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Cities on the Frontline: Resilient Food Systems

18 June 2020
08:30
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The 15th Session of Cities on the Frontline focuses on ‘Resilient Food Systems’. The speakers are David Jácome Pilot, Chief Resilience Officer of the City of Quito and Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank President along with a special co-host, Roy Steiner, Senior Vice President for the Food Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation.
 
Please register here
 
Cities in the Frontline is jointly organized by the Global Resilient Cities Network and the World Bank City Resilience Program. For access to the previous sessions’ materials, please see this page that is being updated regularly.
 
Questions about the Speaker’s Series, additional registration requests, or related items can be directed to Nini Purwajati at info@resilientcitiesnetwork.org
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