The World Food Crisis and the Global South

Day 1: The World Food Crisis & the Global South

• Lawrence Haddad , Director, Institute of Development Studies
  The Fault-Lines in Global Food Policy.
• Suman Sahai , Gene Campaign, India,
  Current Challenges to Food Security: Climate Change, Agrofuels and GMOs
• Peter Utting, Deputy Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
  Food Insecurity and Inclusive Development: Is Corporate Social Responsibility a Solution?
• Steve Wiggins , Overseas Development Institute
  Does the Food Price Spike of 07/08 Mean the World Food System is Broken? Causes, Remedies and Prospects for the Future.
• Andrew Dorward , Food Studies Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies
  What should We Learn from the 2007 World Food Crisis?
• Jim Sumberg , New Economics Foundation
  Links between the Food Crisis, Food Security and Social Injustice within the Food System.
• Philip Woodhouse , Manchester University
  Productivity Constraints in African Agriculture.
• Mark Harvey , University of Essex
  Brazilian Prospects: Food and Fuel and Sustainable Economic Growth?

Day 2: The World Food Crisis: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives

• Maximo Torero , Director, Markets, Trade and Institutions Division, International Food Policy
  Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C.
• Peter Rosset , Centre for the Study of Rural Change, Mexico
  The World Food Price Crisis, La Vía Campesina, and Food Sovereignty.
• Canrobert Costa Neto , Federal University, Rio de Janeiro
  The Landless Workers Movement MST/Via Campesina in Brasil and the Food Crisis/Biofuels Question.
• Emily Morris , International Institute for the Study of Cuba, London Metropolitan University
  Food Security in Cuba: Achievements and Problems of a Unique Policy Model?
• Elisa Botella Rodríguez , Institute for the Study of the Americas
  Cuba's Agrarian Policies (1990-2008): An Inward Looking Development Model.
• Duncan McGregor , Royal Holloway University
  Environmental Change and Caribbean Food Security: Recent Hazard Impacts and Domestic Food Production in Jamaica.
• Allessandra Spalletta , Co-ordination Europe-Haiti
  Food Security in Haiti

Co-organised by the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Food Studies Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies.

Funded by the Institute for the Study of the Americas , SOAS, JISLAC and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office .

Organiser: Rahima Begum

Contact email: rb41@soas.ac.uk

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