individuals, communities, and institution to really make sure the food is safe and not affecting the human being or the animals. The economic and political stability has really shown more and more that it is affecting the food security and also for us we are talking about the health security and this is something that's been seen with the current situation globally. The next slide is actually going to talk about how can we really look into the ICANN and that's the whole thing. We are very proud that we came together as different stakeholders, United Nations, and I'm very pleased with the partnership with the FAO to really put the agenda with the Egypt COP presidency 27 to really make sure we have multi-sector, multi-discipline and at the same time that now we have a program of the global flagship. Leveraging not a new things but actually building on the current initiatives but at the same time bringing more attention to the global system transformation. We are contributing through initiatives of climate action for nutrition to SDG 2, SDG 3 and at the same time I'm actually putting more the gender equity at this water and definitely universal health coverage beside the zero hangar that I already mentioned. The co-leadership of now currently between WHO and the Egypt government especially with the COP presidency and Ministry of Health we are talking about our key partners I already mentioned FAO I would like to recognize GAIN GAIN has been a very active partner with us with the UN agencies besides scaling up nutrition UN nutrition which is very active group and EAT. It was launched on the in Sharma Sheikh during COP 27 I mean the ICANN was launched adaptation agriculture thematic day at COP 27 in Sharma Sheikh during the day of celebration I would maybe repeating myself adaptation agriculture thematic day next please now we are what do we want to do we know that the climate change is impacting food diets as I said health healthy and the access to the social protection but at the same time we are looking in terms what can we do as I mentioned where our aim is to achieve being catalyst mobilizing connecting different initiatives advocating scaling of the advocacy and at the same time engaging and we focused a lot on the youth woman the people who are having a voice and at the same time disabled to ensure that integration and nutrition climate action is actually integrated into most of the policies how do how well do this how well we do this through articulating a common compelling narrative around climate and nutrition this is something that we see more and more our partners come around and say it at the same time we are looking at the building a stronger alliances across all the entities for the nutrition and the climate communities and I'm very glad to hear that today we do have environmentalist with us and we are we are having people who are also not only nutrition background but also systems background and the other disciplines to develop and share evidence based on integrated nutrition and climate action and strengthening existing efforts to take action to address the gaps and we know the gaps where are they and I would like to bring next please since we are talking about the access the gaps we also need to bring always we are looking at not only at the central level but also at the local communities at the people that who are the heart of the of the the whole purpose of the bi-directional relationship between nutrition and the climate change when we address these priorities that I mentioned already we are hoping to accelerate our progress I already mentioned the four for engagement the being a catalyst and at the same time being advocate what are some activities that we are looking at we are looking at drafting refining and amplifying the narrative which would be shared and we hope that on second of May consultation more engagement between now and then should be there around climate and nutrition action we look as partners to strengthen nutrition and climate relationships that we have in terms of really to address how can we mitigate how can we have more climate friendly environment how can we reduce the unnecessary loss and how can we be contributing to the reduction of the greenhouse gases emissions that's affecting the climate change the integrating I can with UNF POP process already I can say that UAE which is going to be POP28 has already taken actions and moving forward establishing baseline for outcomes linking nutrition and climate change and I have been privileged to be listening to many nutritionists the past year working towards POP27 with very much dedicated that we do need to have a consistency on the baseline and again I would like to recognize our partners like Gains and others some for example that were very active identifying and sharing best practices community of practices I know that there are different entities have started I developed targets for nutrition and climate action we already have targets however how can we define it how can we define it how we can operationalize it and at the same time meet the goal of sustainable development goals one of the things that I wanted to share with you for examples with prior to POP26 the greenhouse the emissions in 2020 was associated in terms of sorry okay it was calculated that in order to implement the national determinant contribution the prior to POP26 it was announced that climate change is predicted to cost more than 178 trillions US dollars I'm talking about the negative impact of climate change and how can we address this and finally identifying gaps and facilitating new action to address today we are having so many people around and I'm sure each one of the individuals here have some experiences to share and we are very happy to hear the cases studies that will be presented by the panelists can I go to next please I think these are my two slides last two slides yes now high level impact that we are talking about is timeline that we have between now COP27 to COP28 we have had good experience, good support already when it was launched prior even to launch the regional countries in the region for example Pakistan is on board supported the ICANN and now what we are doing there I already mentioned to articulate the narratives which we are doing now to publish a report outlining the current situation and climate and nutrition action established baselines for key outcomes like COP28 develop targets to outline what can be done to advance climate and we are looking at out of the box based on evidence, based on research research and evidence that's coming from the work that everybody is doing on the ground how to strengthen the nutrition and climate partnerships engaging member states and non-state actors this has already started for example through this webinar I understand there are permanent missions on the line but at the same time we are going to move forward to have the hopefully on 2nd of May a discussion World Health Assembly where member states are actually the governing member states are making a decision and to share a report on a pathway for better nutrition and better climate actions referencing existing efforts and best practices that's another outcome that all of us are ambitious to have it by COP28 which will be held at United Arab Emirates begin facilitating new action to address gaps identified today, right before this session I had another call with the co-chair of the Alliance for Transmitted Action for Health who is Egyptian and who is actually senior official and actually the focal point for the ICANN to inform them about this and to encourage them to listen so we can really move the agenda right after WHO there are series of conferences like the FAO conference in July, the UNF CCC in the stock taking and FAO Geneva dialogue again in 2023 September and CFS October 2023 and hopefully we all be seeing each other at UNCCC I would like to mention I don't know whether my last slide is there but just to bring the message that we are here all of us together to really work towards refining and amplifying our narratives strengthening nutrition and climate partnership partnerships we have learned a lot and I want to really appreciate that over a short period of time because of the well because of the very effective entities available we managed to put with the COP presidency in 1997 to put this initiative and I'm very pleased that it has been taken also by the biodiversity conference held last year in Canada so we work together we are committed as World Health Organization I know Nancy is going to be complementing more in terms of the systems between the water between the food between the nutrition and the climate