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Organic agriculture & Food security/ Sovereignty
Thursday June 19th 2008
Coordinator: Louise W.M. Luttikholt
Location: Teatro S. Carlo
Language: English

Program
14.30 pm
Opening of session by moderator, Mette Meldgaard, IFOAM World Board member
14.35 - 14.55 pm
Nadia Scialabba, FAO
Organic Agriculture and Food Security, findings from the international conference held at FAO, May 3-5 2007
14.55 - 15.15 pm Catherine Badgley , University of Michigan,
Organic agriculture and the global food supply [pdf 10 KB]
15.15 - 15.30 pm Hewlett, Soil Association
Can organic agriculture feed the world?  A review of the research [pdf 14 KB]
15.30 - 15.45 pm
Miguel Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
Agroecology and food sovereignty in Latin America
15.45 pm
Questions and short discussion
16.00 - 16.30 pm Break 
16.30 - 16.45 pm Andra Ferrante, AIAB
Organic farming and Food sovereignty [pdf 11KB]
16.45 - 16.55 pm India:
Veena, University of Agriculture Sciences, Bangalore
Approaches For Organic Food Security Of Rural Poor [pdf 10 KB]
16.55 - 16.05 pm Kads, Organic Agriculture and Food Security [pdf 14 KB]
17.05 - 17.15 pm Virgin islands:
Pierce, Organic Valley
Minority Mentoring: A Cooperative Model for Restoring Food Security [pdf 26 KB] 
17.15 - 17.25 pm Palestine Region:
Nasser Samarah,
Enhancing Food Security through the improvement of high quality agriculture [pdf 16KB]
17.25 - 17.35 pm Ethiopia:
Sue Edwards,
Tigray Storie
17.35 - 17.55 pm Sununtar Setboonsarng, Asian Development Bank Instititute
Organic Agriculture, Poverty Reduction and the Millennium Development Goals

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