The Africa Reporting Project » Sudan http://africareportingproject.org An Initiative of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Sun, 16 May 2010 03:19:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Patrick Vinck on food security after conflict http://africareportingproject.org/2010/02/12/one-question-patrick-vinck-on-food-security-after-conflict/ http://africareportingproject.org/2010/02/12/one-question-patrick-vinck-on-food-security-after-conflict/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:41:22 +0000 mkricard http://africareportingproject.org/?p=744 Editor’s Note: We launch our One Question series today with a Q&A with Patrick Vinck, our speaker for the week. Each time we have a speaker, we will ask him one question related to the topic he spoke about. If you want to ask a question, feel free to add a comment or drop us a note.

Patrick Vinck, an agricultural engineer who specializes in rural development, holds a Ph.D. in international development. He has worked and conducted research in Iraq, Rwanda, Northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and other areas affected by armed conflict. He directs the The Initiative for Vulnerable Populations at the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley.

He visited the Africa Reporting Project on Thursday, where he talked about food security after conflict and defined the elements of food security. For our One Question series, we asked Vinck to break down his thoughts on food security in Africa.

]]> http://africareportingproject.org/2010/02/12/one-question-patrick-vinck-on-food-security-after-conflict/feed/ 0 World Food Summit: Day 2 http://africareportingproject.org/2009/11/17/world-food-summit-day-2/ http://africareportingproject.org/2009/11/17/world-food-summit-day-2/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:42:40 +0000 sha.evans http://africareportingproject.org/?p=450 Abla Mahdi Abdel Moniem is the executive director of Hawa, a women’s rights and humanitarian organization in Sudan.  While UN leaders met in the comfort of the FAO building in Rome on Monday and Tuesday, Abdel Moniem, along with other NGO leaders, met at a tent in the park across the street.  Later they met at an almost secret location resembling an old carnival near a decrepit art museum.  As part of a movement of the People’s Food Sovereignty Forum, social organization leaders from various countries came together to declare a need for change and food security in developing countries.  A witness to the violence and tragedy in Darfur, Abdel Moniem had a strong message for President Obama and the American people regarding terrorism and the need for peace to end hunger in developing countries.

Audio slideshow produced by SHALWAH EVANS and ALEXIA UNDERWOOD

Here is a summary of Day 2 at the People’s Food Sovereignty Forum.

Video by MARTIN RICARD and ALEXIA UNDERWOOD

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