The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our economies, health and food systems and threatens to deepen the global crisis of malnutrition. Food fortification strategies are an essential part of the nutrition safety net during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond – helping to restore access to healthy diet when the availability of fresh produce and animal-source foods is limited. Join us to explore how governments and businesses are rising to the challenge by implementing food fortification programs despite the obstacles created by the pandemic.
Moderator:
- Gerda Verburg, UN Assistant Secretary General and SUN Movement coordinator
Speakers:
- Hamid Jalil, Member Food Security and Climate Change, Planning Commission of Pakistan
- Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Penjani Mkambula, Programme Lead, Large Scale Food Fortification , GAIN
- Felix Phiri, Director of Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health, Malawi
- George Oluwalajiki, Product Development Manager, Flour Mills of Nigeria
- Kazi Zebunnessa Begum, Additional Secretary, Health Services Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh
- Engidu Legesse, General Manager at Guts Agro Industry PLC, Ethiopia
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