Programme 2024
Wednesday 30th October
Nano Nagle Place
South Presentation Centre Ltd.
Douglas Street
Cork City
T12 X70A
| 10.30- 12.00 | What is the best that Ireland can be on food and nutrition security Coffee conversation - An informal workshop sponsored by DSAI and Concern Ireland has a depth of knowledge, experience and capacity on food systems, food security and nutrition among academics and activists, NGOs and government. 2025 will see several significant nutrition events – N4G, the Food Systems Summit+4 and Financing for Development. How can Ireland make the most of these for seriously accelerated progress on nutrition? |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Panel: Research, Policy and Practice - Knowledge Partnerships for Development We welcome speakers from Dóchas, Research Ireland, Irish Research Council, Marine Institute, and NGOs to this pre-conference panel discussion that will highlight the research funding opportunities that are available to international development researchers and international NGOs. |
| 15:30-15:50 | Climate Mapping Mural A comprehensive look at the individuals, agencies and businesses working in the area of Climate in Ireland. |
| 15:50-16:20 | Refreshments & Networking |
| 16:20-17:30 | DSAI / Dóchas International Development Research Repository In collaboration with Dóchas, DSAI is seeking to establish repository of research material created by academics and NGO that have an Irish link, which is focused on International Development, humanitarian action, peace, conflict, economics and development in or of the Global South. The objective is to make already conducted research more easily visible and available, allowing development practitioners to use research findings to inform their project development, and to create new linkages between researchers and practitioners for future collaborations. This will be an interactive session during which we will ask the audience to engage with the presenters to shape this new resource. |
| Conference Opening Plenary |
18:00 - 18:45 | Panel Discussion - 'Achieving just food systems in era of global ‘polycrisis’
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18:45 - 19:15 | Audience Responses |
| 19:15 - 20:00 | Reception and Canapés |
| 20:30 | Close |
Thursday 31st October
Nano Nagle Place
South Presentation Centre Ltd.
Douglas Street
Cork City
T12 X70A
| 08:45 – 09:30 | Registration & Refreshements |
09:30 – 09:50 | Confernece Opening |
| 09:50 – 10:20 | Keynote Address Dr. Helena Pérez Niño, Assistant Professor, ISS Erasmus University Rotterdam |
10:20 – 10:40 | Facilitated Discussion |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Refreshments & Networking |
11:00 - 12:30 | Morning Study Group Parallel Sessions
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12:30 - 13:15 | DSAI Annual General Meeting |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
14:10 - 14:40 | Keynote Address Mr. Tom Arnold Tom currently serves as Chair, Ireland Africa Rural Development Committee (IARDC); board member of the Global FoodBanking Network (GFN); member, Global Panel for Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition (GLOPAN); board member, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN); member, Malabo Montpellier Panel; board member, Sight and Life Foundation; board member, John and Pat Hume Foundation; board member, Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation. |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Facilitated Discussion |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Refreshments & Networking |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Afternoon Study Group Parallel Sessions
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17:00 - 17:30 | Closing Plenary |
| 17:30 | Conference Close |
Keynote Speakers
Tom Arnold currently serves as Chair, Ireland Africa Rural Development Committee (IARDC);
board member of the Global FoodBanking Network (GFN); member, Global Panel for Agriculture
and Food Systems for Nutrition (GLOPAN); board member, Global Alliance for Improved
Nutrition (GAIN); member, Malabo Montpellier Panel; board member, Sight and Life Foundation;
board member, John and Pat Hume Foundation; board member, Glencree Centre for Peace
and Reconciliation. His previous roles include serving as Ireland’s Special Envoy for Food Systems (2021-22);
Chair, Food Vision 2030 Strategy Committee (2021); for the EU Commission, he chaired the High-level Expert Group for Food Systems Science (2021) and the Task Force Rural Africa (2019); Coordinator, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement; Director-General, Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA); Chair, Irish Constitutional Convention; CEO, Concern Worldwide; Chief Economist and Assistant Secretary General, Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM); Chair, OECD Committee of of Agriculture; Administrator, EU
Commission.Tom has a degree in agricultural economics from University College Dublin (UCD) and master’s
degrees from the Catholic University of Leuven and Trinity College, Dublin.
Dr. Helena Pérez Niño, Assistant Professor, ISS Erasmus University Rotterdam, conducts research on the political economy of development with special emphasis on the social organisation of production in agriculture and the social impact of globalised agricultural markets. Past research has traced the agrarian reconstruction of the war-ravaged Mozambique-Malawi borderland and state and private-led ideas of post conflict agrarian restructuring (namely, the expansion of contract farming). Her current research examines how agricultural intensification impacts gender power relations and the drivers of underwhelming or frustrated trajectories of productive upgrade. Dr. Nino has worked for UNICEF and UNHCR; has been a visiting fellow at IESE (Maputo) and PLAAS (Cape Town) and her research has been supported by grants from ESRC (UK), the British Academy and the LIDC (UK). Prior to joining the ISS she was a lecturer at SOAS University of London and at the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Agrarian Change and is a co-founder of the Contract Farming Initiative research network (www.contractfarminginitiative.org).