Organized by Global Policy Forum and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

 

A New Era of World Hunger? – The Global Food Crisis Analyzed (July 2008)

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April 23, 2008
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
German House, 2nd Floor, 871 UN Plaza, New York, NY

Program

8:30 – 9:00 AM    Registration and Coffee

9:00 – 9:15    Welcome

H.E. Martin Ney, Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN

Juergen Stetten, Director, FES New York

James A. Paul, Executive Director, GPF

9:15 – 9:45    Keynote Speaker: Introductory Remarks

Joachim von Braun, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

 

Morning Session: The Current State of World Hunger

9:45 – 11:30    Panel 1: Trade, Population Growth and Rural Development

Katarina Wahlberg, Social and Economic Policy Program Coordinator, Global Policy Forum

John Bongaarts, Vice President, Population Council

Ví­ctor Suárez, Executive Director, Asociación Nacional de Empresas Comercializadoras del Campo (ANEC, Mexico)

Chair: Juergen Stetten (FES New York)

11:30 – 11:45    Coffee Break

11:45 – 1:00 PM    Panel 2: Climate Change, Biofuel Production and Consumption

Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Center For Climate Systems Research

Tad W. Patzek, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Anna Lappé, Co-Founder, Small Planet Institute

Chair: H.E. Mr. Claude Heller, Ambassador of Mexico to the UN

1:00 – 2:00    Lunch Break

 

Afternoon Session: How Can the UN Respond?

2:00 – 4:00    Panel 3: Policy Responses

Henk-Jan Brinkman, Chief, Food Security Policy and Markets, Policy Planning and Strategy, World Food Program (WFP)

Beatrice Rogers, Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer, Head of the Policy Development and Studies branch, UN Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Fred Mousseau, Humanitarian Policy Advisor, Oxfam

John Russell, Lead Sector Specialist, Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, World Vision, US

Chair: James A. Paul (Global Policy Forum)

4:00 – 4:30    Concluding Comments

Renate Wilke-Launer, Journalist (Germany).

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