A Tale of Four Hungers

SID Netherlands Chapter in cooperation with NCDO, the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs present the fourth and final lecture in the series: ‘Agriculture, Rural Employment and Inclusive Growth’

Olivier De Schutter will give a lecture entitled A Tale of Four Hungers

About the lecture

How to ensure the realization of the right to food in a world of scarce resources? The lecture will propose a diagnosis on hunger and malnutrition, based on the perspective provided by the human right to adequate food. De Schutter will describe the transitions that are required, and how appropriate institutional frameworks and governance tools can contribute to achieving them.

Alternatives to the dominant food systems of today can emerge. By linking small agricultural producers to the local urban consumers, through short food chains, we can hope to both improve the incomes of the producers and improve access of consumers to fresh and nutritious foods. And by improving the knowledge of agroecological practices, we can delink the production of food from its current dependency on fossil energy. But governance issues are key in making these shifts that are at once urgent, vital, and possible.

The lecture will be held in English.

About Olivier de Schutter

Olivier de Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food since May 2008. He is a Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and at the College of Europe (Natolin). He is also a Member of the Global Law School Faculty at New York University and Visiting Professor at Columbia University.

In 2002-2006, he chaired the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights. From 2004 until 2008 he was the General Secretary of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) on the issue of globalization and human rights.

His publications are in the area of international human rights and fundamental rights in the EU, with a particular emphasis on economic and social rights and on the relationship between human rights and governance.

How to register

Attendance is free but you are asked to register through registration@remove-this.sidnl.org

This Lecture Series is part of ‘Food First’, a programme supported by NCDO aiming to put the food and agriculture-issue at the heart of the political debate.

For more information and other activities, visit: http://www.foodfirst.eu

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