change and I would leave it to her including not to have waste that is going on to prevent hunger but healthier people and healthier lives thank you thank you so much Dr. Naima for your excellent intervention and for reminding us of the inextricable linkages between climate change and nutrition and for introducing the ICANN initiative and in particular the next steps towards COP 28 thank you very much for that Dr. Nancy Aburto as you announced already the deputy director of the Food and Nutrition Division in Tephyroette quarter Nancy will speak about the pathways through which climate and nutrition are interconnected and integrated action from agri-food systems Nancy the floor is yours thank you Dominique Excellencies, distinguished delegates, guests, colleagues it's really a great pleasure to be joining especially being able to speak with Dr. Naima she said some kind words about her appreciation for our partnership and really from an FAO perspective we're just so pleased to be working with WHO on this important initiative so I'm going to take the next few minutes to build off of what Dr. Naima was saying to describe some of the actions that the ICANN really aims to advance for catalyzing sustainable development so FAO with all the partners of the ICANN that Dr. Naima discussed has been exploring the literature on climate nutrition to bring together the evidence that we know about the inner linkages between these two topics we've specifically been looking at the evidence around pathways through which climate and nutrition outcomes can be interconnected so that we can effectively identify those solutions that can both address climate and improve nutrition now we found a wealth of evidence out there about agri-food systems about water systems about social protection systems and health systems that show that each of these systems has an impact on but is also impacted by both climate and good nutrition so if each of these systems are designed and if they're functioning well with nutrition in mind they will result in affordable and accessible healthy diets safe food that's free of pathogens and toxins that can cause disease clean water that's efficiently managed in order to provide sufficient amounts for drinking and for food production and for well functioning sanitation systems and good hygiene they'll result in enhanced coping strategies especially those that are protecting and promoting adequate care and services for women and children and they'll result in less illness overall and early detection and treatment for illness when it does occur and all of these outputs are in ingredients that are absolutely fundamental for good nutrition and if each of these systems likewise are designed and managed in a climate smart way they can significantly reduce those greenhouse gas emissions we've been talking about to preserve natural resources and reduce maladaptation and negative coping strategies that means that each of these systems has the potential to mitigate climate change but there are also numerous ways that each of these systems can be maintained to function in a robust way in the face of the reality of today which is we are already experiencing climate change and this is through integrated management of adaptive to increasing temperatures and to climate induced stresses and extreme events and these positive impacts on both climate and nutrition can result in a virtuous cycle a virtuous cycle of healthy people stronger communities stronger economies that are shock resistant and therefore able to drive inclusive sustainable development and Dr. Naima was talking about the sustainable development goals and we see the real potential for this virtuous cycle to help us drive forward the entire agenda 2030 now the evidence shows numerous specific actions through which these systems can exert their positive impact on both nutrition and on climate simultaneously and here I've listed just some of them and you'll be receiving those slides and you can look at this as Naima was noting before the COP 28 we'll be publishing some reports that will provide more detail on some of the examples I'm giving today but because today we're focusing on healthy diet let me just pull out the agri-food systems and dive a little bit deeper into actions across that system now agri-food systems include the range of actors and their activities as depicted on this slide from production systems and even before production systems those systems that they require all the way through the consumer the consumer behavior, how they are consuming food and disposing of food that is responsible for enabling healthy diets for all and this of course this healthy diet is that cornerstone of good nutrition that is needed for good health now these systems are highly implicated in improving and influencing climate change and Dominique already gave you the statistics but they're really overwhelming in a certain way and worth repeating and that is that global agri-food systems today are responsible for one third of all greenhouse gas emissions 80% of deforestation 70% of freshwater use and are the single greatest cause of terrestrial biodiversity loss it's really really impactful let that sink in but at the same time climate change is threatening the existence of the agri-food system and specifically the agri-food system for healthy diets so for example we know from the evidence that rising temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide reduces crop yields but it also really importantly reduces levels of nutrients in crops it reduces the suitability for livestock production and reduces aquatic biodiversity and alters wild fish stocks so all of that you can imagine results in a reduction of a diversity of nutritious foods for healthy diets also severe climate events cause agricultural and food losses resulting in immediate direct nutrient loss from the food supply but also resulting in that price instability that Dr. Naima mentioned and that reduces the affordability of healthy diets these climate events also increase food safety hazards and they result in the destruction of market infrastructure that can lead to loss of livelihoods increased cost of foods and that combination again amplifies the reduction in the affordability and accessibility of healthy diets and climate variability variability also leads to negative coping strategies such as reducing food intake reducing diet quality and the implementation of long-term actions that can have negative impacts such as removing children from schools now our increasing understanding of this interrelationship across the agri-food system of climate and nutrition has helped us to identify specific actions for dual purpose solutions and this is really the most exciting part of the presentation that I share with you today there's some examples that I want to share and there are only a few examples but I think they're important ones such as increasing the diversity of crop and animal production and protecting genetic biodiversity including that of fish and aquaculture species can protect natural resources it increases the resilience of agri-food system and increases the availability of diverse nutritious foods for healthy diets and this can be particularly impactful if we truly take a systems approach and we pair this with action on the demand side that accelerates the shift to healthy dietary consumption another example reducing food loss and waste can reduce the amount of land and resources needed for food production reduce inefficient use or waste of energy and water and other inputs for food production and can reduce methane from organic landfill waste while also simultaneously increasing the availability of nutritious foods for healthy diets now sustainable healthy soil management is another interesting example through reducing agriculture intensification and crop diversification and other measures we can have a potent mitigation measure because healthy soils can capture and maintain carbon and these same healthy soils provide nutrients to crops into the animals that eat those crops and thus increasing nutrients in our food supply chains another example is the implementation of food-based dietary guidelines that include environmental considerations that can guide policy development and behavior change across the entirety of the agri-food system these food-based dietary guidelines can also help support the alignment of policies and any alignment of policy across the agri-food system that incorporates biodiversity climate nutrition which right now is currently lacking can really catalyze that mutual reinforcing action for positive benefits for both climate and nutrition outcomes so our