{"id":98603,"date":"2021-08-20T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T14:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=98603"},"modified":"2021-08-20T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T14:22:06","slug":"the-un-food-systems-summit-has-confirmed-that-the-summit-will-take-place-on-thursday-september-23-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2021\/08\/the-un-food-systems-summit-has-confirmed-that-the-summit-will-take-place-on-thursday-september-23-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The UN Food Systems Summit has confirmed that the Summit will take place on Thursday, September 23, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1404px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>MEDIA ADVISORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>UN Food Systems Summit<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The UN Food Systems Summit has confirmed that the Summit will take place on:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Thursday, September 23<\/strong><strong>, 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held during the UN General Assembly in New York and will take the form of a virtual event.<\/p>\n<p>The Summit will follow the three-day <a href=\"https:\/\/unfoodsystems.org\/\">Pre-Summit<\/a> gathering in Rome last week (July 26-28), during which Amina J. Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General, outlined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/content\/dsg\/statement\/2021-07-28\/un-deputy-secretary-generals-remarks-the-closing-plenary-of-the-pre-summit-for-the-food-systems-summit-delivered\">expectations<\/a> for the Summit, which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A statement of action from the UN Secretary-General<\/li>\n<li>A compendium of the Summit\u2019s two-year preparations<\/li>\n<li>National dialogues and pathways for food systems to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030<\/li>\n<li>Coalitions cutting across the five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/food-systems-summit\/action-tracks\">Action Tracks<\/a> and incorporating the four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/food-systems-summit\/levers-of-change\">Levers of Change<\/a> around key areas<\/li>\n<li>A follow-up and review process supported by the UN and its agencies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details for media accreditation will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes to editors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact <a href=\"mailto:FSScommunications@un.org\">FSScommunications@un.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UN Food Systems Summit was announced by the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on World Food Day last October as a part of the Decade of Action for delivery on the SDGs by 2030. The aim of the Summit is to deliver progress on all 17 of the SDGs through a food systems approach, leveraging the interconnectedness of food systems to global challenges such as hunger, climate change, poverty and inequality. More information about the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit and list of Advisory Committee and Scientific Group members can be found online:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/foodsystemssummit\">https:\/\/www.un.org\/foodsystemssummit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}