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[EQ] Food Security, Health and Sustainable Development - Online seminar 16 May, 2012

Sustainable Development and Environmental Health – SDE - PAHO/WHO

Family and Community Health – FCH – PAHO/WHO

Food Security, Health and Sustainable Development:
Are the current production, distribution and use of food healthy, safe, secure and sustainable in the Americas?
Reflections towards Rio+20

XV Seminar: Wednesday 16 May, 2012 – PAHO/WHO Rio+20 (In English with simultaneous translation to Spanish)


Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - EDT (Washington, DC USA)
To check local time see the World Clock

Website PAHO/WHO Rio+20 at:  http://bit.ly/oxoRdS

“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Food security covers availability, access, utilization and stability issues, and — in its focus on individuals —also embraces their energy, protein and nutrient needs for life, activity, pregnancy, growth and long-term capabilities.”  The World Food Summit, Declaration on World Food Security. Held in Rome, Italy 13-17 November 1996.

 

In the Americas, 45 million people are estimated to be at-risk for insufficient food, despite the fact that production is estimated to be in excess of 40% of caloric needs. 

 

Food is one of the seven critical issues at Rio+20; the others are jobs, energy, cities, water, ocean, and disasters). The Right to Food was first recognized in the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. In 1996, the formal adoption of the Right to Adequate Food pointed the way towards the rights based approach to food security.

 

Presently the world is facing the rapid degradation of soils, freshwater, oceans, forests and biodiversity, and the pressure that climate change is putting even more on the already limited resources. Economic drivers define crop production, distribution, availability and access. Food is not only subject to climate uncertainties, but also to market fluctuations and commodity prices.

 

In this seminar, the speakers will give an overview of the multidimensional nature of food security: from crop protection to abuse of agrochemicals, food safety and nutrition, and the impact each of these dimensions has on public health and on sustainable development in the Region. Critical steps towards sustainable development will be explored during the debate

Related material:

- Save and Grow, FAO, 2011

- Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health http://bit.ly/IZeWaj

- Leveraging agriculture for improving nutrition and health http://bit.ly/IJHq5n


- Food safety: equity and social determinants http://bit.ly/cv95bR

 

Agenda

12:00h          Introduction:  Moderator, Dr. Carlos Samayoa, Senior Advisor and Project Coordinator Healthy Life Course, PAHO/WHO

12:05            FAO Sustainable Crop Production Intensification: Save and Grow

        Mark Davis, Senior Officer, Pesticides Management, Plant Production and Protection Division (AGP) Food and Agriculture Organization

 

12:15            Agriculture Pesticides and Public Health

Catharina Wesseling, Instituto Regional de Estudios en Sustancias Tóxicas (IRET), Costa Rica

 

12:25            Food safety in the Americas and the Caribbean

Enrique Perez-Gutierrez, Advisor, Veterinary Public Health, PWR-Panama

 

12:35            Food security and nutrition: trends in the American Region

Chessa Lutter, Senior Advisor, Food and Nutrition, PAHO/WHO

 

12:45            Debate: Questions & Comments from the participants

 

13:00            Closing remarks 

 

 

How to participate

In person:
PAHO/WHO
525 23rd ST NW
Washington DC, 20037
Room C – 12h to 13h Eastern Time (WDC)

Online: via Elluminate link:

- Spanish room: www.paho.org/virtual/SeminariosSDE 

- English room www.paho.org/virtual/SDESeminars

SDE Seminar Series towards Rio+20

For those who cannot follow the live seminar, we will have it available later at PAHO Rio+20 Toolkit at: http://bit.ly/oxoRdS


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No.14 Global Sustainable Development and Environmental Health- Joint Discussion with the US Institute of Medicine
http://bit.ly/M4zpwg

Sustainable Development Indicators
No.13  Health at the heart of Sustainable Development Indicators

http://bit.ly/IQGhgE

 

Economic – social aspects Non Communicable Diseases

No.12  Economic and social aspects of Non Communicable Diseases NCDs

http://bit.ly/IisLCg

Non Communicable Diseases 

No.11 Non Communicable Diseases and Sustainable Development

http://bit.ly/JGgnvr

Workers health

No.10 Green Economy /Green Jobs: Health Risks & Benefits
http://bit.ly/IhCwK2

Regional Experiences

No. 9 The Voice and Experience of the Caribbean Islands towards SD
http://bit.ly/HGvKCh

Road Safety  

No.  8 Road Safety and Public Transportation towards Sustainable Development:
an agenda for health for Rio+20
http://bit.ly/IS7rAH

Globalization

No. 7 Globalization and Health Equity towards Sustainable Development
http://bit.ly/HJ0PTT

Civil Society

No. 6 The Voices of Civil Society - Creating the Healthy Future
http://bit.ly/HRsJyd

Working Environments
No. 5 Employment and working conditions for Sustainable Development
http://bit.ly/ILtlHE

The Environment

No. 4 Amazon Region: Environment and Health in the Context of Sustainable Development
http://bit.ly/IlMMmK

Climate Change

No. 3 Climate Change and health in the context of Rio+20
http://bit.ly/J7NLFJ

Water

No. 2 Water and Sanitation
http://bit.ly/HP7kGw

Sustainable Development

No. 1 Public Health Challenges
http://bit.ly/Iv3LWW

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