Facing Climate Change with Improved Nutrition

Namukolo Covic, ILRI Director General’s Representative to Ethiopia, will be a keynote speaker.

This session explores the investment challenges and opportunities for transformation while protecting indigenous and traditional food systems under climate change to support optimal nutrition. As climate impacts intensify, these systems, rich in biodiversity and local knowledge, face disruption, threatening both nutrition and cultural heritage. The discussion will highlight the critical need for localized climate information and understanding of the interconnections of climate and nutrition for adaptation of food practices to conditions never seen before, and the risks of scaling solutions without grounding them in local realities. Participants will examine how locally derived knowledge can inform resilient, nutritionsensitive adaptation strategies and how policy, program and finance frameworks must evolve to support bottom-up approaches. The session will foster cross-sectoral dialogue to bridge local action with national and global processes, ensuring nutrition is recognized as a climate imperative. 

Organizer: SNV, AGRA, Global Citizens, CGIAR, HKI, Kick-Start, Tufts and Cornell University, SDC