DEMETER – Page 4 – Gender, Land, and the Right to Food

Conference: The Demeter team at the International Conference on Research for Development (ICRD)

Convening in Bern, Switzerland, 5–8 September 2017, the 4th International Conference on Research for Development (ICRD) gathered researchers, policymakers, and societal partners in order to discuss ways to support transformations towards sustainable development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The Demeter team was particularly invested in this event organizing one Panel session and participating in…

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Research notes: The Cassava production craze in Ghana.The story of commercialization and the exclusion of women

By Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey. Cassava is one of the commonest food staple crops in Ghana. Its growing importance is seen in the way it is increasingly being used as a substitute for a variety of cooked food meals in Ghana. It is widely observed that in forest zones, cassava has become a key substitute for…

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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…

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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…

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Expertise: Joanna Bourke-Martignoni participates in a Round table on Localising Human Rights at the University of Antwerp

The Law and Development Research Group at the University of Antwerp organized a series of round tables on 19 and 20 September to discuss issues related to the local relevance of international human rights norms. Experiences from a number of different geographical regions were analysed and participants from government, civil society and academia were able…

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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…

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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.

OutreachBy 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…

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Research brief: Gender equality and the right to food in contexts of agricultural commercialization

The first research brief of the Demeter project published by Joanna Bourke-Martignoni is now available ! The brief summarizes key issues connected to agricultural commercialization from a human rights perspectives with a focus on the right to food and gender equality. Speaking to two goals of the Sustainable Development Agenda, it aims to provide policy…

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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…

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