The conference will be interpreted into English, German, French and Spanish.

You will find the access data for the livestream of the ‘Politics against Hunger’ conference here in June.

Monday, 23 June 2025 

9:00 a.m.

• Registration and welcome coffee

10:00 a.m.

• Opening session
• Greetings
  • Sebastian Graf von Keyserlingk
    Head of Directorate 62, International Cooperation, Global Food Policy, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity (BMLEH)
  • Paul Garaycochea
    Director for Sustainable Supply Chains, Agricultural and Food Systems, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
• Opening speech
  • Nosipho Nausca-Jean Jezile
    Chairperson of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
• Transfer of the conference chairmanship to
  • Michael Windfuhr
    Deputy Director, German Institute for Human Rights (DIMR)

10:45 a.m.

• Policies against Hunger: Taking Stock in Three Rounds

10:45 a.m.

• Panel discussion - kick-off-stocktaking
  • Sarah Brand
    Researcher an Policy Advisor, German Institute for Human Rights (DIMR)
  • Lena Bassermann
    Consultant & Lead Author

10:55 a.m.

• Round 1: Current Debates on the Right to Food
  • Josepha Sacko (tbc)
    Ambassador, Permanent Represantative of Angola to the UN in Rome
  • Dr. Máximo Torero
    Chief Economist at the Food an Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Genevieve Savigny
    Chair, UN Working Group on UN Declarations on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP)
  • Dr. Leonard Mizzi
    Head of Division Sustainable Agri-Food systems an Fisheries, DG International Partnerships, European Commission

11:25 a.m.

• CFS-Uptake
  • Adriana Herrera Moreno
    Secretary, Commitee of World Food Security (CFS)

11:35 a.m. 

• Round 2: Perspectives on the Implemantation of the Right to Food
  • Ambassador Dr. Jhenifer María Mojica
    Head of Mission of Colombia to the United Nations in Rome
  • Dr. Juan Echanove
    Team Lead Right to Food, FAO
  • Prof. Dr. Johanna Jacobi
    ETH Zürich, Agroecological Transitions, Department of Environmental Systems Science
  • Dr. Ana Maria Suarez Franco
    Secretary General, Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN) International

12:30 p.m.

• Round 3: How Stakeholders shape the Future of the Right to Food
  • Petra Bentkämper
    President, German Association of Rural Women
  • Mary Karanu
    Advocacy Advisor at Welthungerhilfe (WHH), Right to Food Coalition Project in Kenya
  • Pradeep Wagle
    Chief of the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR
  • Huy Dat Pham
    Projects - Marketing Manager, INTIMEX MY PHUOC JSC, FSS certified coffee exporter, Vietnam

1:00 p.m.

• Lunch and networking

2:00 p.m. 

• Working Groups I: Examples of implementation, impetus, analysis
   
• WG 1: Access to Land (Interpretation into GER, FRA, ESP)
  Chair: Mamadou Goita
  Executive director, Institute for Research and Promotion of Alternatives in Development (IPRAD), Mali
  • Project 1: VGGT Implementation in Sierra Leone and Assessment of Multistakeholder Approaches FAO, BMLEH/FAO Bilateral Trust Fund
    Presented by: Francesca Romano, Land Tenure Officer and Project manager, Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division FAO
  • Project 2: Land Matters: Integrating International Norms in Ghana’s National Land Policy through a Multi-Stakeholder Approach; Implemented by GIZ, funded by BMZ
    Presented by: Dr. Wordsworth Odame Larbi, Land Policy Consultant, former CEO of the Ghanaian Lands Commission, Member of the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa (NELGA)
  • Input Youth: Moise Mbimbe, Cameroon Young Friends of the Treaty, Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism for relations with the CFS, Coordination Committee (CSIPM CC), Member of the Youth Working Group
  • Input Stakeholder: Dr. Hakim Baliraine, Chairperson Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and Chairperson, Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF)
     
• WG 2: Empowering Women and Girls (Interpretation into GER, FRA, ESP)
  Chair: Dr. Saskia Marijnissen
  Senior Policy Advisor between the African Union (AU) and BMLEH Agricultural Policy Dialogue
  • Project 1: NaviNut
    Project of BMLEH International Research Collaborations on Global Food Security
    Presented by: Patricia Kiprono, Research Associate, The German Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL)
  • Project 2: POSITIVE DEVIANCE – Discovering Enabling Uncommon Practices in Households and Communities for Improved Food Security; Implemented by GIZ, Funded by BMZ
    Presented by: Seema Kurup, Advisor: Participatory Development Communication at Eka – The Communicators’ Collective
  • Input Youth: Sakina Usengimana, Afrifoods Ltd, Rwanda and Representative of AFRICAN Youth in Agriculture Forum
  • Input Stakeholder: Aasha Ramesh, Coordination Committee (CC) member for Women and Gender Diversity Sector, Asian Rural Women Coalition and CSIPM Coordination Committee
    (CC) Member for Women and Gender Diversity Sector, India
     
