Outreach – DEMETER

Conference: Christophe Gironde at the workshop ” Transformations and visions: Responses, alternatives and resistances to large-scale land deals in the Global South”

This international workshop (23-25 May – Halle/Saale, Germany) has been organized by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and McGill University. During this programme, Christophe Gironde presented a paper entitled “Loosing land, loosing ground? Dispossession and resilience in Northeaster Cambodia”. Since the 1990s, northeaster Cambodia has been undergoing a rapid and radical agrarian transition, driven…

May 28, 2018Outreach, UncategorizedBy Lucia Direnberger

Demeter at UN Commission on the Status of Women NGO Forum

Demeter team organizes a side event entitled “Agricultural Commercialisation, the Right to Food and Gender Equality: Exploring Linkages” at the UN Commission on the Status of Women NGO Forum. This year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women has as its priority theme “Challenges and Opportunities in Achieving Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Rural…

March 1, 2018OutreachBy Lucia Direnberger

Notes from the field: Organizing a summer-school in Ratanakiri, Cambodia

By Saba Joshi. During my fieldwork in Cambodia, I took part in a project called Davis Projects for Peace. The Davis Project for Peace is an initiative of the Katherine Davis Foundation, which allows students from the Graduate Institute, Geneva to design and implement a grassroots project anywhere in the world. This year, my project…

September 29, 2017Outreach, UncategorizedBy Lucia Direnberger

Expertise: Christophe Golay at the UN

Christophe Golay will participate to the Expert Seminar dedicated to “The Right to Food Soveignty and Other Collective Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas” on the 6th of October 2017. The Expert Seminar will debate the possible inclusion of right to food sovereignty and other collective rights, such at the right…

September 27, 2017Outreach, UncategorizedBy Lucia Direnberger

Conference: Joanna Bourke-Martignoni at the International Conference on the Evolution and Prospects of the Rights of Peasants

The Institute of Human Rights of the University of Deusto (Bilbao, The Basque Country, Spain) and Mundu Bat (One World, a Basque development NGO connected to Via Campesina) organized an international conference in Bilbao on 12-13 June 2017 to discuss new developments in connection with the rights of peasants. Joanna Bourke-Martignoni participated as a speaker in the session that…

September 26, 2017Outreach, UncategorizedBy Lucia Direnberger

Interview: Christophe Golay on food security in Switzerland

On September 24, 2017, Swiss citizens voted for the inclusion of food security in the Federal Constitution. The initiative was accepted by 78,7 per cent of voters.

Christophe Golay answers questions in the Swiss newspaper Le temps about the Swiss policy on food security.

To read the article, click here.

September 25, 2017OutreachBy Lucia Direnberger

Training: From research to the first impacts of Demeter project in Ghana

This was a two day event, from the 5th to 6th of June 2017. The primary aim was to share the preliminary findings of the research with participants principally drawn from Ghana Judicial Service, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Private and State Media, and Civil Society. The reason for this combined exercise…

September 21, 2017OutreachBy Lucia Direnberger

Publication: “In the forest we had plenty”. Gender, food culture and diet change in rural Cambodia

Here we are : the first peer reviewed publication in the Demeter project ! Fenneke Reysoo and Siny Suon, in their study of food culture and diet change in rural Cambodia, describe how land restructuring, often undertaken in the name of progress, has important implications for food cultures, and, in turn, for who gets to…

February 9, 2017OutreachBy Lucia Direnberger

Meeting with local institutions: The Demeter team in Kwaebibirem District

On Wednesday the 2nd of November 2016, the Demeter team gathered for a workshop in Accra, fulfilled a promise they made to the community during the time of the data collection: the team came back to share the findings of the field work with a community in Kwaebibirem District. To start the discussions with the…

January 23, 2017Outreach, UncategorizedBy Lucia Direnberger

Conference: Frontiers of Neoliberal Globalization: Gender in Agriculture and Food Security

Elisabeth Prügl reported first results from her analysis of international discourse on gender in agriculture and food security at the Annual Meetings of the Swiss Political Science Association in St. Gallen on January 12, 2017. Her paper entitled Frontiers of Neoliberal Globalization: Gender in Agriculture and Food Security examines 32 reports, working papers, and briefs…

January 23, 2017Outreach, UncategorizedBy Lucia Direnberger