Understanding Recent G7 and G20 Food Initiatives

This preparatory session will support and strengthen civil society engagement in the upcoming Brazil–Italy–South Africa Trilateral Round Table on Food Security, which will bring together:

• Policymakers
• Civil society organisations
• Farmer networks
• Other key stakeholders from Brazil, Italy, and South Africa

The Round Table will focus on progress and challenges in implementing recent international food security efforts under the G7 and G20 and in preparation for COP30 in Brazil. 

Key initiatives under discussion will include:

• Brazil’s Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty (GAAHP)
• Italy’s Apulia Food Systems Initiative
• South Africa’s G20 Food Security Task Force, including the recently adopted Ubuntu Approaches on Food Security and Nutrition

This Preparatory meeting will:

• Engage a wider group of  civil society representatives.
• Help those participants prepare and coordinate key messages, and provide an opportunity for wider civil society to have their perspectives reflected.
• Raise awareness of these key food security initiatives and explore how they can be leveraged in future advocacy, campaigning, and programme work.

Agenda

Person Responsible

11:00-11:05

Welcome and check-in

Tyler Booth, ACG20

11:05-11:20

Scene-setting and high-level overview presentation on the G7 and G20 food outcomes

Elin Lorimer and Cristiana de Lia & Refiloe Joala, RLF (TBC)

11:20-11:30

Questions and Answers to Scene-setting presentation

Elin Lorimer 

11:30-12:15

What is happening on the ground? Facilitated interventions from farmers and civil-society from Italy, South Africa, Africa and Brazil 

Tyler Booth / Claire Tapscott 

12:15-12:25

What next? A summary of the discussion and pulling out key lessons for the Roundtable and COP30 

Elin Lorimer 

12:25-12:30

Closing 

Tyler Booth