Webinar Series: Resilient Local Food Supply Chains

The Local Resilience Seminar Series explores building “resilient local food supply chains” by bringing stakeholders together to share ideas, knowledge, evidence, best practices and challenges encountered.  The series will focus on resilience, local food supply and value chains development, home-grown school meals, exploring linkages, especially where there are inter-dependencies.

The series will run every one to two months and profile solutions to benefit vulnerable communities. Organized by the Resilient Local Food Supply Chain Alliance (WFP) and CIP/CGIAR in collaboration with partners. 

Next event:

Title: Challenges & solutions for resilient local food supply chains: A Local Resilience Seminar

When (TBC):  April 23, 24, 25 or 30. 3-4 PM (CET)/5-6 PM (EAT)

Summary: This kickoff session introduces the new Local Resilience Seminar series by exploring the challenges in building resilient local food supply chains, and discussing strategies. Participants will be introduced to the Resilient Local Food Supply Chains Alliance, a partnership involving World Food Program, CGIAR, African Union Development Agency, and other partners.

The series explores topics related to resilience, local food supply and value chains development, home-grown school meals, and more – to drives solutions that benefit vulnerable communities.

Too many live under food insecurity. And current food price volatility and other health, financial and environmental crises have exposed the fragility of our global and local food systems. Building resilient local food supply chains is a key solution requiring integrated and territorial approaches to strengthen short supply chains, boost local production, including improving access to domestic finance for local producers, stimulating the market economy, and addressing both the supply and demand sides of local food systems. This session will introduce these challenges and discuss potential scalable solutions.

Objectives: The webinar will help participants:

• Understand challenges facing local food supply chains.
• Be introduced to The Resilient Local Food Supply Chains Alliance, its mandate, and its partners.
• Explore issues and solutions for local food supply chains.

To join: Invitations will be sent in coming weeks. If you do not receive on, check here for a Zoom link on the day of the event

See all partners, Resilient Local Food Supply Chains Alliance (RLFSC Alliance)