Pardee House Seminar on Food and Microfinance

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Microfinance for Food and Development’ at the Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston) on Wednesday, January 21.

The seminar is the first of the new semester and the second in a series of seminars related to food and development supported by The Netherlands’ Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Food Quality (LNV).

The seminar will feature a discussion panel including Dr. Ann Helwege (an Adjunct Professor at the Department of International Relations at Boston University and a Senior Research Fellow at GDAE at Tufts Univeristy), Dr. Pablo Sarez (Research Fellow at the Boston University Pardee Center and with the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Center), and Marjorie Victor (Policy Advisor, Oxfam America).

The seminar will explore how current trends and
new possibilities in credit, insurance and other tools may transform
the future of food insecurity for poor people, in particular in the context of the agenda of the forthcoming meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UN CSD).

The Pardee Seminar Series focuses on a variety of interdisciplinary issues and invites experts from different disciplines to discuss the long-range challenges and trends in that particular issue.

Lunch will be available from 11.30am, and the seminar itself will start at noon. Please RSVP to pardee@bu.edu by Friday, January 16, 2009.