Programme
During the SDG-conference 'Towards Zero Hunger: Partnerships for Impact' presentations, workshops and dialogues were organised in parallel sessions on three themes:
- Evidence
- Synergies & trade-offs
- Governance
Click here to learn more about the three conference themes. Scroll down to see the conference programme.
The programme:
THURSDAY 30 AUGUST 2018
08.30 | Registration | |
10.00 | Opening of the SDG conference | |
10.30 | High Level Forum 'Global Challenges' moderated by Louise O. Fresco, President WUR | |
12.00 | Introduction to the conference themes by theme chairs | |
12.30 | Lunch break (with poster sessions) | |
13.15 | Optional public lecture by 2018 World Food Prize Laureates | |
14.00 | Parallel sessions (click on session title below for more information): |
15.30 | Break |
16.00 | Parallel sessions: |
18.00 | Conference dinner |
FRIDAY 31 AUGUST 2018
08.30 | Registration |
09.00 | Opening keynotes |
- Shenggen Fan, Director General IFPRI | |
- Rajiv Shah, President Rockefeller Foundation | |
- Carola van Rijnsoever, Ambassador Sustainable Development Ministry of Foreign Affairs - The Netherlands | |
10.00 | Coffee break |
10.30 | Parallel sessions & Side events (click on session title below for more information): |
12.00 | Lunch break (with Foodathon solutions market and poster sessions) |
13.25 | Introduction to the transformative pathways by Ken Giller |
13.55 | Short break to go to parallel sessions |
14.05 | Parallel sessions on Transformative Pathways: |
T1. Behaviour change in food system transformation - Room 1032 | T4: From an NGO perspective: Partnerships towards regenerative agriculture - Room 3020 | T7. Reaching a shared vision for Dutch agriculture in the quest of SDG2 - Room 4032 | SIDE EVENTS | |
T2. Sustainable palm oil: Why not? - Room 3030 | T5. Upscaling Banana Xanthomonas Wilt disease management in Central Africa - Room 2030 | T8: Transforming Nigeria’s vegetable markets: Impacting smallholder farmers through added value and increased productivity (East-West Seeds) - Room 4034 | F6. Wageningen Borlaug Youth Institute - Roundtable discussion (Dutch high schools, WUR, World Food Prize) | |
T3. Scaling-up youth-led programmes - Call to action - Room: The Spot - Forum side | T6. Foresight4Food: the science and politics of exploring the future for anticipatory governance - Room 2035 | |||
15.30 | Break |
16.00 | Building blocks facilitated by Ken Giller |
Proposed pathways to achieve the SDGs by Emmy Simons, Jeffrey Sayer, Simon Bush and Rita Kimani | |
16.45 | The Next Generation: With the Borlaug Youth Institute award ceremony |
- Kenneth Quinn, President World Food Prize Foundation | |
- Carola Schouten, Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality - The Netherlands | |
17.30 | Closing ceremony & drinks |