World Food Day seminar: Food security, social protection, and living soils

World Food Day seminar: Food security, social protection, and living soils


The Finnish National FAO Committee and the University of Helsinki will host a World Food Day seminar at the University of Helsinki. FAO’s World Food Day theme for this year is ‘Social protection and agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty’.

Experts from different fields will discuss the roles that social protection and healthy soil play in developing countries. Professor Juha Helenius, University of Helsinki, will discuss the importance of soil and Adjunct Professor Markus Kröger will discuss how food sovereignty and agrarian reform can be seen as forms of social protection.

UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Miguel Niño-Zarazúa will discuss social protection in his presentation ‘Social transfers against malnutrition: what do we know about their effectiveness?’. The presentation will be based on research work carried within the UNU-WIDER project ’The economics and politics of taxation and social protection’.

The seminar is free of entrance. Registration by 21 October 2015.

Seminar programme

11:30 Coffee
12:15

Aulikki Hulmi, Seminar Chair, Chair of the Finnish FAO committee

Opening speech
Kimmo Tiilikainen, Minister of Agriculture and the Environment of Finland

Social transfers against malnutrition: What do we know about their effectiveness?
Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow

Feeding soil, feeding people: Ecologically integrated paradigm for sustainable food systems
Juha Helenius, Professor, University of Helsinki

Food sovereignity and agrarian reform as social protection
Markus Kröger, Adjunct Professor, University of Helsinki

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