Registrations are now open for the BCFN Foundation International Forum on Food and Nutrition which will be held on September 28 in New York, at Barnard College - Columbia University.

What impact and contribution do food systems and nutritional models have on achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)?

How can we ensure healthy nutrition while protecting the Planet and ensuring peace and prosperity for all?

The International Forum on Food and Nutrition held in New York – immediately following the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA73) – and organized in collaboration with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN), will try to answer these questions.

The conference will be divided in three sessions:

The first will focus in detail on the three paradoxes that clearly highlight the contradictions of our food system: hunger vs obesity; competition for natural resources between people, animals, and vehicles, and food waste and loss. In particular, we will analyze the current global nutrition crisis, as 815 million people around the world are starving while obesity levels keep rising.

The second session will examine the central role that agriculture, nutrition, and food currently plays, and will continue to play in the future, on migration, in order to develop sustainable food systems and promote development in rural areas.

The third session will be dedicated to concrete solutions, from a global and local perspective, to move towards sustainable urban food systems, promoting active participation and encouraging discussion.

The New York Forum is the second appointment set by the BCFN Foundation for 2018, in fact, for the first time, this year in addition to the Milan edition (November 27 and 28, 2018), the Forum was also held in Brussels, on June 6.

Since 2009, the objective behind the organization of BCFN Foundation main annual event has been to promote exchanges between Science, Politics, and Society, on a national and international level, and provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary discussions on nutrition and sustainability, because there are questions about food that seem to involve a remote future, but the answers are needed today.