The consequences of a more unpredictable and riskier water cycle detailed in the IPCC AR6 report, demands urgent action if we are to meet future food and water needs. While resilient food systems and sustainable healthy diets for all call for much larger water use, these resources are limited and needed for other vital functions. Water use in food systems needs to be brought within the limits of planetary boundaries and reflect the “new normal” hydrological conditions.

If innovations are harnessed and systems carefully managed, transformations in food-water practices and policies can bring climate mitigation and adaptation, and a social and environmental space that considers water and food needs of people alongside that of the ecosystems that provision them.

Achieving transformations of water resilient food systems will require a compact between national and local government, communities and the private sector that bring together bundled solutions that integrate technology, data services, enhanced governance and policy.

This session will bring together policy and law makers, farmers and water professionals, financiers, insurers and donors, implementers and researchers from across water and food systems who are tackling challenges of the climate and biodiversity crises. The opening framing will highlight the challenges faced by ministers and law makers in Costa Rica and small island states such as Hawaii. The Riverside Chat will then explore these issues in more detail drawing on experience of leaders from different settings from across the world. In the final part of the session there will be a call to action followed by a focus on solutions that can be used to help build resilience in food and water systems.

13.00 Welcome James Dalton - Facilitator – Director of Global Waters Program IUCN
13.02 The challenge of climate change for meeting water and food security needs
Cynthia Barzuna Gutierrez, Vice Minister Water and Seas, Costa Rica
Michael Wilson - Supreme Court Justice of Hawaii

13.10 – 13.55 Riverside Chat: How do we build water resilience in food systems?
Mark Smith – Moderator – Director General IWMI
V Ravichandran – Farmer, Board Member of Global Farmers Network, India
0aren Ross - Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture,
Ronnie Murungu - Regional Programs Manager East Africa and Ethiopia Wateraid
Claudia Sadoff- Managing Director, Research Delivery and Impact CGIAR
Andrew Roby - Senior Water Security Adviser, FCDO
Sulton Rahimzoda - Chairman, Executive Committee International Fund for Saving Aral Sea

13.55-14.00 Call to Action – Facing the challenges to realize Water Resilient Food Systems
Lifeng Li, Director Land and Water FAO

14.00-14.27 The solution space – what can we do and how can we scale to bring the impact needed?
Julie Ladel - Moderator – FAO Land & Water Division
Lifeng Li – Director Land and Water, FAO-UN
Thomas Iseman - Director of Water Scarcity and Markets, Global Freshwater Program, TNC
Marcel Andriesse - Senior Underwriter Agriculture, Vice President SwissRe
Hubert Jenny Senior - Infrastructure Specialist, Green Climate Fund
Rachael McDonnell - Deputy Director General IWMI

14.27 Concluding remarks John Matthews - Executive Director AGWA

Convenors
CGIAR/IWMI, FAO,IUCN, AGWA, GRP, Global Farmers Network

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