About
Climate Action, in technical collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), hosted a three-part digital event series addressing global food, agriculture, and land use challenges in the face of our climate and health emergencies.
The series was designed in response to the growing demand for new models of multi-stakeholder collaboration to achieve food security, sustainable development and other global goals outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
3-Part Series Hosted on AI-Based Networking Platform

Influence and Interact
with 3,000+ senior attendees from the public, private and NGO sectors on the event platform throughout the 3-part series.

Connect and Network

Engage during Live Sessions
through live polling and audience Q&A’s. 340+ minutes live online thought leadership sessions.
Food Security and the Global Recovery
Can we rebuild global food security to accelerate a resilient recovery?
75th World Food Day: The Future of Food
How will we feed 10 billion people in 2050?
Agribusiness and the SDGs
How can we rethink investments and financial mechanisms to align agribusiness with the SDGs?
Featured Speakers

Eric Soubeiran
CEO
Danone Ecosystem Fund
Eric SOUBEIRAN is Danone’s One Planet and Water Cycle Vice-President and member of the Cycles & Procurement Board. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s sustainability agenda and coordinating on climate change, water resource protection, regenerative agriculture, circular economy and human rights. Eric also serve as the new Chief Executive of the Danone Ecosystem Fund. Eric will promote synergies between Danone and Ecosystem to maximize the social and economic impact of the fund and ensure that innovations and best practices proven in the Ecosystem’s projects are scaled inside and outside Danone.
Eric joined Danone in 2010 in the group’s operations in the Indian sub-continent. During this period, he launched a range of nutritional products designed for the ‘bottom of pyramid’ customers, with an innovative route to market approach. In 2013, Eric joined Danone’s marketing team, in charge of Activia and Vitalinea brands for the French market. In 2014, Eric was appointed director of milk sourcing for Danone in Europe, managing a network of 4,000 dedicated farmers across six European countries during a period of deep transformation in the milk market.
Eric also serves as administrator of the Livelihoods Carbon Fund and the Gold Standards foundation.

Juan Lucas Restrepo
Director General
Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Diane Holdorf
Managing Director, Food & Nature
WBCSD
Diane Holdorf is Managing Director of Food and Nature at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), based in Geneva, Switzerland, since December 2018.
Before joining WBCSD, Diane was Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer for Kellogg Company. She joined Kellogg in May 2008 as Senior Director, Environmental Stewardship and in 2009 was promoted to Vice President, Environmental Stewardship, Health and Safety. In 2011, she was promoted to Chief Sustainability Officer, Vice President Environment, Health & Safety and in 2015, in recognition of the increasing importance of sustainability across the Kellogg business, became Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer to focus full time on advancing Kellogg’s sustainability leadership efforts.
In addition to her role at Kellogg, Ms. Holdorf served on the Advisory Board of We Mean Business, and on the Executive Advisory Board of the Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan.
Prior to joining Kellogg, Ms. Holdorf served as vice president for Delta Consultants (now Antea), a U.S.A-based environment, health and safety and sustainability consulting firm. During her 17 years with Delta Consultants, she served in numerous management and consulting roles, based in the US and in the UK, where she worked with many consumer packaged goods, forest products and manufacturing companies in development and implementation of global programs for corporate responsibility, environmental management and risk management.
Diane’s board experience includes serving as a corporate officer during her years as Managing Director of a UK-based joint venture while with Delta, as well as serving as secretary of the board for Inogen Environmental Alliance, a global business of which Delta was a member.
In 2015, Diane was recognized as a Maize and Wheat Super Woman by CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) as part of the United Nation’s International Women’s Day in 2015. She is also recognized as an Oxfam Sisters on the Planet Ambassador.
Ms. Holdorf received Bachelor’s degrees in Public Communications and in German from Syracuse University. She also completed the Executive MBA Program at the University of St. Thomas.

Malachy Mitchell
Managing Director
Farrelly & Mitchell
Malachy is co-founder and Managing Director of Farrelly & Mitchell. He works with CEOs, executives and leaders from private enterprises and public sector institutions helping to grow their food sector companies and agribusinesses.
Having spent 30 years working in the European, Middle East and international food sectors in various senior management and consulting roles, Malachy knows what is required to strategically organise projects in largescale farming, consumer foods and agri-processing and logistics. His experience in supply chain optimisation across complex market geographies informs the company’s approach of working with clients from planning right through to execution and beyond.
As the Managing Director of Farrelly & Mitchell, he has developed and executed numerous domestic and international market entry, expansion and M&A transactions worldwide on behalf of corporate and government clients.
Prior to co-founding Farrelly & Mitchell, Malachy worked in various senior operational and policy roles in Ireland, UK and the Middle East in poultry meat, produce and dairy sectors for the Kerry Group, Fakieh Poultry, Carton Bros. Ltd and Irish Farmers’ Association.

