23 October 2020 - Side event: Food systems in the time of Covid-19: North American perspectives on how the FAO can contribute to greater resilience. Pictured (from left): FAO Director General QU Dongyu; Nettie Wiebe, North American Focal Point for the Civil Society and Indigenous People's Mechanism of the United Nations Committee on Food Security; Aaron Fowler, Chief Agriculture Negotiator and Director General, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Ted McKinney, United States Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs; Ambassador Alexandra Bugailiskis, Permanent Representative of Canada to the FAO;Ambassador Kip Tom, Permanent Representative of United States to the FAO,; FAO Deputy Director General Beth Bechdol; Rick White, Chair of the International Agri-Food Network; and Frederic Seppey, Assistant Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Informal North American Regional Conference (INARC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).