IFPRI is participating with FAO’s Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean in the celebration of World Food Day and FAO’s 75th anniversary.

Given the complexity of managing the COVID-19 pandemic and its significant adverse effects on the region’s economies, FAO is convening stakeholders who impact agri-food systems to provide an institutional response by facilitating and promoting dialogue and making available the technical capabilities, experiences, good practices, and synergies that will make it possible to tackle the post-pandemic process effectively.

Inaugural Ceremony (November 04 — 10:00am – 12:00pm CLT)

Roundtable: Latin America and the Caribbean: New Outlook, New Questions 

• Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI

Discussion: Analysing Effective Policies (November 04 — 12:30pm – 2:30pm CLT)

Quantifying Policy Impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean – Computable General Equilibrium Models

• Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla, Head of Latin America and Caribbean Program, IFPRI

From Dialogue to Action (November 05 — 10:00am – 12:00pm CLT)

Panel 1: Agri-food Systems and Macroeconomics

• Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla, Head of Latin America and Caribbean Program, IFPRI (Moderator)

Closing Plenary (November 06 — 10:00am – 12:00pm CLT)

Roundtable: Recovery with Transformation: New Paradigms, New Scenarios, New Responses

• Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla, Head of Latin America and Caribbean Program, IFPRI