Session 4: School Meals & Sustainable Food Systems | 2nd School Meals Coalition Global Summit

The session brought out how countries are catalyzing food systems transformation through innovative, environmentally friendly approaches, paving the way to COP 30.
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Moderator:
• 0:00:00 - WFP: Ms. Valerie Guarnieri, Assistant Executive Director, Programme Operations
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Presenting the case study “Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children's health and leverage change in food systems” by the Research Consortium
• 0:04:21 - Research Consortium: Prof. Donald Bundy, Professor of Epidemiology and Development at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Director of the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
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How governments are leveraging school meal programmes as powerful drivers of sustainable food system transformation
• 0:22:03 - Rwanda: H.E. Ms. Irere Claudette, Minister of State for Education
• 0:33:00 - Lesotho: H.E. Prof. Ntoi Rapapa, Minister of Education and Training
• 0:41:00 - Uganda: H.E. Dr. John Chrysostom Muyingo, Minister of State for Higher Education
• 0:48:00 - Guinea-Bissau: H.E. Ms. Queeba Djaite, Minister for Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research
• 1:00:27 - Cambodia: H.E. Dr. Chan Sophea, Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Education
• 1:10:04 - Kenya: Mr. Stephen Barongo, Senior Director, Ministry of Education
• 1:23:50 - Ethiopia: H.E Leulseged Tadese Abebe, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Brazil
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How partners are coming together to strengthen, scale, and sustain these transformations
• 1:33:56 - The Rockefeller Foundation: Mr. Roy Steiner, Senior Vice President, Food Initiative
• 1:35:18 - Novo Nordisk Foundation: Ms. Afton Halloran, Senior Scientific Manager, Global and Environmental Health Development Department
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Closing:
• 1:46:32 - WFP: Ms. Valerie Guarnieri, Assistant Executive Director, Programme Operations