Register for June 4 Virtual BIFAD Meeting on COVID-19’s Impact on Food Security and Nutrition

The Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD), an advisory committee to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that APLU supports, will convene a virtual public meeting on COVID-19 impacts with leading experts in food security and nutrition. The meeting will examine impacts on all intermediate results of the U.S. Government Global Food Security Strategy, including agricultural productivity, livelihoods, markets, trade and policy actions, food consumption and nutrition, hygiene and resilience. The meeting will take place June 4 from 1:30-3:30pm EDT. Those interested in attending the virtual meeting can learn more and register here.

The meeting will include presentations of credible modeling data about the scale and breadth of anticipated food security impacts in the developing world and a summary spanning near to longer-term interventions and guidance that may help to mitigate COVID-19 impacts. The meeting will also provide leading sources of curated information (e.g., landing pages for information related to the crisis and response). The meeting is intended to help to support decision making by USAID and its partners and stakeholders working to advance food security, nutrition, and resilience at global, regional and national levels.