Last month I taught a course on global food security governance. As part of the course students were able to travel to Rome to observe the Committee on World Food Security and then Milan to check out the Milan Expo. In this blog post one of the students shares her experiences with us.
As part of a voluntary course offered by Rural Sociology, 16 students visited Italy to look at two different examples of global food security in action. Emmelien Venselaar, who studies International Development, has written a short blog wherein she reflects on her experiences. Happy reading.
Students get ready to observe politics in action at the UN’s Committee on World Food Security (photo by X. Jiang)
As part of the Capita Selecta “Global Food Security Governance” from chair group RSO, 16 students got the chance to visit the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome. This Committee is an intergovernmental body addressing global food security governance. It aims to be inclusive and thus takes the interests of states, civil society, NGO’s and the private sector into account. In practice this means that a discussion can be conducted by Coca Cola, Finland, peasants and a representative of the FAO. This conference is…
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