BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260424T144753EDT-6897vthLzN@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260424T184753Z DESCRIPTION:On February 14\, you are invited to join us for the Margaret A. Gilliam Lecture in Food Security\, featuring guest speaker Bruce H. Moore \, civil society activist\, international development advisor and former U nited Nations Director.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nAt present\, Bruce Moore s erves on the Board of Transparency International Canada and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Huairou Commission\, an international alliance of grassroots women’s organizations\; Canadians for Tax Fairness\; and th e Institute for Global Food Security at . He is the immed iate past Chair of the North South Institute\, an international developmen t research institute\; and\, the Forum on Democratic Global Governance. Ad ditionally\, he is a member of the C20\, the civil society consultative bo dy to the G20. From 1998-2008\, he was the founding Director of the Intern ational Land Coalition (headquartered in Rome)\, an alliance of United Nat ions\, civil society\, and multilateral organizations working to enable ru ral poor families to gain their land and resource rights. His civil societ y career\, from 1973 to 1998\, included 10 years as the Director of Partne rs in Rural Development. He has chaired the NGO Advisory Committee to the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development\; served on the international executive of the Society for International Development 1998-2008\; been an advisor to the European Commission\, FAO\, African Uni on\, Asian Development Bank\, and World Bank. He has chaired a number of h igh-level policy dialogues during the UN Commission on Sustainable Develop ment\; and served on the committee that designed the action plan for the C ommission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor.\n\nAbstract\n\nWhereas the property rights of poor people were previously seen as a call for social justice\, today land rights are understood to also be at the nexus of the economic\, environmental\, political and social order. If these issue and challenges are approached separately\, the responses to one often offsets one or more of the others\, due to competing and powerful vested interests and the common exclusion of those most highly affected - the land poor. W hen land issues and rights take multi-functionality as their starting poin t\, the potential for a more inclusive\, equitable and sustainable outcome rises significantly.\n\nThe agenda for change and the ways to get there a re well known.The multi-functional potential of land to simultaneously wor k on multiple levels of economic\, environmental and social importance are within reach. Whereas the “nay-sayers” say there is a need to know more\, citizens are saying more than enough is known to do more. While leaders w ho are not listening are doing so at their peril\, they put the rest of th eir people at peril. Citizen voices must be heard. It is in our common int erest.\n DTSTART:20170214T150000Z DTEND:20170214T150000Z LOCATION:R2-046\, Raymond Building\, CA\, QC\, St Anne de Bellevue\, H9X 3V 9\, 21111 Lakeshore Road SUMMARY:From the Ground Up: the multi-functionality of land URL:/globalfoodsecurity/channels/event/ground-multi-fu nctionality-land-265073 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR