Event

Scarcity in abundance

Event Details

A critical analysis of food crises

Hybrid event via Zoom – REGISTER HERE – THE EVENT WILL BE LIVESTREAMED

European Parliament, Room A5E1, Brussels
Registered participants will receive a Zoom link prior to the date of the event

Language: English, French and German
When: 22 June  2022, 3.30 – 5.30 PM CEST

Event hosted by MEPs Benoit Biteau and Helmut Scholz

The world is now facing its third global food crisis in 15 years. How is it possible in a world of abundance? What can the current crisis teach us for the future? What can be done to avoid this structural situation?

PROGRAMME

Introduction by MEP Helmut Scholz

Setting the scene: War in Ukraine & food crisis, a perfect storm?
Analysis of the current situation through the presentation of the IPES-Food report

  • Speaker: Nick Jacobs (director of IPES-Food)

Panel 1: What should be done in the short term to avoid the disaster? What are the current political answers?

  1. Overview of possible short term solutions, presentation of the French NGO coalition report
    Speaker: Maureen Jorand (food sovereignty expert from CCFD-Terre Solidaire)
  1. Expert/political panel discussion
    Assalama Dawalack Sidi (director of Oxfam West Africa) (tbc) / Ophelia Nick (Secretary of State – BMEL) / Guy Pe’er (researcher at idiv & UFZ)

Panel 2: How to overcome these repeated crisis and the structural problems of the current global food system?

  • Farmer organisation panel:
    Ibrahima Coulibaly (chair of ROPPA) / Morgane Ody (spokesperson of ECVC)

Conclusion by MEP Benoit Biteau

Contact person Felix Tuchais: felix.tuchais@europarl.europa.eu

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