upcoming speakers today will share some more specific examples that they've been working on in the field but the ICANN really aims to catalyze, mobilize, connect and advocate for these types of actions that I've shared and the examples that we're here in just a few minutes and more examples that we're aware are out there today examples of actions that have the potential for dual benefit another important role of the ICANN is to encourage and support continued evidence generation so that we can learn more about these actions and the potential trade-offs across all of those systems I mentioned earlier and all of these individual actions we have to recognize that not everything we do will have the same positive benefit on all outcomes of interest and not the same positive benefit in all context but the more that we know the more easily we can weigh those options we can mitigate mitigate the potential risk and we can make informed decisions for the best possible impacts for addressing national priorities through addressing climate and nutrition outcomes simultaneously and one last thing we need to do is we need to elevate this conversation and link it to financing possibilities so that we can ensure that we can scale these solutions so that we can catalyze action for sustainable development and with that I'll close my presentation and thank you all for your time and turn it back over to Dominique. Well, thank you. Thank you so much Nancy for your very informative and excellent presentation and it is really fascinating to hear the new findings on systems pathways through which climate and nutrition interact the agri-food systems, water systems health system and social protection systems and you also clearly presented our climate change that interacts with the whole agri-food system in its sectors, especially on diet and I'm sure that as you said the most interesting part was the slides on the very concrete integrated actions which you proposed at the end and this will resonate very well with the case studies and the panel discussion which we will have today so thank you again Nancy and we'll now start with our country case study presentations and we'll start with first year from Miss Benfero Shawinga nutrition specialist from Malawi will present on the global environment facility project Jeff project in Malawi on enhancing the resilience of agroecological systems project so Miss Shawinga Benfero the floor is yours thank you Thank you so much and good evening everyone Benfero Shawinga nutrition specialist from Blythe I will take you through the climate change and nutrition mixes in Eras next slide please that's the basic project data and the goal of the project is to improve food and nutrition security of the rural communities in the targeted areas okay you have taken me back to the basic project data so the the name the previous slide please thank you the name is enhancing the resilience of agroecological system project and it started in 2017 and is expected to so the the goal of the project is to improve food and nutrition security of the rural communities and the targets in the targeted areas the project development objective is to enhance the provision of ecosystem services and improve the productivity and also improve the resilience of agroecological system for the vulnerable poor rural people there are specific objectives addressing the land degradation to addressing losses of agro bird diversity and also addressing climate change adaptation and also mitigation so there are several components with the project is working on the first is catchment conservation so erosion control investments such as vegetable control plants and also the gabions for tackling real erosion and also plugging the gullies respectively and these catchment conservation activities are labor intensive as such the project sort of giving the participants some incentives in order for them to participate fully so the farmers are given livestock as incentives Eraspe has facilitated the dispersion of small stock which include goats, chickens, ducks, rabbits and also ducks in the hotspot areas so far 7700 for the two farmers have benefited the small stocks received will help the farmers to ease access high quality protein but apart from that the the manual from the small stock will improve the youth health improving food security next and reforestation Eraspe is promoting planting of trees as a mechanism against floods and also mudslide in hilly areas and along the river banks Eraspe intended to rehabilitate and put under sustainable management 7,065 hectares of land so far more farmers are interested to plant fruit trees rather than the only trees because of the multiple benefits of which fruit trees give they are these trees include guava, mango and purple these are grafted trees whereby the farmers are planting their fruits and are also around the home state more than 10,000 trees have been planted so far next slide please as one way of improving well as one way of reducing deforestation Eraspe is also promoting use of energy efficient food stores this is helping farmers to manage the available fuel that they have and also as the fuel that they have is taking long for them to use the time that they are saving the farmers are using the mothers are using that time to do other activities for example they have enough time to care for their young ones and also the mothers they feel comfortable to prepare a number of dishes at household level hence improving deforestation so far 5,670 households are using these energy efficient food stores next and biodiversity climate change brings droughts and also high intensity for example this is evident in Malawi this year where by other areas I have received a lot of rents and other areas are receiving for experienced drought Eraspe is promoting production of indigenous crops which have proven to be droughts and also hiring these are indigenous crops in the hybrid varieties which farmers are planting these include millet yams, cassava, sweet potato cow peas, pamparanats and pigeon peas these crops are helping the households to be full secure in cases of drought booking demonstrations are done on how to utilize the indigenous crops to help the households utilize the use better for improved nutrition next slide the midterms survey report has revealed that a minimum of data diversity for women has improved from 3.2% to 40.7% and also 65% of the households have reported an improvement on the data patterns and also the mean months which the farmers were experiencing will have reduced from 6 to 7 months in a year to at least 4 months in a year now we go to the lessons let's please environmental conservation through catchment management is assisting to preserve the water as the boreholes used to dry up but this time around the boreholes are not drying up hence that helping the mother the caregivers and also the mothers to save time which they used to work long distances in order to fetch for water and that time they are using to do other activities like raising bucket gardens and also taking care of livestock and also the scarcity of water was one of the limiting factors for the households to have the bucket gardens but since they have water throughout the year they are able to have bucket gardens all year round nutrition status of the household has also improved and clearly combined the efforts at community level in protecting the environment through various interventions and having their benefits trickling down to the community where they are benefiting at individual level through increased access to food and also improving their nutrition status. For illustration using fruit trees has multiple benefits and this is encouraging many farmers to plant more trees in their gardens and also around the homestead hence improving their access to fruits whereby improving their access to micro nutrient rich foods. Another lesson is that integrated homestead food production has helped farmers to have access to nutrient rich foods all year round and hence improving their dietary patterns. Lastly cooking demonstrations and food dispensers help their farmers to diversify their diets better. Next slide please. That's a picture showing farmers planting fruit trees. Next slide. That's one of the farmers who benefited from the ducks and the ducks have multiplied to the extent that he's selling the ducks to get other nutritious foods that they can't produce. That's one of the personal beneficiaries in Colombia. Next. Production of cookstores in progress whereby we are promoting both two types, the rocket ones and also the move forward. That's a few efficient cookstores being adopted by farmers. So you can see that