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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
By Saba Joshi. On 12 December 2016, I had the unique opportunity to participate in a workshop organized in Sihanoukville, in Southern Cambodia by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) called “10th December Academy” to commemorate international human rights day. RWI’s Phnom Penh office organizes the “10 December Academy” annually in different parts of Cambodia, to…
