Food Security Center

World Food Day Colloquium 2019
„Food Security and Trade in a
Period of Change and Innovation”

 

Wednesday, October 16, 2019, Balcony Hall, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

This year’s World Food Day Colloquium, organized by the Food Security Center (FSC) focused on trade. On the one hand, global trade with agricultural and food products offers a huge potential for contributing to food security, for example by enabling the provision of diverse food sources. On the other hand, trade may also jeopardize local and regional agricultural markets and producers, especially in developing countries. Further, the carbon footprint of food products and, thus, the impact on climate change, but also food scandals have increased the awareness to focus again more on local and regional products. This might be true for developed countries, but how can local/regional trade in developing countries become strengthened? Can the complexity of trade, climate change, and food security become a sustainable system?

The World Food Day Colloquium offered a unique platform for international FSC-partners, invited stakeholders and scientists from Hohenheim who are actively involved in answering these questions to present their perspectives, discuss and exchange their achievements at the World Food Day Colloquium 2019 (#wfdc2019).

Young scientists from developing countries and funded by FSC gave insights into their research. The World Food Day Colloquium 2019 ended with a panel discussion during which experts debated the specific roles of trade with agricultural and food products on global food security.

As a special highlight, the “Justus von Liebig Award for World Nutrition 2019” was granted by the Foundation fiat panis.

Video-transmission was offered in Aula for those, who was less lucky to get a place at the center of action at the Balcony Hall of the Hohenheim Palace. Interested persons outside the University could follow the World Food Day Colloquium even from remote areas via the live stream on the FSC page on Facebook.

Program

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8:00 - 8:30 Arrival & Registration Foyer
8:30 - 9:00 Opening
 Balcony Hall
Welcome Address

Prof. Dr. Stephan Dabbert
President, University of Hohenheim

Prof. Dr. Reiner Doluschitz
Director, Food Security Center (FSC), University of Hohenheim

9:00 - 9:30 GHI 2019 Balcony Hall
Global Hunger Index 2019
Bettina Iseli
Programmes Director, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, Bonn, Germany
9:30 - 10:30 Balcony Hall
Changes in Global Agricultural Trade and Potential Impacts on Global Food Security

Prof. Dr. Martina Brockmeier & Dr. Kirsten Boysen-Urban
Department of International Agricultural Trade and Food Security, University of Hohenheim

Keynote:
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2018: Agricultural Trade, Climate Change and Food Security

Dr. Andrea Zimmermann
Economist, Trade and Markets Division, Food Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Foyer
11:00 - 12:30 Award Ceremony by Foundation fiat panis
 Balcony Hall
Justus von Liebig Award for World Nutrition 2019

Prof. Dr. Achim Dobermann
Director and Chief Executive Rothamsted Research

Laudation

Dr. Ursula Schäfer-Preuss
Member of the Jury of the Justus von Liebig-Award
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break Foyer
13:30 - 14:00 Young Scientists Session Balcony Hall
Approaches of young scientists from University of Hohenheim and the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany

Powell Mponela, Shova Shrestha, Marwa Shumo, Habtamu Demilew Yismaw, Vladimir Korovin
14:00 - 15:00 Balcony Hall
Keynote:
Enablers of Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains
Dr. Pedcris M. Orencio
Head of Research and Development at the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), Los Baños, Philippines
How Can Development Cooperation Support Sustainable Trade Development

Dr. Gerd Fleischer
Group Leader‚ Wertschöpfung, Innovation, Beschäftigung, Department of Rural Development and Agriculture, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Bonn, Germany

Fairtrade – Origin, Impacts and Outlook
Martin Schüller
Development Policies Manager, Standards, M&E, Politics &Environment, TransFair e.V. (Fairtrade Deutschland), Köln, Germany
15:00 - 15:30 Panel Balcony Hall
Discussion with experts: Does trade contribute to food security?

Dr. Kirsten Boysen-Urban
Department of International Agricultural Trade and Food Security, University of Hohenheim

Dr. Andrea Zimmermann
Economist, Trade and Markets Division, Food Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy

Dr. Pedcris M. Orencio
Head of Research and Development at the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), Los Baños, Philippines

Dr. Gerd Fleischer
Group Leader‚ Wertschöpfung, Innovation, Beschäftigung, Department of Rural Development and Agriculture, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Bonn, Germany

Martin Schüller
Development Policies Manager, Standards, M&E, Politics & Environment, TransFair e.V. (Fairtrade Deutschland), Köln, Germany
15:30 - 15:45 Closing Balcony Hall
Dr. Andrea Fadani
CEO, Foundation fiat panis, Ulm, Germany
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 The whole event was streamed live on our Facebook page