Gender Equity and Human Security
Food Crisis and Food Security: During the early months of 2008, food prices have shot up around the world leading to riots in over 20 developing countries. This is a global crisis that inflicts high costs on the poor in general and women and children who are over-represented among the poor. Some useful material on the crisis and related issues is available on the following websites:
Helping Women Respond to the Global Food Crisis: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know
International Food Policy Research Institute [IFPRI]
Food Agriculture Organization [FAO]
World Food Programme [WFP]
The Economist, The Silent Tsunami, April 2008
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Graph from IFPRI based on data from the FAO and IMF
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Spring 2009 WGGP Events
Forum on Global Food Security
Wednesday, February 18
Noon - 3:00 pm
Room 404, Illini Union
1401 W. Green St., Urbana
Powerpoint presentations in PDF accessible below:
Keynote Speaker: Robert Thompson,
Agricultural and Consumer Economics, UI,
Achieving Global Food Security: Agricultural Development and Trade Policy Needs;
John Ulimwengu,
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC:
A Blueprint for African Agricultural Development;
Tom Bassett,
Department of Geography, UI:
The Geography of World Hunger;
Noreen Sugrue,
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives, UI:
Global Food Insecurities:
Maternal and Child Health Consequences;
Paul McNamara,
Agricultural and Consumer Economics and Division of Nutritional Sciences, UI:
Food Security in the Context of HIV and AIDS;
Roundtable and Audience Discussion,
Moderator: Gale Summerfield,
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program;
Sponsored by WGGP, ACES Global Connect, Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Human and Community Develoment, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Center for African Studies, and International Programs and Studies.
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Wednesday-Friday, March 4-6, 2009,
Joint Area Centers Symposium
on A New Green Revolution?:
Meeting Global Food and Energy Demands
Keynote Speaker: Per Pinstrup-Anderson,
Professor of Entrepreneurship, Cornell University,
From Food Crisis to Sustainable Food Security:
Can we get there from here?
Chancellor's Ballroom, I-Hotel Conference Center
(1900 South First Street, Champaign)
Program Details
Sponsored by Area Studies Centers, WGGP, CIBER, ACES, and others.
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Past Events
February
14, Thursday, 9:30 a.m.: Roundtable
Discussion on Bioenergy:
Strategies for Mitigating the Food Versus Fuel Controversy,
with special guest Joachim
von Braun, Director General of the International
Food Policy Research Institute (IPPRI), Washington, DC, Room
612, Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), 1206 W. Gregory Drive,
Urbana, Featured Panelists: Hans Blaschek,
Director for the Center for Advanced Bioenergy Research (CABER),
UIUC; Madhu Khanna, Professor of Agricultural
and Consumer Economics, UIUC; Gale Summerfield,
Director, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, UIUC; Bill
Worek, Director of the Energy Resource Center, UIC. Moderator:
Jurgen Scheffran, CABER. To attend, RSVP to 244-2295
or heap@uiuc.edu before Feb. 11.
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MillerComm
Lecture:
Biofuels and the World Food Situation
Joachim
von Braun
Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- a member of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
(CGIAR),
February 14, 2008, Thursday, 4:00
p.m.
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
sponsored by ACES Global Connect, WGGP and others.
Using
more of the world’s crops as energy sources could threaten
food supplies to those people who are most in need, especially
at prices that are competitive on the world market. Joachim von
Braun assesses opportunities and risks in the development of bioenergy
to discuss the changing role of the United States in assisting
famine intervention worldwide. Dr. von Braun's expertise leading
IFPRI's efforts to provide research-based sustainable solutions
for ending hunger and malnutrition, and his previous position as
director of the Center for Development Research and professor of
Economics and Technological Change at the University of Bonn, Germany,
will bring a unique perspective on a variety of issues to our campus.
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