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RIO + 20: High Level Roundtable on 15th and 16th March 2012 in New York Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - Effective action towards the implementation of ecologically, socially and economically sustainable Food Systems

Final List of Participants Governments and Polit ical Groups:

1 Hon. Ms. Terezya L. HUVISA, Minister of State, Vice President’s Office (Environment), The United Republic of Tanzania 2 Hon. Ms. Sally KOSGEI, Minister for Agriculture, Kenya 3 Mr. Markus BÜRLI, Deputy Head, Global Programme Food Security, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation,

Federal Office of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland 4 Mr. Baba DRAME, Sustainable Development Technical Adviser, Sustainable Development Focal Point, Ministry of the

Environment and of the Protection of Nature, Senegal 5 Mr. Knut EHLERS, Section II 2.8 Soil Use and Cultivation, Agriculture, German Federal Environment Agency, Germany 6 Mr. Helmut GAUGITSCH, Head of Unit, Landuse & Biosafety, Environment Agency, Vienna, Austria 7 Ms. Elise H. GOLAN, Director for Sustainable Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Chief Economist,

Washington, D.C. 8 Mr. Kum HANSEUNG, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, New York 9 H.E. Mr. Erik LAURSEN, Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations, New York 10 Ms. Janet KILEL, Personal Assistant to the Hon. Minister Sally Kosgei, Kenya 11 Mr. Amadou MAIGA, Ministry of the Environment and Sanitation, Focal Point CMAE/NEPAD, Mali 12 Mr. Leonard MIZZI, Head of Unit, DG Agriculture-Unit A3, European Commission, Brussels 13 Ms. Julie MORIZET, Permanent Mission of France to the UN, New York 14 Mr. Julius NINGU, Director of Environment, Vice President’s Office, Focal Point Rio, Tanzania 15 Mr. Raphael James Marin OGOUNCHI, Ministry of the Environment, Housing and Town-planning, Permanent Secretary of

National Commission of Sustainable Development, Cotonou, Benin 16 Mr. Do OZAKI, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, New York 17 Mr. Joseph QAMARA, Personal Assistant to the Hon. Minister Terezya L. Huvisa, The United Republic of Tanzania 18 Ms. Tania RAGUZ, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Croatia to the United Nations, Vice-chair of the

Bureau for the Preparatory Process of UNCSD and Representative of the Eastern European States Group, New York 19 Mr. Matthias SCHIKORSKI, Desk Officer Development Affairs, Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations, New

York 20 H.E. Mr. Paul SEGER, Ambassador, Head of the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations, New York 21 Mr. Georg SPARBER, Second Secretary, Permanent Representation of Liechtenstein to the United Nations, New York 22 Mr. Paolo SOPRANO, Director of Sustainable Development Division, Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea of Italy;

Vice-chair of the Bureau for the Preparatory Process of UNCSD (closing) 23 Mr. Pius WENNUBST, Head of ECOSOC Delegation, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Swiss Mission to

the United Nations, New York IGO and United Nations

24 Mr. Yuvan A. BEEJADHUR, Counsellor, New York Office, World Bank 25 Mr. Zak BLEICHER, Liaison Officer, North American Liaison Office, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD),

New York 26 Mr. Melchiade BUKURU, Chief, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Liaison Office, New York 27 Mr. Munyaradzi CHENJE, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), New York 28 Mr. Olivier DE SCHUTTER, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (video-statement), New York/Louvain 29 Mr. Gabriel FERRERO, High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis (HLTF), New York 30 Mr. Peter HOLMGREN, Director, Climate Energy and Tenure Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome 31 Mr. Pedro MEDRANO, Director of the New York Liaison Office, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), New York 32 Ms. Cheryl MORDEN, Director, North American Liaison Office, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), New

York 33 Mr. David NABARRO, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Food Security and Nutrition (video-link), New

York/Geneva/Rome

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RIO + 20: High Level Roundtable on 15th and 16th March 2012 in New York Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - Effective action towards the implementation of ecologically, socially and economically sustainable Food Systems 34 H.E. Mr. Yaya O. OLANIRAN, Minister, Chair of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), Permanent Representative of

the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United Nations, Rome 35 Mr. Janos PASZTOR, Executive Secretary of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Global Sustainability, New York 36 Mr. Taffere TESFACHEW, Director, Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes, United Nations

Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva 37 Ms. Henrietta Elizabeth THOMPSON, Assistant Secretary General and Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Rio +20