others are opting for the inbuilt ones, the rocket ones while others are using both the two adapts of stoves. That's a cooking demonstration in progress whereby if not during the cooking demonstrations farmers are encouraged to use the energy saving cookstores. And the last slide please. That's a cooking demonstration in the underway whereby even the caregivers are encouraged to bring their children so that they can enjoy the food that they are learning. Thank you so much for listening. Well, thank you. Thank you so much Miss for your intervention and for being very concrete on the variety of activities of the Jeff projects you are running in Malawi for example in terms of catchment conservation, reforestation but also promoting the use of energy efficient cookstores by diversity conservation diversification of livestock production and thanks for highlighting the resulting significant impact on nutrition and for drawing lessons. This is exactly what we are looking for in the context of these dialogues. Before I move to Miss Sadaf, I'd like to remind you that there is a very rich and active discussion on going in the Q&A and so thanks to our speakers for interacting and for our participants to engage. And we'll now hear from Miss Tanaza Sadaf of Gain Pakistan who will speak about greening the dairy sector in Pakistan. Tanaza, the floor is yours. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you very much. I'm Tanaza Sadaf portfolio representing Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and Gain increasingly seeks to advance a joint focus on the environment and the nutrition to successfully alleviate malnutrition in a one of such projects of Gain is towards healthy diets from sustainable food system is greening the dairy sector in Pakistan. So I will share an overview and background of these projects that Gain is implementing in Pakistan. So all of us know that the climate change and the food system are interdependent and climate change can negatively impact the food system and the food systems play a role in driving the climate change. So the development of the greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture including the livestock which is also a major source of local water and air pollution. So this makes it imperative to prepare for and mitigate the effects of the climate change on food systems and vice versa. So Gain looks at its program using the lens of the environment. It identify and promote the innovative technologies that minimize the resource use of food production, processing and sale and it also support the payers to reduce the food losses and the waste. So having said that I will share the challenges related to climate change, food insecurity and malnutrition in Pakistan. Pakistan is one of the victims of the climate change and it is eighth most vulnerable country to climate change according to the global climate risk in that and in 2022 it became evident that there was a climate to enhance the environmental sustainability and resilience when the country was hit by a series of floods. One third of the country was under water, infrastructure was heavily damaged, more than half of the country's crops were washed away. So it caused a serious threat to the food security and nutrition. It cost about 15 billion USD and damages and the same amount in the economic losses. And the food price is raised up, lost incomes increased due to the impact of the flood. So the huge loss served as a wake up call for Pakistan to seriously invest in mitigating the climate change and increasing resilience to it. So along with the climate change issue, the Pakistan also faces serious challenges when it comes to the malnutrition and ensuring the access to the healthy diets. 37% population of Pakistan is food insecure and it is ranked as 92 among 16 nations on the global hunger index. And it is also one of the highly malnourished countries with 40% of the children under 5 are stunted and 14% of the adult women are underweight. And micronutrient deficiencies are also widespread. A large population is deficient in iron, zinc, vitamin A and vitamin D. So these alarming facts and figures pressing the need for the country to find ways to simultaneously address malnutrition and climate change. So keeping the background in view, again designed a project for greening the daily sector in Pakistan and daily sector was selected because it is one of the potential areas to work in Pakistan and the livestock sector alone contributes 12% of Pakistan's GDP. And Pakistan is among the leading government producing country, it is ranked fourth in the world with the gross production of 62 billion liters of milk. So despite that it is the fourth largest milk producing country, it could not meet its domestic need and the daily imports climbed up to US dollars 140 million in 2019. So daily products are the source of macro and micronutrients including protein, calcium and vitamin D and consuming dairy is associated with significantly lower rates of the crop. But at the same time the dairy sector is also posing a number of environmental challenges like livestock are a major emitter of greenhouse gas emissions and choose considerable amount of land and water and the impacts are magnified with high level of loss and waste. Waste from dairy sector is considerable and way is one of the ways that can cause serious damage to the local ecosystem. So this slide is showing the estimated environmental footprints of the current dietary patronage in Pakistan. So you can see here in these graphs that the dairy sector that is showing in the pink color is contributing as playing a large role in the per capita greenhouse gas emissions in terms of land use, water use and eutrophication. So dairy thereby provides a critical solution space to act upon these two main areas in Pakistan. So our focus is on the way water, way is one of the byproducts produced by the dairy and generally the 10 liters of the milk is processed to produce 1 kg of cheese and during this process 9 to 10 liter of the way is wasted. So direct disposal of the way in the environment creates serious pollution problems and it is one of the strong organic effluents that can pose a risk to the environment if not properly managed. And it also poses direct impact on the quality of the soil and the future perspectives of the agriculture produced when raised into the agriculture field. And in Pakistan the dairy industry is currently producing large amount of way. It varies from 10,000 liters per day up to more than 100,000 liters per day, which has led to considerable environmental problems due to its high organic matter content. And according to an estimate about 30% of the total way produced is exclusively subjected to production of way powder by few of the large industry players. However, the 70% way water is dispensed to the disposal process through different means. So with potential high environmental cost and representing lost nutritional value and embedded emissions. So to tackle all of these interconnected challenges in view the project gain access to better dairy, cleaning and scaling project was started in Pakistan by finding opportunities to reduce waste while creating innovative and the desirable dairy products for the local population. So cheese can be made using the pasteurized milk and the cheese making process involves sequential steps like acidification coagulation, separation of curd and during one of the process when the curd is separated a lot of the water is produced. Very few dairy companies in Pakistan are converting this way into the powder form of the way protein but most of the dairies are wasting this way and draining it out into the fields or in the server system and few of them are also selling it to the farmers who are using it as a supplement in the fertilizers as well as in the animal feed. So we intend this way water is good source of protein. It is loaded with the natural protein so we intend to repurpose this way water and bring it back to the food value chain by converting this way into a portable, healthy and nutritious string. So it will contribute towards reduction in the food waste and positively creating impact on the environment. It will also increase the servings for the consumer and it increase the revenues for the processors and the ingredient providers. So the two main objectives of the project number one is increased acceptability and affordability of safe and nutritious milk based products and the second is the market development of the dairy value chain and increase the profitability of the local processes. Contribute towards STG2 in terms of achieving the food security and improving nutrition contributes