11:00am – 1:00pm

Panel 1 – Building the basics: eradicating poverty and hunger, and reducing inequality in LDCs 

Moderator: Mr. E. Courtenay Rattray, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS

Keynote speaker: Mr. Máximo Torero, Chief Economist, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (virtual)

Panellists:

• Mr. Martin Mwale: Long-term child nutrition: the complementary relationship between the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Vouchers and health care quality
• Mr. Kolawole Ogundari: Convergence of African Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Growth and climate change impact: Implication on food security in the region (virtual)
• Ms. Bola Amoke Awotide: Do Sahelian Smallholder Farmers Benefit from Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Technologies: An Instrumental Variable Quantile Average Treatment Approach
• Mr. Martin Paul, Jr. Tabe-Ojong: Agricultural commercialization and smallholder poverty: Implications for asset ownership and rural wealth
• Mr. Ricardo Santos: Horizontal and Intersecting Inequalities in Mozambique - 1997 to 2017 (virtual)
• Mr. Jacob Assa: Inequality and Sustainability in the Least Developed Countries (virtual)

Special Guest: Mr. Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

Discussants:

• Ms. Tashi Choden, Planning Officer, Gross National Happiness Commission, Bhutan (virtual) 
• Mr. Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (virtual)

    
Interactive discussion