 Good morning, everyone. It's a real pleasure to be here for this important side event and discussion. And thanks to the co-organizers and sponsors for pulling together this really important dialogue around how we can collaborate better and work differently across the space to address both protection risks and food insecurity. As the emergency relief coordinator, Martin Griffiths has commented and stressed hunger and food insecurity have continued to rise over the past year. While we also know that protection risks and displacement have been key drivers of humanitarian need over the past decade. And I think the theme for our discussion today is so important precisely because we know that there is such a strong correlation between these record levels of acute food insecurity that we're seeing globally. And the unprecedented levels of people affected by conflict, disaster, and displacement. Conflict and insecurity, according to the most recent global report on food crisis, remained the biggest driver of food insecurity in 19 countries or territories where more than 117 million people were living in what we call IPC3 plus, so crisis levels or above. We're now, I should say, also seeing economic shocks linked to conflict and global food system shocks becoming a significant driver of food insecurity. Indeed, in some countries, even the main driver of food insecurity now in places like South Sudan and Syria, adding an additional layer of complexity to contexts that are already complex. Colleagues, we all know from our experience that food security is closely tied to a person and a household's ability to generate income. In many cases, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, this income often comes from agricultural livelihoods. And when these agricultural livelihoods are compromised, are damaged, are disrupted by conflict or disaster or displacement, the impact on household food security can be immense. With then a serious flow-on knock-on effect in terms of increased protection risks, so this relationship between these two issues, I think, is fundamental for our shared understanding. What does it mean then for individuals and communities who find themselves in this situation? When people lose their livelihoods and are not able to access sufficient and nutritious food, they are often tragically forced to resort to negative coping strategies. And we have this, it's a very sort of, it sounds like a very cold phrase, right, a rather scientific phrase, but I think we all understand what's behind that in terms of the realities that families are faced with and the choices that they need to make to feed their families. These choices can often then increase risks to safety and dignity. We see evidence, but here again, I would say we have a collective responsibility to further deepen that evidence base that when household food security is compromised, protection risks increase significantly. And, as we well know, women and girls suffering the most. This can mean that girls are no longer able to attend school or must help a family cope with climate change-induced shocks such as drought. It can mean that women are more likely to resort to activities to meet the basic needs of households under stress, such as making dangerous journeys, whether to collect firewood or to access water, because they cannot afford to buy fuel or indeed resorting to dangerous income-generating activities exposing them to the risk of gender-based violence and other forms of harm. These are realities I think we're familiar with, but we need to be driven forward by this shared understanding. All of us, including FAO, that work in complex crisis contexts is, of course, indispensable, that the protection, therefore, is central to our collective response activities. And that we as food security actors understand and address the protection risks that specifically flow from acute food insecurity and can compromise the safety and dignity of affected populations. There are two key areas which FAO sees as critical to embedding centrality of protection in our responses in these complex food crisis contexts. The first relates specifically to how, as food security actors, we work in these settings. When working with highly vulnerable populations who are suffering acute food insecurity, we must, as a starting point, fully understand vulnerabilities to protection risks and to ensure that we are working with these populations, that as we're working with these populations, we're adopting an approach which, at a minimum, does no harm, but which protects and respects safety and dignity. This is incumbent on all actors, not just specialized protection agencies, not just FAO, although we indeed do take this responsibility seriously indeed. It means in practical terms that as food security actors, we need to coordinate and work even more closely with traditional protection actors, leveraging their expertise and analysis and understanding to deepen our shared understanding of protection risks. This can be through improved coordination between cluster mechanisms. Great to see colleagues from also the Global Food Security Cluster here in this important discussion today, which is being shared, obviously, by the Global Protection Cluster. I think these types of stronger partnerships between UN entities and, obviously, between NGO protection actors as well to improve protection outcomes and interventions is key. The second area, just to flag quickly, relates to how FAO specifically works to address increased protection risks that occur as a result of food insecurity. In so many of the contexts we're facing, where populations traditionally rely on agriculture, there are huge opportunities for us in a positive sense to reduce protection risks through comprehensive agricultural livelihood assistance, both early on in a crisis and in a protracted food crisis context. I would say I'm probably already taking more time than Sam wants me, but just parenthetically here, I see this country by country in terms of missions that we go on and crises that we visit. Recently in Somalia, meeting with a number of displaced families located outside of or around Baidoa, all of these families relied on agriculture for their livelihoods before. All of them told the same story about being forced to move because their crops had died in the fields and because their livestock were died. And all of them talked about the experience of these 100, 120, 200 kilometer journeys and what that meant in very visceral terms for their families and themselves. So this connection between meaningful support to agricultural interventions as a preventative protection strategy, I think is really, really important. We can, using these tools and others, significantly reduce the protection risks that households are facing. I could talk about all of this for a long time, but let me stop here because I'm very, very keen to hear as I know the panelists are on the experience that will be shared by you in the room and by colleagues online. So thank you again for this opportunity. Thank you for hosting the event.