to STG8 sustainable economic growth and it also contributes to STG12 in terms of reducing the food waste and contributing positively to the environment. So a sharp approach was devised and used to hit the sweet spot using the competencies of the diverse partners considering the key constraints like the sustainability healthfulness, affordability reliability and profitability improved. So the partnership brings together private companies, government agencies, civil society organizations and universities to co-develop the dairy products that are affordable to low-income consumers in Pakistan. So a consortium of partners joined this project like local members of the Sun Business Network. Sun Business Network is a private sector of the scaling up nutrition that is primarily comprised of the local food value chain SME. So dairy companies joined this project and then the European members are the food ingredients provides the technical assistance on the product formulation. Gail provides expertise on the fortification with vitamins and minerals to address the local micronutrient gaps while ensuring a low retail price point per serving. So public institutions are also on board to ensure the alignment with the government goals and schools as a channel for distribution were identified and included in the project based fundamental recycling. So through the sharp approach the partnerships develop dairy products that address micronutrient deficiencies while remaining affordable, sustainable and preferred by the consumers. Gain also has developed our environment assessment tool to support and empower the Gain's program cleaning ambition. It triggers the programs to consider 10 environmental impact levers like the environmental compliance, the energy, emissions, land use, etc. So the tool was also applied to this project and in a co-learning workshop attended by partners the potential environmental benefits shown here in the green arrows and the risk potential risks shown here in the orange arrows were identified and mitigation actions were explored and discussed and these environmental parties were used to identify areas for mitigation action to help build and monitor the environmental dimension of the sustainable business case and the project narrative. So this is the composition of the weight ring that I am talking about. It is 50% of the fresh weight with 3.5% weight protein powder to increase the protein level. 5% sugar is added for acceptability of the taste, 1.9% frame, 38% fat, then premix of containing vitamin A, D, zinc and iron, flavors and color and water to meet 100%. And on the right side you can see the nutrient and the calculated values of this product and the value of the protein content is not mentioned here. So this is the value of the drink. So a few of the lessons that we learned from this experience to aid future endeavors in establishing sustainable partnerships that not only enhance the access to nourishing food for low income consumers but also positively impact the environment. So the project demonstrated the importance of utilizing waste here as a resource not only to reduce the environmental impact but also to create a new product. So the innovation was linked with the revenue generation and new streams, new products that attracts the attention of the private sector and then the effective collaborations and the engagement with the relevant stakeholders, public and private sector and consumers is the key to create a space and demand for the new product in the market because it is not sustainable and the product would not be sustainable and prospects of viable business case for the involved commercial partner is essential to gain the attraction and industry here in Pakistan consider this waste as a potential threat to the environment. They understand it and they are aware of its implications on that and so there is a lot of potential to scale up this project in Pakistan. So a few of the next actions we have planned several actions to strengthen the environmental dimensions of the project like the percent of waste reduction to this project and its possible impact on the environment we intend to measure that and the possibility to recycle the UHD packaging in the institutional settings will be assessed and the consumer facing material and the communication with messaging on the environmental sustainability will also be added. Another action that is financial business case for the private sector we are going to develop that to showcase the revenue generation by converting waste to value and another action is to create a demand for waste to value approach in the daily value chain explaining the triple benefit. Number one is nutrition, second is environment and the second is business or the revenue generation. So I will conclude my presentation by saying that the project can contribute to the broader discussion on the integrated programming on climate change and nutrition by highlighting the real mean co-developed solution of transforming waste into nutritional value then a systematic process for analyzing environmental impact of food value chain in order to identify areas for intervention and collaborative problem solving involving the local private sector players who need to own the solution and integration of high income and deep private sector experts like Arla Foodin-Privid here to support the knowledge and the technology transfer. Thank you very much. Thank you so much Miss Sadaf for your intervention for of course also for reminding us that Pakistan is among the most vulnerable countries to climate change and its dramatic consequences as we have seen in 2022 in which so many people to date have to cope with also for highlighting the food insecurity situation the country is facing but also then for presenting the effort made in dreaming the dairy sector which is one of the major sector in Pakistan and in the world but which has of course environmental cost and nutrition benefits. Solutions you gain and a variety of partners have co-created to avoid waste but also to create new products also drawing and you have also been drawing lessons on the way forward so thank you very much for this excellent presentation very informative one and we know here from Dr. Cissai Sinamo with senior program manager at the Secota on the Secota declaration federal program delivery unit and son focal person at the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia. Dr. Sinamo will speak about the case of the Secota declaration which aimed to end stunting in children less than two years in of less than two years in 2030. Dr. Sinamo the floor is yours. Thank you Dominique for the kind introduction. I will be speaking on integrating climate change and nutrition action using the case study from the Secota declaration. Next please. As you know, Ethiopia has been making a significant progress in terms of improving the socio economic development however we are still facing a triple burden of malnutrition and based on the study that was the cost of anger study back in 2013 Ethiopia loses 65% of the GDP as the result of stunting which is equivalent to 4.5 billion dollars every year which is also results into lost workers productivity, morbidity, mortality and also poor performance and school repetition and we are also cognisant that most of the impact from the climate change and vulnerability in Ethiopia is one of those countries that are vulnerable because our economy is also heavily dependent on agriculture next. So considering the global climate change and also extreme weather this is also happening in Ethiopia and this is demonstrated by the frequent and intensity of some of the disasters such as drought, rainfall variability, flood and storm and also recurrent drought including flooding that also affects the food production and also loss of some of our staple crops as well as also agriculture and also it affects as it was earlier mentioned in terms of the quality and the quantity of productivity of the livestock in the west wetlands and also associated ecosystem services including the biodiversity and also the incidence of like low cost which also results into agricultural productivity and also a significant reduction in water table that also affects the streams the rivers, the ponders that are used for consumption as well as also education and at the end of the day it results into the chronic as well as acute malnutrition through the various mechanisms next. So for reasons of that the government has developed a wide range of policies and strategic documentaries we have the food and nutrition policy, the nutrition sensitive agriculture, the food and nutrition strategies, the productive safety net, the