1. Global Food Security

2. The problem… Hunger. The world’s greatest solvable problem  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yo1lnIFfuchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yo1lnIFfuc

3.  1996: World Food Summit (Rome) goal: halving the number of undernourished people by 2015  2000: Millennium Development Goals  Goal Nr. 1 goal: halving the proportion of undernourished people by 2015

5.  4 pillars of food security  access (to sufficient, safe and nutritious food)  availability  Stability (of its supply)  use  Complexity – food security affects and is affected by  health problems  environmental problems  political situation

6. Global architecture of health governance Global architecture of food security governance  International organisations and programmes (WTO, FAO, WFP, …)  UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food (created in 2000)  Civil society organisations and networks(Oxfam, ActionAid, etc.)  Foundations  Private actors (food industry)  International norm: human right to food Actors and mechanisms …

7. Global Food Crisis in 2007/08 – increase in food prices  Financial speculation  Financial crisis  Increase in the price of oil  Climate change / environmental degradation (floods, droughts, …)  Harvest losses  Outdated production mechanisms in agriculture  Subsidised agriculture in rich countries (US, EU) US: cotton EU: sugar

8. What to do ? Solutions …? UN High-Level Panel on the Future of Food Security New ways of governing …. New ways of seeing the world o The Committee on World Food Security How does the Committee try to tackle global food (in)security? (role of the state, civil society, power)

9. Food security and climate change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjtIl5B1zXI What about us? What about our influence? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjtIl5B1zXI