Alumni meeting
Seminar SKOV and Ipso-Facto - Pathways to Africa Food Security: Challenges, Threats & Opportunities towards 2050
SKOV organises seminars in cooperation with Ipso-Facto on global development cooperation issues. Speakers at the meetings are often esteemed and expert Wageningen alumni. This time Alumnus dr. Michiel de Haas and Prof. dr. Ken E. Giller are cooperating.
Invitation
On Thursday 27 November, at 16.00 pm, SKOV, in cooperation with study association Ipso-Facto, will organise a seminar about 'Pathways to Africa Food
Security - Challenges, Threats & Opportunities towards 2050'.
Under this title, a book was published earlier this year. This book examines Africa’s current food system and future challenges for food security over the next 25 years. In 2050, the African continent will be home to a quarter of the world’s population.
The analysis presented in this book clearly shows that the African food system needs to transform at a much faster pace to ensure that the people it serves are food secure. This book contains case studies that focus on country-specific challenges in Egypt, Ethiopia, Senegal and Zimbabwe. It has three sections on challenges, threats, and opportunities. Individual chapters address a wide range of topics including climate change, water security, farm sizes, crop yields, conservation trade-offs, food prices, trade, conflict and structural change. The book concludes by discussing key pathways to improve Africa's food system and food security for the decades ahead.
The editors, Michiel de Haas and Ken Giller, are willing to present the main findings during this seminar. This will be followed by a reflection and discussion.
Participation is free of charge.
Speakers
Alumnus dr. Michiel de Haas
Michiel de Haas (2017) is Assistant Professor of Economic and Environmental History at Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands.
Prof. dr. Ken E. Giller
Ken Giller is Emeritus Professor of Plant Production Systems at Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands.
Programme
16.00 - 16.20: welcome with coffee, tea
16.20 – 16.25: opening by Cor de Jong, chair of SKOV
16.25 – 16.50: keynote by Michiel de Haas
16.50 – 17.15: keynote by Ken Giller
17.15 – 18.00: questions and debate, facilitated by Ellen Mangnus
18.00 – 18.30: drinks and informal exchange