school year the nutrition and also other policies and programs enabling us to improve the food and nutrition situation through the climate smart interventions. In the past years also we went through the food system transformation formats where we developed 22 game changing solutions under six clusters including ensuring availability and accessibility of safe and nutrition goods and also promotes the sustainable consumption of healthy safe and nutrient diet throughout the life cycle and also integrating the policy making systems to promote production and productivity. So among these specifically the cluster three interventions focuses on reducing environmental degradation integrated landscape watershed management as well as also the great green legacy initiative which consists of a massive tree planting initiative next. The other clusters also address enhancing digital technologies and innovations through the food system and also accessing to market and market information infrastructure and specialization and of course the last one is managing and ministering risk and protecting the health especially those who are vulnerable to shock drought and also disasters next. So when I come to specifically the SAKOTA declaration which is also one of the game changing solutions in the food system transformation. This has been unveiled in 2015 with 15 years roadmap provided in three phases. The first phase we call it the innovation phase which extends between 2016 and 2020 which is a learning by doing phase development. The second phase we call it the innovation phase which is implemented in 40 waradas and based on that learning currently we are in the expansion phase reaching 240 waradas which are high stunting burden. Warada in Ethiopia case is equivalent to districts to other countries and where 10 sector ministries are working together to address the SAKOTA declaration is for the ending stunting goal. During the implementation we have tested six innovations and these innovations have been successful and now we are scaling up these innovations in 200 waradas next. As you know malnutrition work requires a lot of multi sectoral interventions and from the Almata declaration one of the key recommendations is multi sectoral intervention also to address the social determinants of health. So as it was indicated in the Lancet series the primary health care requires an multi sectoral intervention so the work that we are bringing to the SAKOTA declaration also contributes to the improved health outcome next. So research also shows that the socioeconomic status educational level as well as also the health care service provision and also the social determinants are also the key factors for improving health outcome so we know the work that we do through the SAKOTA declaration we are cognisant that also it does improve to the sales outcome because it addresses the household safety education quality, health care, social and also economic stability. Thank you next. So we did the innovation phase of the SAKOTA declaration in Forty-Varadas, Intigra and Amhara region and we have been able to demonstrate a significant reduction stunting and also prevention of child diseases as well as also a version of stunting among over 100 nearly 110 thousand standard cases have been averted through the interventions that we did between 2018 and 2021 and now we have moved to the scale up phase expansion phase next. So the expansion phase currently covers 240 districts as I have said earlier close to 28 million people and over 1 million pregnant lactating women and over 2 million children under group with a total investment need of over 1.8 million the government is also making a treasury commitment on annual business between 10 to 15 million USD to support the expansion phase. As you can see in the map the geographic distribution is across the country and the dots in the map is the concentration of the standard cases of children across the country. So that is the impact of the climate change as well as also the impact on the nutritional outcome next. So in terms of the interventions what are the priority interventions that we are implementing to integrating the climate change into integrating nutrition into the climate change action. The first one is increasing production productivity and consumption of locally available nutrient dense foods. The second one is increasing all scale livestock ownership including poultry, goat milk and others. The third one is expanding climate smart irrigation potential to improve water use efficiency and extend growing seasons. And also the fourth one is improving climate resilient water supply quality and quantity in household health facilities in the school which we call it as an institutional wash. The fifth one is improving access to hygiene sanitation facilities and also addressing open dedication. The sixth one is improving the delivery of direct nutrition interventions through the public health system. Environmental and social safeguard and also climate change issues are considered as an integral part of the Sokota declaration program and we consider all of the environmental and social safeguard issues across the various projects. In one of our projects we are working together with the Africa Development Bank which we call it the multi-sectoral approach for stunting reduction project. It has four components and one of the component is the climate infrastructure development for effective service delivery. Those service deliveries are through irrigation, health facilities as well as also water supply and also the agriculture extension services. So the climate resilient infrastructure constructions that are being implemented under this program have directly mitigating the climate change through reducing the greenhouse emissions. For instance one good example is replacing diesel pump generators used traditionally for water supply scheme. Now we are completely replacing them with solar energy. That will completely reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And also to avoid an intentional harm to the people the physical environment and also climate resilient infrastructure constructions we are doing this by conducting site specific environmental and social risk screening and climate risk screening of all sub-projects that are executed under this program. So whatever we do the water irrigation and also other infrastructure we do a site specific environmental and social screening. We conduct water shade management which also boosting now the water resource provision service from the proposed surrounding ecosystems. For instance for irrigation and also drinking water supply. We are also conducting a soil and water conservation structure construction management by community contribution. Communities also do tracing and also other activities so that it can re-habitate the degraded the degraded catchment which mitigates and also adapts to the changing climate. And also we are also using the water treatment technologies in areas where surface water or groundwater is not adequately available to provide for the communities using the technologies like the new filtration next. Dr. Sinamo can I please ask you indeed to wrap up quite quickly. Thank you. Yeah, this is my last slide. Thank you Dominic. So in conclusion the government of Ethiopia is committed to address the impact of climate change on nutritional outcomes and currently the government is leading leadership providing leadership and coordination for bringing 10 plus sectors to work together to reach the climate change impact communities. And also we are sustaining our commitment to efficiently implement the SAKOTA declaration and also protects the national environment and efficiently utilize available natural resources. And also we are also promoting the production access and also consumption of diversified affordable nutrient foods. As you know, Ethiopia is also implementing the green legacy which is a massive tree plantation which currently overpassed the 20 billion target which also brings opportunity for planting trees to protect the environment as well as have a nutritional value boost that link nutrition action to climate change and contribute to food and nutrition security. So using this opportunity I will welcome to all our stakeholders to join the government of Ethiopia in scaling up nutrition resilient climate resilient nutrition action. Thank you. Over to you. Well, thank you. Thank you so much Dr. Sinamo and this is exactly what we are looking for a very concrete experience indeed describing the context the effect of climate change on the nutritional status situation in Ethiopia and the related policy response by the