This session aims to support ADB’s shift from crisis response to long‑term food systems transformation under the $40 billion agenda by identifying country readiness gaps, prioritizing actions to strengthen policy and institutional capacity, advancing programmatic and policy‑based approaches, aligning public and private partners, scaling nature‑positive and nutrition‑sensitive investments, enhancing SME financing, and accelerating country engagement and pipeline development.
Opening and Keynote Speech
Masato Kanda, President, ADB
Moderator: Stefania Dina, Country Director, Timor-Leste, ADB
Insights
- Qu Dongyu, Director General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme
- Michael Kremer, Director, Development Innovation Lab, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences 2019
Group Photo
(onstage)
Signing of the ADB-World Food Programme Cooperation Agreement
Moderator: Anna Oposa, Co-Founder, Save Philippine Seas
Signing of the ADB-World Food Programme Cooperation Agreement
Signing of the Amendment to the ADB-Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan Memorandum of Cooperation
