CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit

SESSION

Tomorrow’s food systems need forests and trees!

How can tree-based systems foster transformative change towards healthy diets for people and our planet? Why do these systems get such little attention? In this session, we highlight some of the evidence for how forests and trees provide healthy foods directly and indirectly. We will then have three speakers from Asia, Latin America, and Africa who will showcase three tree-based interventions that are already improving diets and livelihoods while protecting the natural environment. This will be followed by a panel discussion on how these ideas can be applied more widely in other contexts with questions and answers from the audience. 

Speakers

Terry Sunderland

University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry, Canada

Phrang Roy

The Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty

Alain Touta Traoré

Solidagro, Burkina Faso

Ana Euler

Executive Director, Embrapa
Moderators

Amy Ickowitz

Senior Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF

Stepha McMullin

Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF
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