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Add to Calendar 20/06/2015 09:30 20/06/2015 17:30 Africa/Casablanca Expo 2015 - Conference on linking food security to sustainable agricultural policies in the Mediterranean: The expert view EXPO – CASCINA TRIULZA, Milan, Italy In the context of the Expo Milano 2015, OCP Policy Center and the Istituto Affairi Internazionali (IAI) are hosting a series of convening around one of the central themes of Expo 2015: Feeding the Planet. This series will consist of three events in which different stakeholders will discuss the link between food security and sustainable agricul... Not specified OCP Policy Center contact@ocppc.ma false DD/MM/YYYY
Saturday, June 20, 2015 - 09:30 to 17:30

Expo 2015 - Conference on linking food security to sustainable agricultural policies in the Mediterranean: The expert view

EXPO – CASCINA TRIULZA, Milan, Italy

In the context of the Expo Milano 2015, OCP Policy Center and the Istituto Affairi Internazionali (IAI) are hosting a series of convening around one of the central themes of Expo 2015: Feeding the Planet. This series will consist of three events in which different stakeholders will discuss the link between food security and sustainable agricultural policies in the Mediterranean.

This first event is a day of dialogue and scientific investigation on the link between food security and agricultural challenges with representatives from the world of research, academia and the private sector. 

During this event, OCP Policy Center and IAI will circulate and discuss the results of the joint research on these topics, conducted throughout 2014, outside the inner circle of researchers, academics and practitioners, with the objective of promoting reflection and discussion about some key aspects of the general theme of Expo 2015 such as the link between sustainable agricultural policies and food security.

 

PROGRAM

 
09:30 – 10:00

Welcome coffee and Registration of participants

10:00 – 10:15

Introductory Remarks

Ettore Greco, Director, IAI, Rome
Representative of the OCP Policy Center, Rabat

10:15 – 11:30

The Food Security Challenge in the Mediterranean: The Politicaleconomy Dimension 

CHAIR

Maria Cristina Paciello, Senior Fellow, Mediterranean and Middle East Programme, IAI, Rome

PANELISTS

Michel Petit, Associate Professor, CIHEAM-Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Montpellier
Moez El Shohdi, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, The Egyptian Food Bank, Cairo
Eugenia Ferragina & Giovanni Canitano, Senior Research Fellows, Istituto di Studi sulle Società del Mediterraneo - CNR, Naples

Open discussion

11:30 – 11:45

Coffee Break

11:45 – 13:00

Key Determinants of Food Security

CHAIR

Rachid Doukkali, Senior Fellow, OCP Policy Center and Professor, IAV Hassan II Institute, Rabat

PANELISTS

Daniela Corona, Senior Teaching assistant at the Law Department of the College of Europe, Bruges
Pandi Zdruli, Senior Research Scientist, CIHEAM-Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Bari
Ghada Ahmed, Senior Research Analyst, Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness, Duke University, USA                        

Open discussion

13:30 – 14:15

Lunch
14:15 – 16:15

Debating Food Security from the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Perspectives

CHAIR

Omar Aloui, Visiting Professor of Spatial and Regional Economics, Mohamed V University, Rabat

PANELISTS

Fidele Byiringiro, Economic Affairs Officer, UN ESCWA - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia - Beirut
Martin Keulertz, Research Fellow, Texas A&M WEF Nexus Research Group & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Life Sciences, Albrecht Daniel Thaer- Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Division of Environmental Governance, Berlin
Nicolò Sartori, Senior Fellow, Security-Defence and Energy Programmes, IAI, Rome
Matteo Bartolini, President CEJA, the European Council of Young Farmers, Brussels 

Representative from the private sector

Open discussion

16:15 – 16:30

Conclusions

Representative of the OCP Policy Center, Rabat
Silvia Colombo, Senior Research Fellow, Mediterranean and Middle East Programme, IAI, Rome

16:30

End of the seminar

 

About IAI:

The Istituto Affairi Internazionali is a non-profit organization, the IAI is funded by individual and corporate members, public and private organizations, major international foundations, and by a standing grant from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Institute's main objective is to promote an understanding of the problems of international politics through studies, research, meetings and publications, with the aim of increasing the opportunities of all countries to move in the direction of supranational organization, democratic freedom and social justice.

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