Sufficiency for Nutrition

Moderator:

Dr. Yamina Saheb

Dr. Yamina Saheb is a lecturer and researcher at Sciences Po (Paris), a lead author of the 2022 IPCC report on climate change mitigation and a Senior fellow at OpenExp. Prior to this position, Yamina was a Senior Fellow Researcher at the University of Münster and previously a Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne. In 2018, Yamina was the head of energy efficiency unit at the Energy Charter Secretariat. Before that, she was a Policy and Scientific Officer at the Renewables and Energy Efficiency Unit at the Institute of Energy and Transport of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC). She also worked as senior buildings energy efficiency policy analyst at the IEA. Yamina holds a Ph.D. in Energy Engineering, master’s degrees on Landscape Architecture and Development Economics and an Engineering degree in Building technologies.

Keynote:

Prof. Olivier De Schutter

Prof. Olivier De Schutter is a Belgian legal scholar specialising in economic and social rights. He served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food from 2008 to 2014. He is a Professor of international human rights law, European Union law and legal theory at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, as well as at the College of Europe and at Sciences Po in Paris. He was a regular visiting professor at Columbia University between 2008 and 2012 and has regularly contributed to the American University Washington College of Law's Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He is the first chair of the Belgian Advisory Council on Policy Coherence for Development and he co-chairs the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), a group of experts from various disciplines and regions who work together towards developing proposals for food systems reform. Olivier is a Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights between 2015 and 2020, he was appointed the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights,[2] and took up his functions on May 1, 2020.

Ms. Tessa Avermaete

Ms. Tessa Avermaete is project manager at the Sustainable Food Economies Research Group (SFERE) of Leuven University. She manages interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary consortia that are working in the domain of food security, sustainable food systems, agriculture, and sustainable diets. She focuses on the European context, where the food system is characterized by a growing gap between consumers and producers, inequality, the prevalence of obesity, a polarized debate on sustainable food systems and a continuous decrease in the number of farmers. Tessa Avermaete was involved in the High-Level Steering Board of the European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural productivity and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI) and in the focus group on new entrants in farming. She is a member of diverse working groups at the national, regional, and local level, contributing to an evidence-based transition of the food system and empowerment of all the actors in the system. She was nominated for the science battle for her work in reaching out current insights on food and farming to children.

Prof. Lise Korsten

Prof. Lise Korsten is Co-director of the Department of Science and Innovation-National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Food Security (FS), Professor Lise Korsten coordinates and integrates food security studies at the University of Pretoria (UP). She also aligns the centre’s activities with the African Research University Alliance Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems under the directorship of Prof Frans Swanepoel. Prof Korsten has been involved in fresh produce research at UP for more than 30 years. She completed her undergraduate studies and BSc Hons degrees at Stellenbosch University before doing her MSc and PhD Agric degrees at UP. She was appointed as a lecturer and later full professor in the then Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology. She has done extensive research on food safety in food systems comparing the formal and informal supply chains.

Lila Djellali

Lila Djellali is the Deputy Major of Paris 20th in charge of sustainable food and social economy. She works on establishing social food security in Paris. Previously, Lila has been actively involved in legislative proposals aiming at eradicating poor housing in Paris. In 2012, Lilla became an advisor to Interface Africa, a consulting company where she worked closely with Seyni Nafo (now President of COP Africa). First, as a communication advisor to Maky Sall during the 2012 presidential elections, then as advisor to Aichata Aidara Cissé for the 2013 presidential elections in Mali. Lila will accompany Mrs. Aidara Cissé in her vice presidency of the African Union on the issues related to women, youth, and ecology. Lila is also involved in youth employment and did set-up a support program for women in politics in Liberia during the Presidency of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She has also created a cooperative of women farmers and fishermen in the Ivory Coast. Lilla graduated from a business and communication school.