Welcome by Lawrence Haddad, Director of Institute of Development Studies  and keynote address by Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Followed by a plenary discussion: defining the big questions for the conference.

Introduction to Conference by Ruth Hall, PLAAS

Welcome – Lawrence Haddad, Director, Institute of Development Studies and member of the High Level Panel of Experts of the UN FAO Committee on Food Security and Saturnino (Jun) Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and Editor, Journal of Peasant Studies

Keynote address – Olivier de Schutter – UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He is Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and at the College of Europe (Natolin), and also a member of the Global Law School Faculty at New York University and Visiting Professor at Columbia University.

Plenary discussion: defining the big questions for the conference.

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