Time: 16:00 GMT-5 (Lima time) / 23:00 CET

Released last September ahead of the UN Food Systems Summits, IFAD’s Rural Development Report is a call to build sustainable food systems and provides a roadmap to do this.

Through comprehensive discussion, this event will disseminate the RDR’s messages among Latin American and Caribbean decision-makers, including:

• Esteban Valenzuela, Minister of Agriculture, Chile
• Bernardo Manzano, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Ecuador
• Víctor Villalobos, Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mexico
• Rodrigo Figueroa, Dean, Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering, PUC
• Julio Berdegué, Regional Representative for LAC, FAO
• Dalila Cervantes, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD
• Gustavo Anríquez, Department of Agricultural Economics, PUC
• Rossana Polastri, Regional Director for LAC, IFAD
• Romina Cavatassi, Lead Economist for Research and Impact Assessment Division, IFAD

The event will be held in Spanish with Portuguese interpretation.

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