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The Right to Food:
Organized by Global Policy Forum and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
How Can the UN Respond to the Global Food Crisis?April 23, 2008
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
German House, 2nd Floor, 871 UN Plaza, New York, NYProgram
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). Co-Sponsors
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