I International Symposium of Food Security and Poverty Reduction

United Nations

 
 
 

Program Schedule


2011-11-16
Session One: Opening

To identify the set of developing technologies, methodologies and institutional arrangements aiming at the increase of food availability and access for the poor.
08:00 - 09:00

Credenciamento
09:00 – 10:00
  • Nilda de Fátima Ferreira Soares
    President of the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil
  • Israel Leoname F. Klug
    Representative of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Brazil
  • Pedro Veloso
    Representantive of Minister of Brazilian Cooperation Agency Brazil, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Brazil
  • Mariana Helcias Côrtes
    General Coordination of Food and Nutrition Education - Minister of Social Development and fight Against Hunger
  • Luiz Cláudio Costa
    Secretary of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Brazil
  • Pedro Antônio Arraes Perreira
    President Director EMBRAPA
  • Antônio Lima Bandeira
    President EPAMIG
  • Dipika Matthias
    Project Director at PATH
  • Jadir Nogueira da Silva
    Coordinator of First International Symposium on food security and poverty reduction 
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee-break
10:30 – 12:00

Keynote speech: “An Overview of Global Food Insecurity and Poverty: Dimensions and Interfaces.”

Dipika Matthias is a Project Director at PATH
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
Session Two: The Geography of Hunger and Nutrition Security (NS)

To discuss the strategic value of information in the new global order and the geopolitics of wealth generation and food production, considering their implications on the geographical distribution of poverty and hunger in Brazil and elsewhere.
President/Coordinator: Steffen Kuntz – University of Freiburg, Infoterra gmbh, Germany
14:00 – 14:50

Remote Sensing and Food and Nutrition Security
Prof. Steffen Kuntz, University of Freiburg, Infoterra gmbh, Germany
14:50 – 15:40

Climate Change, Food and Nutrition Security
Luiz Cláudio Costa, Secretary oh Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Brazil
15:40 – 16:30

Social Mapping,d Food and Nutrition Security
David Nally, University of Cambridge, U.K.
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:50

Water Resources,Food and Nutrition Security
Francisco Olivera, Texas A & M University, USA and Cecilia Hundskopf Giusti, Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning (LAUP), Texas.
17:50 – 18:30 Closing
2011-11-17
Session Three: Poverty, Social Vulnerability,Food and Nutrition Security

Goal: To identify the interfaces among food and nutrition security with poverty as axes of development, highlighting absolute poverty as a consequence of social inequality and relative poverty by the standard of minimum nutrient consumption.
President/Coordinator: Casimiro Balsa, University of Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
08:00 – 08:50

Cooperation and Food: Security or Insecurity?
Pedro Veloso - Representante of Director, Brazilian Cooperation Agency
08:50 - 09:40

Family agriculture, poverty reduction and food security assurance

Adriano Campolina - Action Aid
09:40 – 10:30

Food and Nutrition Security and Poverty: Faces and Interfaces
Casimiro Balsa, New University of Lisboa, Portugal
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee-Break
11:00 – 11:50

Methodologies for the Study of Food (in) Security
Leonor Pacheco, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences at UnB
11:50 – 12:30 Closing
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Session Four: Mobilization and Policies for Food and Nutrition Security and Poverty Reduction

Goal: To consider food and nutrition security and poverty reduction as an issue rooted in the way policies and programs are institutionalized in the country and in Brazil's relations with other countries, assimilating or not the demands from social movements. This approach can delineate alternative hypotheses on the subject, especially considering the contrast between alternative paths of development, food production and poverty reduction in the world.
President/Coordinator: Israel Leoname F. Klug - General Coordination Action Against Hunger Internacional (CGFOME) MRE
14:00 – 14:50

Fundamentals and Policy guidelines of Programs for Food and Nutrition Security and Poverty Reduction
Mariana Helcias Côrtes - General Coordination of Food and Nutrition Education - Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger, Brazil
14:50 – 15:40

"The Brazilian humanitarian cooperation based on national food security policy"
Israel Leoname F. Klug - General Coordination Action Against Hunger International (CGFOME) MRE
15:40 – 16:30

Traditional knowledge, common areas and food production

Prof. Henri Acselrad - IPPUR/UFRJ
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:50

International Cooperation without Development? Scope and Limitations of International Cooperation Actions on the Food Security and Poverty Reduction
João Milando, University Katyavala Bwila and Institute of Social Sciences / University of Lisbon, Portugal
17:50 – 18:30 Closing
2011-11-18
Session Five: Production, Distribution, Storage and Technology

Goal: To present current approaches on the dilemma of agriculture for food security versus agriculture for “safe development”
President/Coordinator: Volkhard Scholz , Leibniz Institut fόr Agrartechnick, ATB- Potsdam/Berlin- Germany
08:00 – 08:40

Production of staple foods in the fight against hunger and poverty
Manuel Fernando Belo Moreira, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
08:40 – 09:20

Production of Biofuels in Farmlands – A Food Dilemma or an Environmental Opportunity?
Volkhard Scholz, Leibniz Institut für Agrartechnick, ATB- Potsdam/Berlin- Germany
09:20 – 10:00

Technologies to Reduce Harvest Losses of Agricultural Crops
Betty Bugusu, Purdue University, USA
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:10

Animal husbandry: Our Science against Hunger
James Pettigrew, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (IUC), USA
11:10 - 11:50

Nutritional Security and Sanitary Inspection of Grains and Meats for Human Consumption

Alysson Paolinelli
11:50 - 14:00

Lunch
Session Six: Food and Nutrition Security in the Prevention and Control of Malnutrition and Non-communicable Chronic Diseases.

Goal: To discuss the effects of inadequate intake of calories, macro and micronutrients that promote increased prevalence of infant mortality, obesity, diabetes and cancer. Strategies for prevention and control of diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies and excesses are necessary to guarantee the adequate supply of quality nutritional food and the adoption of healthy dietary practices.
President/Coordinator: Marνlia Regini Nutti - EMBRAPA RJ
14:00 – 14:40

Nutrigenomics, Epigenetics and Nutrigenetics in the Context of Food and Nutrition security.
Thomas Prates Ong, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
14:40 – 15:20

Reduction of Micronutrient Malnutrition
Nana Miller, Purdue University EUA
15:20 – 16:00

Inadequacy of Macronutrients on Non-communicable Chronic Diseases
Miguel Angel Martínez, University of Navarra, Spain
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:10

Potential of Foods in Health Prevention.
Elvira de Mejía, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (IUC), USA
17:10 – 17:50

The role of Biofortification in Brazil as tool to improve nutrition an health

Marília Regini Nutti - EMBRAPA RJ