Food Day Colloquium 2018 - Cooperatives: essential for food security?! [06.11.18]
The special occasion for this year’s World Food Day Colloquium (WFDC) is the 200th anniversary of the University of Hohenheim, founded in 1818 for generating knowledge on increasing food productivity after a great famine in Baden-Wuerttemberg, and the Raiffeisen Year 2018, in which the cooperative idea is celebrated on the occasion of the 200th birthday of its founder, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen.
The thematic focus is on cooperatives and their contribution to global food security. What has already been accomplished? And what kind of challenges do cooperatives have to face regarding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? To enable and strengthen the struggle of people to improve their food security was one of the cooperatives’ initial points of action. It is still the stimulus of new cooperatives and self-help groups in various countries and regions.
The World Food Day Colloquium 2018 will discuss the specific roles of cooperatives in this process and their different contributions to global food security. As a special highlight the Hans Ruthenberg Memorial Lecture will be part of the program.
