AUG 17, 2022 - 5:30 TO 9:00AM EDT

IFPRI’s South Asia Regional Office (IFPRI-SAR) is organizing a hybrid launch event for this year’s Global Food Policy Report in Dhaka, Bangladesh in collaboration with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) on August 17, 2022.

The 2022 Global Food Policy Report, IFPRI’s flagship report, highlights the urgency of accelerating innovation, reforming policies, resetting market incentives, and increasing financing for sustainable food systems transformation.

With climate change posing increasingly complex existential challenges to the South Asian region, there is an imperative for urgent action on climate change — both to achieve the major emissions reductions needed to limit global warming and to increase adaptive capacity and resilience.

Join Bangladesh’s discussion of IFPRI's 2022 GFPR to learn more about possible opportunities for accelerated action that could be considered in policy and investment decision-making for climate change adaptation, mitigation, and resilience.

Welcome and Country Context

• Shahidur Rashid, Director for South Asia, IFPRI

Release of Global Food Policy Report 2022

Keynote: Global Food Policy Report 2022

• Johann Swinnen, Global Director, CGIAR Systems Transformation Science Group & Director General, IFPRI

GFPR South Asia Presentation

• Aditi Mukherji, Principal Researcher, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC AR6

Remarks by Special Guest

• Jamal Uddin Ahmed, Director Agriculture, Rural Development and SAARC Development Fund (SDF)

Remarks by Special Guest

• H. E. Mr. Tenzin Lekphell, Secretary General, Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)

Remarks by Special Guest

• Kathryn Davis Stevens, Mission Director, USAID Bangladesh

Remarks by Special Guest

• Ahmad Kaikaus, Principal Secretary to the Honorable Prime Minister, Prime Minister’s Office

Remarks by the Chief Guest

• Honorable Minister, Muhammad Abdul Mannan, MP, Ministry of Planning

Remarks by the Chair

• Md. Sayedul Islam, Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture

Plenary: Perspectives on Climate Change and Food Systems in India

Panel Moderator

• Saleemul Huq, Director, International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD)

Discussants

• Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, Chairman, Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists
• Purvi Mehta, Global Growth and Opportunities, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Duncan Overfield, Deputy Development Director, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), British High Commission
• Hossain Zillur Rahman, Executive Chairman, Power & Participation Research Centre (PPRC)

Remarks by Panel Chair

• Md. Ismiel Hossain ndc, Secretary, Ministry of Food

Vote of Thanks

• Shoumi Mustafa, Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI