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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah is a Senior Research Associate in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Cairo. Her research interests include applied economic development, trade, and spatial economics, with a focus on topics relevant to social protection, food, nutrition, and agriculture in the Middle East and Africa. 

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

SIDE EVENT 8 | Women farmers and Indigenous women’s views on climate change, Covid-19 and the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment

Co-Organized by IFPRI, Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

October 12, 2021

  • 6:45 – 8:15 am (America/New_York)
  • 12:45 – 2:15 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 4:15 – 5:45 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in the 49th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). Organized shortly after the United Nations Food Systems Summit, CFS 49 will focus on the 2021 State of Food Security and Nutrition report, uptake of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition, CFS Mutli-Year Programme of Work and other ongoing CFS workstreams and priorities.

Women farmers and indigenous women have been uniquely affected by the dual crises of climate change and COVID-19. They play important roles across the food system and often carry the double burden of both domestic and productive responsibilities.

This side event will focus on advancing gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment as it is critical to achieving the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Vision of the Committee of World Food Security (CFS) of ending hunger and ensuring food security and nutrition for all.

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