FFD and Fingo are organizing a webinar on Nature Positive Production in Developing Countries on 21st of September at 9am – 11:45am.

The webinar continues the dialogue within the framework of the Food System Dialogue, a process in which the UN gathers together a multitude of partners to debate and deliberate on how to improve the present food system to be more sustainable and equitable. The webinar aims at studying how Finnish actors could support their partners in global south better when they transform their production systems to be more nature positive. The webinar and group discussions will be held in English.

The webinar’s keynote speaker, Samuel Tumwesigye, is a rural development professional. He is currently a PhD Fellow at the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies KU Leuven, Belgium, researching on rural-urban interaction and land use changes. Samuel also works as an Agriculture and Climate Change Adaptation Specialist at UNDP HQ, and was one of the authors of Fingo’s study on impacts of the EU’s Green Deal and Farm to Fork to Africa (2021). After the keynote speaker’s presentation, participants will be divided into small groups to discuss one of the following topics:

• Who should provide knowledge and extension on location-based nature positive production mechanisms? How should this be done? Which institutions should be involved?

• How are we going to strengthen women’s role in the development of nature positive production methods?

• How can we strengthen advisory and training services to support the change process and reduce risks? How can we improve learning, development and innovation capacity in the local level/global South?

• How could nature positive production be better supported in global value chains? What are the current challenges and barriers? How could we overcome these challenges and barriers?

Agenda:

9:00am – 9:10am          Introduction - Aulikki Hulmi, Director for International Affairs at Finland’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

9:10am – 9:25am           What is meant by nature positive production? – Juha Helenius, Professor at University of Helsinki and Research Director at Ruralia Institute

9:25 am – 9:45am          Keynote speaker Samuel Tumwesigye, PhD fellow at University of Leuven.

9:45am – 10:45am         Discussion in small groups based on the questions above

10:45am – 11:00am        Break

11:00am – 11:30am         Summary of group discussions (~5 min/group)

11:30am – 11:45am          Final remarks – Juha Ruippo, Chairman of Fingo’s Food Security Group

All participants interested in food systems and nature positive production in developing countries working with Finnish actors are welcome to join the webinar.

Please register for the event via this link by 17th of September.