3-6 December 2017. Cape Town, South Africa. The 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security in association with the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security and the Universities of Pretoria and the Western Cape, brought together leaders from industry and academia to exchange and share their experiences, present research results, explore collaborations, and to spark new ideas, with the aim of developing new projects and exploiting new technology for food security.
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The five core conference themes reflect an integrated approach to identifying solutions to the complex global challenge of food security:
Extracts of the programme:
3 December
Australia Africa Universities Network Meeting
What strategies work for food and nutritional security and gender equality in agriculture research and development ?
Chair: Prof Karlheinz W Knickel Universidade de Évora, Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas (ICAAM), Portugal
Science of scaling: connecting the pathways of agricultural research and development to improve rural livelihoods
Sustainable agricultural intensification: How to make it happen in Africa
Foresight for decision-making on food security in Africa
What agriculture is needed for sustainable food systems?, Dr Hans Herren, IPES-FoodThe five core conference themes reflect an integrated approach to identifying solutions to the complex global challenge of food security:
- Food creation
- Food safety and bio security
- Food loss and waste
- Food in a changing society
- Food utilization
Prof Julian May, director of @FoodSecurity_za, closes the Conference by announcing the launch of the UNESCO Chair in African Food Systems |
3 December
Australia Africa Universities Network Meeting
- F. Swanepoel, University of Pretoria, South Africa,
- J. Hearn, Member of Advisory Group on Australia Africa Relations, Australia
- Chair: Prof Wolfgang Bokelmann Division Economics of Horticultural Production, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- M. Krawinkel, Justus-Liebig-University, Germany
- E. Mitcham, University of California Davis, USA
- W. Oluoch-Kosura, University of Nairobi, Kenya
- S. Stöber, S. Huyskens-Keil, Humboldt University, Germany
- E. Gogo, Egerton University Kenya, Kenya
- M. Abukutsa, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
What strategies work for food and nutritional security and gender equality in agriculture research and development ?
- Chair: Professor Alice Pell Cornell University, USA
- S. Cole World Fish, Sierra Leone
- M. Miruka CARE, USA
- J. Njuki International Development Research Centre, Kenya
- M. Mentz University of Pretoria, South Africa
- S. Ndema Mwamakamba Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network, South Africa (FANRPAN)
Chair: Prof Karlheinz W Knickel Universidade de Évora, Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas (ICAAM), Portugal
- M. Nganwani Tia, Savannah Young Farmers Network (SavaNet), Ghana
- Q. Naidoo AfriGrow NPC, South Africa
- M.R. Méndez, Universidade de Évora, Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas (ICAAM), Portugal
- M. Redman, James Hutton Institute (JHI), UK
- Vlachopoulou, Consulting S.R.L .Romania
- R.W. Nartey Yeboah, University for Development Studies (UDS), Ghana
Science of scaling: connecting the pathways of agricultural research and development to improve rural livelihoods
Sustainable agricultural intensification: How to make it happen in Africa
Foresight for decision-making on food security in Africa
4 December
- Keynote Investing in potential: Africa’s people and land feeding the world, Adipala Ekwamu, Executive Secretary, Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)
- The future of farming: Who will produce our food?- Ken Giller, Wageningen Centre for Agroecology and Systems Analysis, The Netherlands
- Unseen fungal pathogens threaten biosecurity and trade, Professor Pedro Crous, The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, The Netherlands
The Swaminathan Lecture series aims at promoting the work of a senior researcher that has devoted his life and his career to working on agriculture and food issues and over the course of their career have come to work on sustainable food systems, showing an open mind to new dimensions of the subject.
- Chair: Dr Emile Frison, Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso
- What agriculture is needed for sustainable food systems? H. Herren, Biovision Foundation, Switzerland
Rethinking public policies for food security: Moving from sectorial to territorial approaches, Dr Bruno Losch, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and CIRAD, France
Food creation agricultural productivity and livestock
6 December
- The Malabo Montpellier panel and forum, Prof. Sheryl Hendriks, Member of the Malabo Montpellier Panel and Director of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Review of SDG 2 by the UN high level political forum in July and the identification of critical and emerging issues by the HLPE, Dr Patrick Caron, Cirad, Chair of the High-Level Panel of Experts of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security, France
- Recent developments in food and nutrition security on the African continent, Prof. Mandivamba Rukuni, Director, BEAT Doctoral Academy, South Africa
- 9th GCHERA Global Conference and World Agriculture Prize, Prof. John Kennelly, President, GCHERA World Agriculture Prize, Canada
Closing plenary: Food in the future
High level panel of experts provided their insights on the future of food in the world, incorporating the insights shared over the course of the conference. A moderator will provide commentary on the synergies at the 3rd IGFSC and other global conferences.
- Professor Molly Jahn, Professor, Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- Dr Lindiwe Majele, Vice-President Country Support, Policy and Delivery, AGRA, Kenya
- Dr Dorine Odongo, Senior Communications Manager, African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), Kenya
- Chair: Bongiwe Njobe, Chairperson, Global Forum Agricultural Research (GFAR)
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