Multi-part Panel Discussion: Decentralised Governments and the New Multilateralism, New York, 19 October 2009

Pecha Kucha Night Session Regio Brugge, 9 November 2009

Training Course for UNECA Staff on Measurement and Modeling in International Trade and Regional Integration, Addis Ababa, 19-23 October 2009

Book Workshop 'Intersecting Inter-Regionalism', 2-3 October 2009, Bruges

UNU-WIDER and UNU-CRIS International Workshop on South-South and North-South Trade Agreements: Compatibility Issues, Bruges (Belgium), 5-6 November 2009, Deadline for paper submissions: 1 September 2009 JEL classification(s): F, O, Q

Call for Papers: 4th Annual Meeting of the GARNET network - Food Security and Sustainable Development: Challenges for the Governance of International Relations

The GARNET Network of Excellence  and the Research Centre for International Economics (CIDEI) of Sapienza University of Rome, in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and the World Food Programme (WFP), are convening an international conference on ‘Food Security and Sustainable Development: Challenges for the Governance of International Relations’. 

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Recent changes in the international economy, characterised by the increasing share of emerging countries in world production, investment and trade, are generating strong instability in many markets, and particularly in the prices of raw materials and food products. This trend, intensified by the global financial and economic crisis, is putting at risk the modest progress achieved so far in the fight against poverty.  Moreover, environmental problems are being exacerbated by the increasing competition for the use of natural resources.

This set of interrelated problems represents a fundamental challenge to the current status of international relations. Multilateral and regional institutions are increasingly under stress. This is visible not only in the stalemate of WTO negotiations, but also in the quarrels about international environmental agreements, and more generally in the lack of consensus about how to reform international institutions.   When the impossibility to fully achieve the Millennium Development Goals is acknowledged, tensions between developing and developed countries could be further intensified. The European Union has an important role to play in order to prevent this risk, both internally and externally. 

The conference will address a wide range of research and policy issues regarding the international governance of the relationship between food security and sustainable development. 

15 July 2009: abstract submissions (400

31 August 2009: notification of authors.

15 September 2009: hotel and conference registration

15 October 2009: paper submissions

Conference support funds may be available for a limited number of paper presenters. Please

indicate in your submission whether you wish to be considered for such support.

Some conference papers may be invited for publication in the CSGR/Routledge 'Globalisation'

series or the GARNET/Routledge 'Europe in The World' series.

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