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; Rick White, Chair of the International Agri-Food Network, the focal point for the Private Sector Mechanism of the United Nations Committee on Food Security; Frederic Seppey, Assistant Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Informal North American Regional Conference (INARC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).