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SE 4.2 Scaling Landscape Approaches for Food Systems Transformation: Knowledge Platforms and Financing Partnerships

04:30 pm - 05:45 pm
Auditorium Hall 3

The session will bring together multilateral institutions, development partners, and private investors to explore how knowledge partnerships and financing platforms can accelerate landscape-based food systems transformation across Asia and the Pacific. 

Moderator: Xi Cao, Principal Natural Resources and Agriculture Specialist, SD2-AFNR, ADB

Welcome Remarks and Setting the Context
Qingfeng Zhang, Senior Director, SD2-AFNR, ADB

Insights

  • Kaveh Zahedi, Assistant Director General and Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and the Environment, FAO (virtual)
  • Donal Brown, Associate Vice President, IFAD

Panel Discussion: “Translating knowledge-driven landscape approaches into bankable investment programs”
Panel Moderator: Marie L’hostis, Water Resources Specialist, SD2-AFNR, ADB

Panelists

  • Peter Umunay, Thematic Lead for Food Systems and Land Use, GEF (virtual)
  • Yoko Watanabe, Director, Environment, CCSD, ADB
  • Lifeng Li, Director, Land and Water Division, FAO (virtual)
  • Ruben Echeverria, Senior Advisor, Agricultural Development, Gates Foundation
  • Paul Winters, Executive Director, Aim for Scale
  • Lynnette Neufeld, FAO Director of Nutrition, FAO 

Questions & Answers

Closing Remarks and way forward 
Qingfeng Zhang, Senior Director, SD2-AFNR, ADB

Speakers

  • Donal Brown

    Associate Vice President

    International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

  • Kaveh Zahedi

    Assistant Director General and Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and the Environment

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

  • Lifeng Li

    Director

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

  • Lynnette Neufeld

    Director of the Food and Nutrition Division (ESN)

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

  • Marie L’Hostis

    Water Resources Specialist, SD2-AFNR

    Asian Development Bank

  • Narayan Iyer

    Senior Natural Resources and Agriculture Specialist, Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office

    Asian Development Bank

  • Navin Twarakavi

    Senior Sector Planning Specialist

    Asian Development Bank

  • Paul Winters

    Executive Director, Agricultural Innovation Mechanism for Scale (AIM for Scale)

    University of Notre Dame

  • Peter Umunay

    Thematic Lead for Food Systems and Land Use

    GEF

  • Qingfeng Zhang

    Senior Director, Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office

    Asian Development Bank

  • Ruben G. Echeverria

    Senior Advisor, Agricultural Development

    Gates Foundation

  • Xi Cao

    Principal Natural Resources and Agriculture Specialist, SD2-AFNR, ADB

    Asian Development Bank

  • Yoko Watanabe

    Director, Environment, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

    Asian Development Bank