Hunger, Food & (Agroecological) Alternatives

Date
From: 12 December 2011 09:30
Till: 12 December 2011 20:00

Location:
ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, Den Haag

Description
A one day colloquium at ISS

Co-organized by the Transnational Institute (TNI), the Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS) and the Land Deal Politics Initiatives (LDPI), the Colloquium brings together some of the world’s leading radical thinkers and activists around the issues of food and the future of farming.

Some of the questions this day-long colloquium will address are:

Can we feed the world and achieve economic development while conserving ecosystems and improving the livelihoods of peasants and the rural poor?
How do we understand and tackle the interlinked agrarian and environmental crises?
What types of policies create sustainable development that guarantees justice, equality and autonomy for poor and marginalized communities?
What types of food movements have emerged and why, and with what challenges?

Registration

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Programme

9:30 – 9:40	Opening Remarks, Ben White, Colloquium Chair & ICCO
9:40 – 10:30	Tony Weis, University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada 'The Meat of the Global Food Crisis' Plenary Discussion Chair: Eric Vanhaute, University of Ghent
10:30 - 11:20	Frances Moore Lappé, 'Small Planet Institute, New York Cultivating an EcoMind, We Know How to End Hunger' Plenary Discussion Chair: Bridget O’Laughlin, ISS
11:20 - 12:10	Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Wageningen University, Netherlands 'Social struggles aiming at the construction of new markets: a comparative analysis from China, Brazil and the European Union' Plenary Discussion Chair: tba
12:10 - 13:30	Lunch break
13:30 - 14:40	Robin Broad, American University, Washington DC, USA 'Food for a Rooted Future' Martha Robbins, National Farmers’ Union of Canada & La Via Campesina Plenary Discussion Chair: tba
14:40 - 15:30	Miguel Altieri, University of California, Berkeley 'The agroecological revolution in Latin America: rescuing nature, ensuring food sovereignty and empowering peasants' Plenary Discussion Chair: Laurence Roudart, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
15:30 - 15:45	Coffee break
15:45 - 16:45	Eric Holt-Gimenez, Food First, Oakland, California 'Convergence in Diversity: Food Movements and the transformation of our food systems' Plenary Discussion Chair:
16:45 - 17:30	Coffee break & book launch/book signing: Frances Moore Lappe, 'Ecomind' Very short remarks by: tba. Eric Holt-Gimenez, 'Food Movements Unite!' Very short remarks by: tba
17:30 - 18:00	Break
18:00 - 20:00	Olivier de Schutter, UN Rapporteur for the Right to Food 'Tale of Four Hungers' Discussant: Frances Moore Lappe Chair: Max Spoor, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
20:00 -	Drinks in the Atrium