President to address opening session of World Food Forum in Rome

Michael D Higgins will also have private audience with Pope Francis

President expected to say it is essential to move past reactive emergency responses in responding to food security challenges, . Photograph: Ryan Byrne/InphoMr Higgins will also meet the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, at the Quirinal Palace and hold bilateral meetings with the heads of each of the three Rome-based United Nations agri-food and food security organisations.

He will also participate in a number of cultural engagements, including meeting the Irish community, laying a wreath to honour the late Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, and attending the exhibition Ireland And The Birth Of Europe at the Pontifical Irish College.

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