Keynote Address Read more about Keynote Address Alvaro Lario cited how IFAD helped farmers in transforming agriculture and help eradicate poverty through financing. He highlighted that investments are needed in small-scale agriculture as these create jobs and help reduce poverty and food insecurity. There is also the need for, stronger policy engagement, and improved strategic partnerships. He shared some of IFAD's work in helping smallholder farmers while partnering with NGOs and private sector.
2060 Carbon Neutrality and China’s Food Systems Read more about 2060 Carbon Neutrality and China’s Food Systems In his presentation, Jiahua Pan highlighted that rural areas must lead the process towards carbon neutrality and contribute to net-zero carbon in urban areas. He highlighted that carbon neutrality will bring opportunities for rural prosperity while food security must be prioritized.
Remarks Read more about Remarks In his remarks, James Lynch highlighted the need for new approaches and integrated solutions to achieve carbon neutrality in the region, generate new revenues from renewable energy, and channel more private investments into research and development.
James Lynch Keywords food security rural prosperity rural development sustainable food system food system transformation carbon neutrality water-food-energy nexus climate adaptation climate mitigation Read more about James Lynch James Lynch was the Director General of the East Asia Department of Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila, Philippines. He assumed office in February 2020. Mr. Lynch managed ADB’s sovereign operations in the People’s Republic of China and Mongolia across multiple sectors and thematic areas, including transport, energy, environment, climate change, health, education, and public finance. He was also responsible for ADB’s relations with Hong Kong, China; Republic of Korea; and Taipei, China.
World Bank: Scaling up Investments in Food Systems Transformation Read more about World Bank: Scaling up Investments in Food Systems Transformation Dina Umali-Deininger discussed the different challenges, opportunities, and visions for the food system in the East and Asia Pacific. She also shared World Bank’s vision for the food system to achieve a healthy economy, people, and planet; highlighted World Bank’s strong focus on enhancing climate co-benefits trends in agriculture as well as leveraging public-private partnerships; and described how COVID-19 impacted exposed the food system’s weakness and how it made things matter worse.
Dina Umali-Deininger Keywords food system agriculture food security food system transformation food system financing Read more about Dina Umali-Deininger Dina Umali-Deininger s the Agriculture Practice Manager, Sustainable Development, in the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank. She manages advisory activities and a lending portfolio focused on increasing agricultural productivity, linking farmers to markets and value chain development, and improving climate resilience through climate smart agriculture. Prior to joining the Africa Region, she was the Practice Manager for the Agriculture and Water Global Practices in the Europe and Central Asia Region. She has an M.A. and Ph.D.
Toward Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems in Asia and the Pacific Read more about Toward Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems in Asia and the Pacific Yasuyuki Sawada emphasized that COVID-19 reversed the gain in food security, highlighting the need for developing Asia to build back the food system better to reduce hunger and malnutrition. He presented how digitalization and technology can facilitate a post-COVID-19 transition to resilient and efficient food supply chains through institutional and legislative forms and targeted support to poor and smallholder farmers. He also highlighted that digitalization can also help social protection programs for better food security.
Alvaro Lario Keywords food system agriculture food security food system transformation food system financing Read more about Alvaro Lario Alvaro Lario is part of the Executive Management Committee and is responsible for the design and implementation of the financial strategies and policies at IFAD, including oversight of the Treasury, Controller and Financial Management divisions. Before joining the Fund in early 2018, Lario served as Treasury Capital Markets Lead and Principal Portfolio Officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group. His earlier positions include various roles in the private sector asset management industry and in academia, including public and business schools.
Shingo Kimura Keywords SEER environment natural resources adb sustainable webinar series agriculture webinar series sustainable and resilient food system food security adb agriculture sector rdfs tg rural development Read more about Shingo Kimura Shingo is responsible for ADB’s operation on sustainable rural development and food security in East Asia. Prior to joining ADB, he was Economist and Agricultural Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he conducted a series of policy research for the productive, sustainable, and resilient food and agricultural sector in Europe, North America, and Asia.
Rural Prosperity with Carbon Neutrality and Food Security Read more about Rural Prosperity with Carbon Neutrality and Food Security Rural regions have the advantage of not only having the space for solar and wind energy production - which are low-carbon electricity technologies - but also have the potential to generate carbon neutral bioenergy. This scenario sets the opportunity on leading the process towards carbon neutrality. However, rural carbon neutrality does have implications for food security as food-land-nexus complicates the interactions.