Enhancing entrepreneurship and innovation for plant-based and climate-resilient food systems
10th November, 2022 | 1.00 p.m. – 2.15 p.m. EEST
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
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In the context of climate change, there is an urgent need to transition towards more resilient, climate-friendly, sustainable, and ethical food systems which are built on principles of inclusion and participation. Entrepreneurship and innovation can contribute to economic empowerment, support vulnerable groups and communities, and build long-term resilience at the local, national, and global level. In particular, women, youth, and vulnerable rural communities often lack access to the skills, resources, and knowledge to effectively engage in entrepreneurship that could diversify their livelihoods and empower them to strengthen local economies. This session aims to identify needs and opportunities for scaling up innovation and entrepreneurship support for plant-based food systems, including through capacity-building, skill development, finance, research and development, technical support, incubators, accelerators, an enabling policy and regulatory environment, and multi-actor partnerships.
Objectives
- Creating awareness on effective approaches to enhance innovation and entrepreneurship support for resilient and plant-based food systems, focusing on the role of different actors, the enabling environment, capacity-building, and research and development.
- Exchanging knowledge on existing initiatives and good practices related to an inclusive, participatory, and just food systems transition that aims at long-term resilience and sustainability.
- Collecting experiences, insights, success stories, and challenges faced from a variety of stakeholders, including the public sector, the private sector, civil society, community-based organizations, women- and youth-led organizations, youth, researchers, and media.
- Highlighting case studies from different countries and organizations.
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