Events
International Poverty Solutions Collaborative – Wednesday, October 19 – Friday, October 21
International Poverty Solutions Collaborative
The Kirwan Institute’s Global Justice Program will present The Poverty-Growth Nexus in Agriculture: The Food Crisis in African Countries at Building Solutions to Poverty – Methods and Metrics for Identifying Success Conference on the OSU campus, Wednesday, October 19 – Friday, October 21. This paper identifies structural barriers to the poverty-growth mechanisms within the African agricultural sector and food system. These constraints point towards paths for inclusive growth strategies, highlighting the work of social movements working for greater social participation and articulating solutions to challenges that are at once land-based, environmental, agricultural, economic and political.
November 4, 2011 – Kirwan Institute Global Justice Program Hosts Presentation on Food Security
Kirwan Institute Senior Research Associate Elsadig Elsheikh and Graduate Research Associate Wendy Ake will
be reviewing the project for the Food Innovations Seminar Series entitled “Can Africa Survive Land Deals?” will
be the subject of a presentation of the Food Innovations Seminar Series by on Friday, November 4th, 2011 at
11:30 a.m., in 252 Campbell Hall. The presentation will review the Kirwan Institute’s Large Scale Land
Acquisitions Mapping Project which will examine the impact of foreign investors’ acquisition of millions of
hectares of arable land in Africa since 2001. Among other factors, the project will study the benefits and impacts
of foreign land investments on specific communities and countries in terms of food security, as well as social and
ecological-biophysical impacts. Learn more about the Kirwan Institute Global Justice Program.