Conference on Sustainable Development, New York 38 Ms. Nandhini IYER-KRISHNA, Liaison Officer, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), New York 39 Mr. Achim STEINER, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (video-statement) 40 Ms. Kim VAN SEETERS, Liaison Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome 41 Ms. Anthea WEBB, High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis (HLTF), New York Scientif ic and Academic Institutions

42 Mr. Reiner BRAUN, Executive Director of the Federation of German Scientists (FGS), Berlin 43 Ms. Michelle GRANT, Executive Director World Food System Competence Center, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,

Zurich 44 Mr. Etienne HAINZELIN, Conseiller du Président Directeur Général du Cirad, Paris 45 Ms. Angelika HILBECK, Institute of Integrative Biology IBZ, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich 46 Ms. Birgit KOPAINSKY, Flury & Giuliani ; University of Bergen, Zurich/ Bergen 47 Mr. Urs NIGGLI, Director, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Frick Switzerland 48 Ms. Judi WAKHUNGU, Executive Director, African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Co-Chair IAASTD, Nairobi NGOs, Farmer Organizations and Private Sector

49 Ms. Elisabeth ATANGANA, President, Pan African Farmers Organization (PAFO), Yaoundé 50 Mr. Michael APPLEBY, Scientific Expert of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), Den Haag 51 Ms. Shalini BHUTANI, Legal researcher and policy advocate on trade, agriculture & biodiversity, Asian region, New Delhi 52 Ms. Christine CHEMNITZ, International Agricultural Trade, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin 53 Mr. David EDWARDS, Assistant Director, The Prince’s Charities’ International Sustainability Unit, London (tbc) 54 Mr. Thomas FORSTER, Ms. Linda ELSWICK, International Partners for Sustainable Agriculture, New York 55 Mr. Hans R. HERREN, President of Biovision Foundation and the Millennium Institute, Laureate of the World Food Prize,

Washington/ Zurich 56 Mr. Patrick HOLDEN, CBE Director Sustainable Food Trust, Bristol 57 Ms. Daniela IBARRA-HOWELL, CEO Savory Institute, Boulder Colorado 58 Mr. Robert JORDAN, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), Bonn 59 Mr. Martien LANKESTER, Executive Director, Avalon, Wommel Netherlands 60 Mr. Carlos MARENTES, North American Region, Technical Team, La Via Campesina, Mexico 61 Ms. Jessica ROE, Technical team, La Via Campesina North America, Mexico 62 Ms. Kristina MAYO, Representative to the UN - Shumei International, Koka, Japan 63 Ms. Beverly MC INTYRE, Senior Advisor Food Security and Agriculture, Helen Keller International, New York 64 Mr. Aksel NAERSTAD, Senior Policy Advisor, The Development Fund, International co-coordinator of the More and Better

Network, Oslo 65 Mr. Luca RUINI, HSE&E - Health, Safety, Environment & Energy Director - Barilla G.R. Brothers, Parma (via video-link) 66 Ms. Azra Talat SAYEED, Executive Director, Roots for Equity, Karachi Pakistan 67 Ms. Vandana SHIVA, Right Livelihood Award Recipient, Founder and Director, Navdanya International and Research

Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, New Delhi 68 Mr. Getachew TIKUBET, President, YEHA Institute for Natural Resource Management in East Africa; BioEconomy Africa,

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Organizing Team and Guests

69 Mr. David AMUDAVI, Director, Biovision Africa Trust, Nairobi

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RIO + 20: High Level Roundtable on 15th and 16th March 2012 in New York Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - Effective action towards the implementation of ecologically, socially and economically sustainable Food Systems 70 Mr. Michael BRANDER, Project Manager, Biovision Foundation, Zurich 71 Mr. Stephen CHACHA, External Relations Manager Africa, Dar Es Salaam 72 Mr. Christoph HABERMANN, Representative of Mercator Foundation Switzerland, former State Secretary, Bonn 73 Mr. Konrad MEYER, Senior Policy Advisor, Biovision Foundation, Zurich 74 Ms. Mayumi SAKOH, World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) International, Washington, D.C. 75 Mr. Christopher STAMPAR, Millennium Institute, Washington, D.C. 76 Mr. Nicholas STAMPAR, Millennium Institute, Washington, D.C. 77 Mr. Andreas SCHRIBER, CEO, Biovision Foundation, Zurich 78 Ms. Sonja TSCHIRREN, Project Officer, Biovision Foundation, Zurich 79 Mr. Dirk-Jan VERDONK, World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) Netherlands, Den Haag

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