World Food Day Colloquium 2018

Cooperatives: essential for food security?!

October 16th, 2018 | University of Hohenheim


Poster World Food Day Colloquium 2018

This year’s World Food Day Colloquium, organized by the Food Security Center (FSC) in cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association/ Baden-Württembergischer Genossenschaftsverband (BWGV), focused on cooperatives and their contribution to global food security.

Over 250 participants joint the event to learn more about positive achievements and challenges cooperatives do have to face regarding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The World Food Day Colloquium offered a unique platform for international FSC-partners, invited stakeholders and scientists from Hohenheim to discuss institutional and political framework conditions as important prerequisites for the cooperatives’ success to improve the situation of global nutrition.

Invited experts from policy and business presented their perspective about cooperatives and their role in international development, shared best practice examples, outlined challenges and advanced approaches in cooperatives support and successful performance.

Particular resonance among Colloquium participants had the Memorial Lecture on ‘Rapid transformation of agrifood supply chains in Africa and Asia with implications of farming systems’ by Prof. Dr. Thomas Reardon, Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Recourse Economics, Michigan State University and AAEA Fellow.

The special occasion for this year’s WFDC was the 200th anniversary of the University of Hohenheim and the Raiffeisen Year 2018, in which the cooperative idea was celebrated on the occasion of the 200th birthday of its founder, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen.

An extra conference location for video-transmission was offered in Aula for those, who was less lucky to get a place at the center of action at the Balcony Hall of the Hohenheim Palace. Interested persons outside the University could follow the World Food Day Colloquium even from remote areas via the live stream on the FSC page on Facebook.

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08:00 - 09:00 Arrival & Registration Foyer
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Session Balcony Hall

Welcome Address
Prof. Dr. Stephan Dabbert
President, University of Hohenheim

 

Prof. Dr. Reiner Doluschitz
Director, Food Security Center (FSC), University of Hohenheim

Dr. Roman Glaser
President of Baden-Württembergischer Genossenschafts-verband (BWGV), Germany

09:30 - 09:45 Key Session Balcony Hall

Global Hunger Index 2018 - Forced Migration and Hunger
Mathias Mogge
Secretary General, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, Germany

 

09:45 - 11:00 Key Session Balcony Hall

Cooperatives: Essential for Food Security
MinDir. Gunther Beger
Director-General, Policy issues; private sector; trade; rural development, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany

 

Raiffeisen. Impact on Cooperatives in International Development
Dr. Eckhard Ott
President of the German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation (DGRV), Germany

 

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break Foyer
11:30 - 12:15 Hans Ruthenberg Memorial Lecture Balcony Hall

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Regina Birner
Vice-Director Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute, University of Hohenheim

Rapid transformation of agrifood supply chains in Africa and Asia with implications for farming systems
Prof. Dr. Thomas Reardon
Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University and AAEA Fellow

 

12:15 - 13:15 Lunch Break Foyer
13:15 - 13:45 Young Scientists Session Balcony Hall

Approaches of young scientists from FSC, University of Hohenheim and the Center for Develoment Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
Theresa Bäuml, Rahel Deribe Bekele, Sebastian Forneck, Md. Fuad Hassan, Tessa Jensen-Auvermann, Olta Sokoli

 

13:45 - 15:15 View from Practice Session Balcony Hall

Cooperative Sector in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities of Food Production and Food Security
Prof. Dr. Gilson Martins
Coordinator of the Center for Applied Economics, Cooperation and Innovation in Agribusiness (CEA), Department of Rural Economics and Extension, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

 

Mother Teresa Rural Development Society (MTRDS) - a cooperative movement in India based on the Raiffeisen-idea
Dr. Ewald Glaser
CEO, ZG Raiffeisen eG, Germany

 

Catalyzing Agricultural Transformation through integrating Food Security, Income and Nutrition aspects
Anthony Chamanga
Chief Development Manager, Tanzania Horticultural Association (TAHA), Tanzania

 

Cooperatives are indispensable for cocoa farmers
Eberhard Schell
CEO, Schell Schokoladen, Germany

 

Women and collective action: lessons from the Indian dairy cooperative sector
Carla Dohmwirth
Department of Agricultural Economics, Division of Economics of Agricultural Cooperatives, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

 

15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break Foyer
15:30 - 16:15 Panel Balcony Hall

Discussion with experts: Do cooperatives contribute to food security?
Fukamusabe Dieudonné
Head Manager Deputy, COCOCA Consortium of Coffee Cooperatives, Burundi

Anthony Chamanga
Chief Development Manager, Tanzania Horticultural Association (TAHA), Tanzania

Eberhard Schell
CEO Schell Schokoladen, Germany

Dr. Ewald Glaser
CEO, ZG Raiffeisen eG, Germany

Prof. Dr. Reiner Doluschitz
Head of Research Center of Cooperatives, University of Hohenheim

16:15 - 16:30 Closing Balcony Hall

Dr. Andrea Fadani
CEO, Foundation fiat panis, Germany


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