Land and Food: Towards fair and sustainable food systems
Organiser(s): Romy Santpoort and Guus van Westen (LANDac/Utrecht University), Janwillem Liebrand (Utrecht University).
Session format: Innovative session
Through a ‘fishbowl’ discussion, this session facilitates a discussion among researchers, practitioners and policymakers on the necessary steps towards more sustainable and equitable food systems in the Global South, with a focus on land-related interventions. We invite four panellists to share their work and lessons learnt on ways towards fair and sustainable food systems in the Global South, highlighting the role of land-based investment flows, business models, the underestimated role of small-scale farmers, and the language used to frame food and land issues. Next, we invite anyone from the audience to take part in the discussion. Ultimately, the aim of the session is to contribute to the deliberations of the UN Food Systems Summit: what may not be overlooked when working towards just and sustainable food systems?
land governance, food security, inclusive business
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Romy Santpoort
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Universiteit Utrecht
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LANDac
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Janwillem Liebrand
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Utrecht University
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Utrecht University
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Esther Obaikol
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IGAD
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Goordinator Land Governance Program
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A Ugandan lawyer with twenty-six (26) years of accumulated work experience with Seventeen (17) of those years in leadership positions at national leading civil society organizations and coalitions, leading the regional program on land and global level leading networks, coalitions, and thematic engagements at the United Nations. I have twenty-two (22) years’ experience in land governance, Seventeen (17) years in piloting innovations in gender and land, and tenure security, fourteen (14) years’ experience in organizational development & management, partnership and network building at national, regional and global levels; and five (5) years’ experience in environmental governance focusing on legal and social research, monitoring and evaluation, and policy advocacy.
Human geographer, working in the Lake Titicaca region of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia
Muna Mohamed
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Land Sea Maldives
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Co-founder
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Land rights, climate change, womens economic empowerment
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advocator for rights of women and communities and negative effects of development induced forced migration, land rights in Maldives.
Nzira de Deus
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Forum Mulher - world march of women Mozambique
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Executive Director
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Women´s rigths and gender equality
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Social activists, feminist, human right defender, women land right defender
Dereje Kebede Ketema
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Mekelle University
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PhD Student (Rural Development and Climate change)
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Land governance
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Johanna Waldenberger
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Utrecht University
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Interests
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Marcello De Maria
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University of Reading / Trade Hub
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Martin Bong
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All Nations Outreach
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CEO
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DIGITILIZATION OF LAND
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Laura German
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University of Georgia
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Professor
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Abul Kalam Azad
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ActionAid Bangladesh
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Project Coordinator
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Energy Transition, Environment and Climate, Land Rights, Governance
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Working as a project coordinator of energy transition projects. A person fueled by a passion to make a just and green society towards beautiful and joyful planet earth for all beings.
Jorge Espinoza
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GIZ
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Advisor Land Governance
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Audace Kubwimana
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International Land Coalition (ILC)
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Africa Regional Coordinator
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Youth access to land, women land rights, Indigenous peoples, small scale farmers, rights defenders protection,
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Audace Kubwimana
Works at ILC as the Africa Regional Coordinator. Previous experience includes working for 8 years to reduce poverty and hunger in Rwanda, at Welthungerhilfe as the Country Representative and Programmes lead and extensive knowledge managing international development programmes. Kubwimana holds a master’s in development studies and a bachelor’s in agriculture
Marco Lankhorst
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IDLO
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Wegayehu Fitawek
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University of Pretoria
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PhD Candidates
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Jephte Muñez
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University of the Philippines
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Senior Lecturer III
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Public Administration, Governance, Land Valuation
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I am a Certified Public Accountant, Real Estate Appraiser and Real Estate Broker in the Philippines. I am into teaching and consultancy work in accounting, finance, taxation, public administration and governance
James Wangu
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Utrecht University
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PhD Candidate
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Isabella Schultz
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Utrecht University
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Henk Merkus
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Netherlands Association for Africa Studies
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Ian Plekker
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Utrecht University
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Msc International Development Studies
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Monica Lengoiboni
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ITC, University of Twente
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Laura Gerken
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
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Huiying Ng
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
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Wytske Chamberlain
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Land Matrix, Africa RFP, hosted by the University of Pretoria
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Dr Wytske Chamberlain works with the Land Matrix, Africa RFP, hosted by the University of Pretoria. Over a period stretching more than ten years, she has developed deep insights into large-scale land acquisitions across the African continent. Besides her activities in the area of large-scale land investments, Wytske has specialised in the field of inclusive business models, in particular in the agricultural sector. She has done extensive research into the complex and compound structures that enable the integration of smallholder farmers and poor rural communities into commercial value chains in South Africa. Her interests furthermore lie in the area of land governance. Dr Chamberlain holds a PhD in Rural Development from the University of Pretoria, an MA degree in Human Geography from the University of the Witwatersrand, and an Honours degree in International Economics and Economic Geography from Utrecht University.
mart stoffels test
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Networktables
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CSM Intern
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Matthijs Test
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Sara Mohamed
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