Poor health, food insecurity and poverty -
How to break a vicious circle ?
 
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Programme

08:00-09:00

Registration

09:00-09:10

Opening statement
(Jacques Chavaz, Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture)

   
 

Relations between poor health and food insecurity in developing countries

09:10-09:50

Health perspective: How does agriculture influence human health?
(Denise Costa Coitinho, World Health Organization)

09:50-10:30

Agricultural perspective: How do human diseases affect food security?
(Marcela Villarreal, FAO)

   
10:30-11:00 Break
 

 

 

Policies and strategies to break the vicious circle

11:00-11-40

HIV/AIDS and Food and Nutrition Security: Outcomes of the Durban Conference
(Stuart Gillespie, International Food Policy Research Institute)

11:40-12:20

When humanitarian aid, when development cooperation?
(Lynn Brown, World Food Programme)

   
12:20-13:40 Lunch
   
13:40-14:20

Mainstreaming : how to reshape international cooperation in the context of HIV/AIDS?
(Kate Molesworth, Swiss Tropical Institute)

14:20-15:00 Adaptation of national agricultural / health / education policies
(Samuel Bota, Natural Resources College, Malawi)
   
15:00-15:30 Break
   
  Responses at the project level (parallel sessions)
   
15:30-16:00 Improving health with Provitamin A enriched rice
(Jorge E. Mayer, University of Freiburg, Germany)
  Malaria and vegetable production in Côte d’Ivoire
(Andres Tschannen, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, Côte d'Ivoire)
  The role of livestock in mitigating the effects of HIV/AIDS
(Michael R. Goe, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
16:15-16:45 Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools
(Carol Djeddah, FAO)
  Mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS by labour saving technologies
(Kurt Steiner, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GTZ)
  Cash transfers for poor households
(Bernd Schubert, Humboldt University, Germany)
   
17:00-18:15 Panel Discussion
   
18:15-18:30 Conclusions
(Liliane Ortega, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation)
 
18:30-20:30 Symposium Reception
   
  • Poster Presentation: ca. 10 posters with further project examples.
  • Presentation of the video "HIVAIDS and livelihoods : experiences in mainstreaming from Malawi" (Oxfam, Oxford, 2004).

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