Nikita Eriksen-Hamel, Deputy Director of Agriculture and Food Systems for Global Affairs Canada, details the importance of a farming system that is both sustainable and capable of keeping up with our population growth. He highlights the need for donors to keep small-scale farmers in mind, as they are key to the wider development landscape. Nikita has been active in the Global Donor Platform for many years, and joins us from Ottawa, Canada.

Nikita Eriksen-Hamel is the Deputy Director of Agriculture and Food Systems for Global Affairs Canada, and a long-time member of the Donor Platform. He provides an overview of Canada’s development priorities as well as concrete examples of donor coordination at global and national levels.

David Laborde, Director of the Agrifood Economics Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), talks about how good data in agriculture and food systems can play a role in reshaping food systems, and why this is important to all of us working towards food security.