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Environment, Climate, Gender and Social Inclusion Division of the International
Fund for Agricultural Development, Jyotsna Puri; the Executive Chairperson of
AKADEMIYA2063, Ousmane Badiane; the Executive Director of the Global Alliance
for Improved Nutrition, Lawrence Haddad; and the founder and Chief Executive
Officer of Thought for Food, Christine Gould.
8.
Also at the same meeting, an interactive discussion ensued, during which
statements were made by the representatives of the following non-governmental
organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council: the ACT
Alliance – Action by Churches Together; the International Federation of Medical
Students’ Associations; and the Women’s Health and Education Center.
9.
Following the informal virtual meeting held on the morning of 20 April, the
Commission continued its general discussion on sub-items (a) and (b) under agenda
item 3 and heard statements by the representatives of Mexico and El Salvador, as well
as by the observers for the Philippines, the Republic of Moldova and Uganda.
10. At the virtual informal meeting of the Commission held on the afternoon of
20 April, chaired by the Vice-Chair (Turkey), the Commission continued its general
discussion on sub-items (a) and (b) under agenda item 3 and heard statements by the
representatives of Colombia, China, the Netherlands, Brazil, Lebanon, Luxembourg,
Israel, Nepal, the Russian Federation, Belarus and Bulgaria.
11. At the same meeting, statements in the general discussion were also made by
the observers for Indonesia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Algeria, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Cabo
Verde, Morocco, Chile, Australia, Thailand and Pakistan.
12. At the virtual informal meeting held on the morning of 21 April 2021, the
Commission held a multi-stakeholder panel on population, food security, nutrition
and sustainable development, which was chaired by Vice-Chair Cristina Popescu
(Romania), who made a statement.
13. The multi-stakeholder panel and interactive dialogue were moderated by the
Director General of the European Public Health Alliance, Milka Sokolović, who made
a statement.
14. At the same meeting, the following panellists responded to the questions posed
by the moderator: Associate Professor and leader of the flagship research programme
Food Systems for Healthier Diets in the Division of Human Nutrition and Health,
Wageningen University, the Netherlands, Inge D. Brouwer; the Head of the
Multisectoral Actions in Food Systems Unit at the World Health Organization, Luz
Maria De-Regil; a nutritionist at Feed the Children in Kenya and Youth Leader for
Nutrition in the Civil Society Network of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement, Jane
Napais Lankisa; Senior Researcher at and former Director of the Institute of Nutrition
at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Emorn Udomkesmalee; and Professor of
Ecosystem Management in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the
American University of Beirut, Rami Zurayk.
15. Also at the same meeting, an interactive discussion ensued, during which
statements were made by the representatives of Luxembourg and Japan, as well as by
the observers for the Philippines and Morocco.
16. At the same virtual informal meeting held on the morning of 21 April,
statements in the interactive discussion were also made by the representatives of the
following non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic
and Social Council: the Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women and
the Anglican Consultative Council.
17. Following the virtual informal meeting held on the morning of 21 April, the
Commission continued its general discussion on sub-items (a) and (b) under agenda
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