government. Also, thank you for introducing the food system transformation roadmap with a special focus a specific focus on the Secota declaration and the government of Ethiopia innovative commitment to and standing by 2030 and the related actions you and the government have taken this is indeed excellent as you can see colleagues we have a lot of very informative and presentation informative presentations today. No, I will give the floor to Vivian Madueke the climate and health program coordinator of the global alliance for the future of food gas to facilitate a reflection on the case studies presented and I think the discussion is so rich that I think would be great if you the panelists and the attendees could consider extending a little bit your participation in this webinar by say 10-15 minutes so that we can indeed have some reflection and then move into some final consideration by a colleague from the WHO noting that in parallel to the very rich conversation there is also a rich exchange in the Q&A module so over to you Vivian, thank you Thank you very much Dominique and good morning and good afternoon to everyone on the call today I am Vivian Madueke and I represent the global alliance for the future of food and we are a strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations and based on the previous presentations we acknowledge that food and nutrition or our food systems are impacted by climate change both as a victim but also as a solution so we must address climate change in tandem with nutrition to make sure that we get the sustainable development that we are looking for. With that in mind I would like to invite the three most recent speakers starting with Dr Cisse you touched on some of the present issues like drought floods and stunting in the country and it would be interesting for you to share how the country has managed these various trade-offs and priorities especially with limited resources so I am curious if you can share with us some of the strategies that have been successful with the government but also some of the challenges that you have experienced with balancing these various priorities Cisse Dr Cisse with us Thank you so much Vivian I think in terms of the existing opportunities the first thing is the policy environment you know for a country to be successful and address these kind of challenges there needs to be a very clear policy that links climate change, nutrition as well as also the other challenges that we face in the country so that is number one the second one is the government ownership and commitment to translate the policies into action I think policy implementation is very key for in our case for instance we have the food and nutrition policy that is now being translated through the food and nutrition strategy and also the SAKOTA declaration that is you know going down in the community and also the government own initiative to finance its own initiative for instance the government allocates you know we have limited resource but from that resource we are also allocating our own resources from a treasure resource I think that is another contribution the other one is the opportunity is the national also initiative I think the green legacy initiative also giving us an opportunity to plant you know fruit trees you know that is a huge massive plantation so that it also will contribute to address food and nutrition initiative the other is also the global movement I think as I have said earlier the global food system transformation the icon and also the other global you know initiative could really positively advance and contribute to this one I think in terms of the challenges similar to other countries it is also facing the escalating the food price is one of the challenges to address food nutrition the drought the East African drought is also affecting our country and that is also another thing of course we also went through a difficult period when we went through the past two streets has been a conflict in Ethiopia that is also affecting us I think also the unaffordability of LZ diet LZ every time you know the food price is going up and that is making very difficult for people to afford and finally is also the investment that is being available to translate these policies strategies into action both from national level as well as also global communities investment towards improved nutrition is minimal so those are few of the challenges thank you Vivien Thank you very much Dr. Cisse you say it's important to have policy environment in place, government ownership financing and also some of the and also the global movements like I can and the food system summit as well you reflected on the key challenges you faced food prices conflicts and investment I'm curious if you can throw more light on your NDCs I know that the Ethiopian government submitted the last NDC in 2021 and given that this year is a global stock take I'm curious to know if there will likely be an NDC revision and also will healthy diets be included in the NDCs if you can just briefly in a minute to talk about this. Thank you so much Vivien last year with Co-presidency in Egypt when we joined that we have also went with our position paper on the climate change and nutrition action so the government has already taken nutrition very seriously during the COP 27 and we hope that in the NDCs it will be considered in the upcoming COP 28 we have already demonstrated a very clear commitment in the past year so we are working closely with the team and we hope that that will happen for COP 28. Thank you Thank you very much Dr Cisse and for sharing that and as he mentioned policies are important public policy is a lever of change and the NDCs and other policies is an opportunity for governments to integrate climate action and nutrition. Now over to you Ms Sadafe you shared very good insights about how wastes can be utilized for nutrition and I will start with the question that was posted in the chat with with dairy being an example what has been the acceptability of these products and how can we scale this intervention to other products and other value chains that has waste and we can utilize the waste for nutrition. Over to you Sadafe. Thank you very much yeah this is a new product in the market not available so far so we held about three testing feedback sessions and we held the testing with the children and the adult population so after every test we improve the recipe in collaboration with our international partner and the local data is engaged with so in the last acceptability test we distributed the samples among the 300 students of our school and very positive results we got from that so now this is I think in our environment we have formulated the recipe as per the taste profile of the population so coming to the second question that scaleability point of view yes as I said earlier that there is a large potential to work on the dairy industry and most of the deities who are manufacturers are just wasting it even the well established dairy who is capturing the 46% market share in the cheese production is wasting it and not using it effectively so there is a large potential to engage those deities to convert this waste into and to develop a new revenue stream for them so this is very interesting and I think we do understand that there is no one size space for all so we are providing the customized solution and recipes in collaboration with our international partners as per the capacity, ingredients and equipments of the deities that they have so it is very easy for the deities to adopt the solution and I would also like to mention that this project is also implementing in two other countries like Tanzania and Ethiopia and we also received some interest from deities there that they are interesting to convert this way water into a nutritious and healthy drink so overall the project has the potential to scale up and replicate in Pakistan and in other countries with the thriving dairy industry offering a sustainable solution with affordable price and high nutrient content thank you thank you very much Ms. Sadaf I hear you say that when it comes to formulation and acceptability and solutions generally there is a need to continuously improve any solution that we get to and secondly we need to engage the private sector I also hear you talk about collaboration across borders to share solutions and scale up thank you very much finally I'll turn to you Ms. Chawinga you shared about the ERAS program and several successes it's impressive to hear that diet diversity doubled from 23% to 43% so I'm curious how have you worked with the government on the ERAS program and what are the challenges with scaling up