Friday 16 October is World Food Day again, the day on which we take action worldwide and advocate for sufficient, healthy and sustainable food for everyone. The Netherlands is participating in a live show that can be followed online in which chefs, experts and food changers start a conversation about the future of our food. The film platform Cinetree will show three high-profile Food Films for free in the weekend following World Food Day. The World Food Day Show 2020 will take place live on Friday, October 16 between 4:00 PM and 5:30 PM.
Program
During the show, hosts Helen Kranstauber and Ikenna Azuike take the audience on a journey through food problems that occur all over the world:such as malnutrition and its causes, obesity due to unhealthy food and healthy and unhealthy forms of agriculture. The urgency of SDG2, but above all what you can do as a consumer to contribute to food security for everyone. A selection of the speakers who will be speaking on October 16:
● Live cooking show: Chef Vanja van der Leeden has been rocking the culinary landscape for years as a cook and writer. Her cookbook 'Indorock' became the Golden Cookbook of 2019. In the World Food Day Show she cooks a delicious Indian dish live with a local twist.
● Food Movies: Hanna Verboom is a filmmaker and social entrepreneur. At the end of 2014 she founded Cinetree:a film platform for stories that last longer than they last. During the World Food Day Show, Hanna takes us to high-profile films about our food system in the Film Talks. After the show, three tasty films can be seen in Cinetree's Food Film Cinema:Wasted! The Story of Food Waste (in collaboration with Together against Food Waste), L'amour des Moules and Mothers of the Land (in collaboration with Oxfam Novib).
● Talk show: What is the global situation with sufficient, healthy and sustainable food for everyone? And what impact does the corona crisis have on food? In this action-oriented talk show, Leonie Barelds (Unicef) and Nout van der Vaart (policy advisor at Hivos) show what is happening worldwide and what you can do in the Netherlands. Eva Koffeman (youth representative for biodiversity and food for the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality) talks about the major role that young people (from millennials to Gen-Z) play in the transition to a more sustainable food system.
● Food change in action: Videos from various food changers worldwide give the show its international character. For example, there are digital contributions from Bram Wits (agricultural council at the Dutch Embassy) from Ghana. Claire van Enk (founder Farm to Feed) speaks to the audience from her current residence in Kenya. Lianne de Bie, director of the Slow Food Youth Network Netherlands (SFYN) and Abdelhamid Idresse of the online platform Boeren voor Buren present the Netherlands.
● Tastemakers around the world: Sufficient, healthy and sustainable food for everyone, that is the ambition! We hear from various tastemakers what this means for them, including Peruvian top chef Palmiro Ocampo.
● Quiz: In the show you can test your food knowledge in the short quiz about the new book Ten Billion Mouths. In this book, more than 80 researchers from Wageningen University and Research provide an insight into their pioneering research into the global food issue.
World Food Day Show 2020
Friday, October 16 from 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Online participation is free. All you have to do is register via www.worldfoodday.nl to secure a spot and stay informed about the program.
