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The economics and politics of taxation and social protection
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World Food Day seminar: Food security, social protection, and living soils
Thu, 29 October 2015
The Finnish National FAO Committee and the University of Helsinki will host a World Food Day seminar at the University of Helsinki. FAO’s World Food Day theme for this year is ‘Social protection and agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty’.
Experts from different fields will discuss the roles that social protection and healthy soil play in developing countries. Professor Juha Helenius, University of Helsinki, will discuss the importance of soil and Adjunct Professor Markus Kröger will discuss how food sovereignty and agrarian reform can be seen as forms of social protection.
UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Miguel Niño-Zarazúa will discuss social protection in his presentation ‘Social transfers against malnutrition: what do we know about their effectiveness?’. The presentation will be based on research work carried within the UNU-WIDER project ’The economics and politics of taxation and social protection’.
The seminar is free of entrance. Registration by 21 October 2015.
Seminar programme
| 11:30 | Coffee |
| 12:15 |
Aulikki Hulmi, Seminar Chair, Chair of the Finnish FAO committee
Opening speech
Social transfers against malnutrition: What do we know about their effectiveness?
Feeding soil, feeding people: Ecologically integrated paradigm for sustainable food systems
Food sovereignity and agrarian reform as social protection |
View presentation slides