Viktoria de Bourbon de Parme
Food Transformation Lead
World Benchmarking Alliance

Mike Barry
Chair
The Great Food Challenge
Mike is a leader in sustainable change. One of the pioneers of green business in the corporate world he helped to develop, launch and implement Marks and Spencer’s ground-breaking sustainability programme, Plan A (because there is no Plan B for the one world we have). In ten years, Plan A delivered £750m of net business benefit and over the years won 230 awards.
During his time at M&S he helped evolve Plan A to become a change management programme designed to make sustainability ‘how M&S did business’. The business achieved zero-waste-to-landfill status, moved to 100% renewable electricity and achieved carbon neutrality across its global estate of stores, offices and warehouses.
He helped the business engage in some of the world’s leading collaboration platforms for sustainability such as the World Economic Forum, the Consumer Goods Forum and Business in the Community. His external leadership ensured that Plan A leadership and learning was leveraged into wider change throughout the global economy, including:
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Inaugural winner of the Guardian Sustainable Business Innovator of the year in 2011 after a public vote;
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Co-chair of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Sustainability Steering Group;
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Chair of the World Environment Centre;
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Member of Business in the Community’s Environmental Leadership team;
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Business Fellow at the Smith Centre Oxford University;
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Senior Associate Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership
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Ethical Corporation Honouree 2019
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Trustee at Blueprint for Better Business
Having worked at an international level of business, with charities, with think tanks, and with start-ups he has a broad array of experience. He has proven the necessity of dialogue, trust and the willingness to develop engagement into wide ranging mutually beneficial partnerships. This is vital for the interconnected world we live in.
During his career he has shown exceptional drive, integrity and personal resilience throughout periods of management change, takeover battles and challenging trading. He has developed excellent leadership skills and has demonstrated his ambition and passion to build a more sustainable future.
Upon leaving M&S he formed mikebarryeco ltd in order to support organisations across society and the economy to deliver sustainable change.

Stefan Fürnsinn
Senior Vice President Digital Farming
Yara
Stefan Fürnsinn is Senior Vice President Crop & Digital Solutions, at Yara International.
Passionate about responsibly feeding the world and protecting the planet, Stefan is in charge of managing and scaling the global digital and precision agriculture business in Yara, and for innovating and commercializing digitally-enabled business models. His role is truly global, leading a dynamic and fast growing digital team across all regions and key agricultural markets. The focus lies on designing innovative services and solutions that speak directly to the farmer’s, agronomist’s and food chain’s evolving needs in a shifting world, towards more productive, prospering and sustainable food production.
Stefan holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering as well as a Master Degree in International Business. Before joining Yara, Stefan was a Partner at McKinsey & Company focusing on agriculture and food, and an entrepreneur and scientist in renewable energy.

Joao Campari
Global Lead on Food
WWF International
With the technical collaboration of the

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
Our goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With over 194 member states, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide. We believe that everyone can play a part in ending hunger.
Join us in creating a #ZeroHunger world.
Supporting Partners

Quorn Foods is the leading global meat-free foods brand and manufacturer based in North Yorkshire, UK. Quorn products are made from Mycoprotein – a nutritionally healthy protein that is meat-free and has a low environmental impact. Quorn Foods has a mission to make better protein for you and the planet. We make the world’s diets healthier and more sustainable by helping you to create great tasting meals every day.


Yara
Yara grows knowledge to responsibly feed the world and protect the planet. Supporting our vision of a world without hunger, we pursue a strategy of sustainable value growth, promoting climate-friendly and high-yielding crop nutrition solutions for the world’s farming community and food industry.
Yara’s ambition is to be the Crop Nutrition Company for the Future. We are committed to creating value for our customers, shareholders and society at large, as we work to develop a more sustainable food value chain. To achieve our ambition, we have taken the lead in developing digital farming tools for precision farming, and work closely with partners throughout the food value chain to improve the efficiency and sustainability of agriculture and food production.
Founded in 1905 to solve the emerging famine in Europe, Yara has established a unique position as the industry’s only global crop nutrition company. With our integrated business model and a worldwide presence of around 16,000 employees and operations in over 60 countries, we offer a proven track record of responsible and reliable returns. In 2019, Yara reported revenues of USD 12.9 billion.


Ward Labs
Ward Laboratories, Inc. is an agricultural testing laboratory dedicated to serving agricultural producers throughout the world. We specialize in analyses related to soil, soil health, plant tissue, feed, forages, water, manures, fertilizers, and other special testing products. We aim to provide information needed to make critical production decisions. Participation in proficiency programs and trained, educated personnel ensures accurate, precise, and reliable test results. Ward Laboratories, Inc. is committed to excellent analytical results and service through the dynamics of its quality assurance system, the integrity of its people, and the professionals we employ. Our goal to fully serve the agricultural sector is accomplished through consultation with professional staff before, during, and after testing.
“We are delighted to collaborate with Climate Action as the world battles with climate change, biodiversity loss and COVID-19. These digital dialogues will help us convene and connect together to address The Global Food Challenge and build back better for climate-resilient and sustainable food systems.”
"Climate Action’s digital Roadmap to COP26 has created a platform to help organisations from across the stakeholder spectrum to honour their pledges at a time when face-to-face meetings are not an option. I look forward to the evolution of Climate Action’s Roadmap towards COP26 next year."
"Their events are fantastic because they help bring together all of the people from across different sectors. Whether its different industry sectors, whether it's NGOs, whether it's government, whether it's science and research, they all have lessons to learn from each other."