agricultural practices at a national level Ms. Chawinga that is normally yes can you hear me go ahead go ahead please thank you the first challenge that we are facing is the provision of conservation activities because these climate conservation activities they need heavy investments and also to putting them together with nutrition activities that they need a lot of resources so to have these activities being done together or simultaneously it requires a lot of resources but the good thing is that they support from both the farmers and also the extension workers since the farmers have experienced the effects of climate change and also they have seen how the the pilot has successfully helped the farmers in upscaling their nutrition status and also in upscaling their livelihoods they are willing to take but this is the only limiting factor to say they need heavy investments they need a lot of resources so that you can able to conduct them and also you can make impact in the people's lives thank you thank you very much I have identified a couple of themes here we have seen government ownership the policy environment we have also seen proof of concepts as we have seen in Malawi we need to back this concept with investment and I also hear you talk about the need to collaborate across countries but also in the local setting partnering with smallholder farmers private sector and that's what we all need to scale the solutions that work so I want to thank you all our panellists for participating in this brief session and I hope this very brief conversation provides information on the different examples challenges and opportunities for us to integrate nutrition and climate action I'll turn it back to you Dominic and please our panellists if there are questions in the chat feel free to answer them thank you thank you so much Viviane for facilitating this brief but yet very informative discussion and for helping indeed to extract recommendations that will be that will be captured in the summary that will be made available later on I will now give the floor to Dr. Luis Maria de Rigel the head of the multi-sectoral action in the food system unit of the WHO for some concluding remarks Louza, the floor is yours thank you very much certainly all the session has been very very good so I appreciate a lot of invitation and opportunity just to give a couple of points regarding what the WHO is doing in this space first I would say that this webinar gave us opportunity to everyone to all the audience to have more clarity on the links and interdependence between climate change and nutrition and of course I think that now everyone leaves this webinar with clarity on ICANN it's an initiative that brings together all these narratives and certainly there is collective action around it and hopefully there will be a lot of impact with it so WHO continues to work on highlighting the win-win between climate action and nutrition and is doing so through a series of events in the road towards COP 28 with our partners we are organizing a workshop on 2nd of May with a number of permanent missions partners and the missions are from Rome and Geneva which gives a lot of strength to these conversations then after that there will be a side event around the World Health Assembly number 76 WHO is convening that side event in collaboration with Gain the scaling up nutrition movement and POW of course so if there are representatives of member states please contact us because if you would like to co-sponsor the event this is the right time we are finalizing the concept note and all the proposal together as we heard today from the examples from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Pakistan there are concrete examples of where we can bring together the narrative between nutrition and climate change it's clear that some countries are taking actions and very concrete actions to bridge the gap between climate and nutrition action and we need more of those examples but it's not only more it's about reporting those examples we need to document them we need to discuss them as we are doing today but also we need to ensure that they are included in the reporting of the food systems transformation the reporting template has been shared with the national conveners by the food systems coordination hope that WHO and FAO support the reports and good examples will feed into the stock taking moment after the food system summit which will take place on the 24th and 26th of July in Rome so reporting is critical otherwise it's very difficult to keep us accountable and keep learning from each other I want to change I want to take the opportunity to mention the link that nutrition climate change have with food safety it's not only a link it's a really a connecting thread climate change poses a real change and it's highly relevant driver of existing and emerging food safety risks increasing temperatures ocean warming and acidification severe droughts wildfires precipitation patterns that are changed melting glaciers rising sea levels and extreme weather are changing our food systems are negatively affecting our food systems and some of those conditions are resulting in an increased risk an emergence of existing of existing new foodborne pathogens and parasites there is also an increase in the incidence of harmful alga blooms an increase of mycotoxins and of heavy metals particularly methylmercury in the environment so the connections between nutrition food safety and climate change are very very tight we are highlighting that the WHO is highlighting that in the WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety in 2022-23 which was launched last year so it's very important that food safety is also integrated into interventions and commitments for climate change adaptation and mitigation and maybe some of you have heard about the One Health approach we need to use the One Health approach it is an integrated unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize health for people, animal and ecosystems and the WHO is hosting an initiative that brings together different organizations to have joint planning to ensure that we are always thinking about how we can address people, animals and the planet in our programming and actions this approach the One Health approach recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants and wider environment including the ecosystems this approach mobilizes multiple sectors, disciplines and communities I mean throughout the community I'm really putting the health of the center the health of everyone at the center so before I end I have here in my notes a quote that I would like to share with you is by Dr. Pedro the WHO's Director General and he said divided bi-directional relationship between nutrition and climate change is a challenge but it's also an opportunity it means that by ensuring healthy diets from sustainable and resilient food systems we can address all forms of malnutrition as well as mitigate climate change this is why for me the initiative on climate action and nutrition is almost too good to be true I close the quote it's true there are so many wins by bringing together nutrition and climate change that it is true that it's almost too good to be true I believe that today our audience lives with more clarity on the connections between nutrition and climate change and on the systemic actions that we need to take to improve the health of people animals and the planet from WHO I can certainly say that we look forward to our collective action in this area thank you and over to you Dominic thank you thank you so much Luz including for the quotes of Dr. Pedro Tedros an excellent one well colleagues as you know in this dialogue series we are committed to identifying and sharing the key lessons that are emerging and therefore as I said for the previous dialogues we will extract some key takeaways messages and preliminary conclusions from this discussion and propose them to you at the beginning of our next webinar and I would like of course to express our sincere gratitude to all the distinguished speakers who dedicated their valuable time to be with us today especially to thank our Geneva partners WHO, GAIN and SUN and our colleagues of course in the FAO food and nutrition division and of course in the Brussels and Geneva office last but not least our gratitude goes to the participant for taking your time to join us in this 7-7 of the FAO in Geneva nutrition dialogue series and I thank you for your attendance and please do join us for our next webinar it will be more and more interesting thank you, good day and bye bye thank you bye Dominique thank you bye everyone bye thank you bye Dominique