• WG 3: Bioeconomy as an Instrument for Ensuring Food Security (only ENG)
  Chair: Dr. Lilia Stubrin
  Director, CENIT, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) – CENIT, School of Economics and Business, National University of San Martín (UNSAM), Argentina
  • Project 1: Partnerships for Forests
    Presented by: Dr. Luis Rios, Latin America Natural Capital Director, Colombia Palladium Group; BMLEH Project
  • Project 2: Healthy Soil Healthy Food – Biofertilizer and Bioprotector Production and Use in Africa, Bread for the World-and Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)-Project
    Presented by: Charles Lwanga Tumuhe, Healthy Soil Healthy Food Project Officer, Uganda
  • Input Youth: Liza Vernyuy Kengran, Bioeconomy Youth Champion, United Kingdom
  • Input Stakeholder: Musa Sowe, Smallholder Member of the Network for farmers organisations
    and producers in Westafrica (ROPPA), Gambia
     
• WG 4: Sustainable and Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains (only ENG)
  Chair: Dr. Pascal Liu
  Senior Economist and Lead Responsible Global Value Chains, Markets and Trade Division, FAO
  • Project 1: Food Security Standard (FSS) Meo Carbon Solutions and Welthungerhilfe, BMLEH-Project
    Presented by: Dr. Rafaël Schneider, Deputy Head
  • Project 2: Policy approach to strengthening local value chains in Brazil
    Presented by: Isabel Alverez Vispo, Urgenci, CC member Consumers Sector, CSIPM
  • Input Business: Alejandra Sarmiento Soler, Regenerative Agriculture Program Manager, ofi
  • Input Business: Mr. Manoj Kumar Menon, Executive Director, International Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture (ICCOA), India

3.30 p.m. 

• Coffee break

4.00 p.m. 

• Working Groups Session II (continued): Recommendations for Action
  • WG 1: Access to Land
  • WG 2: Empowering Women and Girls
  • WG 3: Bioeconomy as an Instrument for Ensuring Food Security
  • WG 4: Sustainable and responsible agricultural supply chains 

5.30 p.m. 

• Transfer to the German Federal Foreign Office

6.00 p.m. 

• Reception in the Federal Foreign Office International Club
  Greetings: Alois Rainer, German Federal Minister for Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity (BMLEH)
  Greetings: Dr. Bernhard Kotsch, State Secretary of the German Federal Foreign Office (tbc)

10.30 p.m. 

• End Reception

Tuesday, 24 June 2025 

9.00 a.m. 

• Registration and welcome coffee

10.00 a.m. 

• Outcome of the working groups
  • Chair WG1: Mamadou Goita
    Executive director of the Institute for Research and Promotion of Alternatives in Development, IPRAD, Mali
  • Chair WG2: Dr. Saskia Marijnissen
    Senior Policy Advisor, Agricultural Policy Dialogue between BMLEH and the African Union (AU)
  • Chair WG3: Dr. Lilia Stubrin
    Director, CENIT, School of Economics and Business, National University of San Martín (UNSAM), Argentina
  • Chair WG4: Dr. Pascal Liu
    Senior Economist and Lead Responsible Global Value Chains, Markets and Trade Division, FAO

11.00 a.m. 

• Human right to food in the countries of the Global North
  • Christina Lampl
    Research Associate, Austrian National Public Health Institute
  • Deirdre Woods
    Landworkers Alliance (LVC) United Kingdom CSIPM CC member for Western Europe, coordinator of Equity working group
  • Dr. André Jeroma
    Board member, German Network of Food Councils
  • Renate Antonie Krause
    European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN)

12.30 p.m. 

• Lunch and networking

2.00 p.m. 

• World Café I:
  Recommendations for action (WG 1 and 2)

3.00 p.m. 

• Coffee break

3.30 p.m. 

• World Café II:
  Recommendations for action (WG 3, 4, and Right to Food in the Global North)

5.00 p.m. 

• End

Wednesday, 25 June 2025 

8.00 a.m. 

• Registration and Welcome Coffee

9.00 a.m. 

• Summary of the World Café Outcomes
  • Chair WG1: Mamadou Goita
    Executive director of the Institute for Research and Promotion of Alternatives in Development, IPRAD, Mali
  • Chair WG2: Dr. Saskia Marijnissen
    Senior Policy Advisor, Agricultural Policy Dialogue between BMLEH and the African Union (AU)
  • Chair WG3: Dr. Lilia Stubrin
    Director, CENIT, School of Economics and Business, National University of San Martín (UNSAM), Argentina
  • Chair WG4: Lisa Marie Pyka
    Project Manager Human Rights, Meo Carbon Solutions
  • Global North: Christina Lampl
    Research Associate, Austrian National Public Health Institute

10.00 a.m. 

• From Analysis to Action: Reflections on the Conference Outcomes
  • Nosipho Nausca-Jean Jezile
    Chair, CFS
  • Andreas von Brandt
    Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UN Organizations in Rome
  • Dr. Stefanos Fotiou
    Director, UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, FAO
  • Ron Thomas Hartman
    Director Global Engagement, Partnership and Resource Mobilization Division, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

11.30 a.m. 

• Closing Session
  • Martina Englhardt-Kopf, Member of the German Bundestag
    Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity (BMLEH)
  • Nosipho Nausca-Jean Jezile
    Chair, CFS
  • Michael Windfuhr
    Deputy Director, German Institute for Human Rights (DIMR)

12.00 p.m. 

• Flying Lunch (take-away)