Seminar series: Water, Energy, Land and Food Security. Nov. 5, 2014

November 5, 2014
2.00 pm

International Seminar

"Water appropriation in large-scale land acquisitions"
Maria Cristina Rulli (Politecnico di Milano)

"Renewed interest for agriculture and the rush for land – Some perspectives on investment models, trends and data"
Ward Anseeuw (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

Maria Cristina Rulli is Associate Professor in Hydrology and Water Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano since 2002. She is author of papers in the fields of hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, slope stability analysis and water resources assessment. Her most recent research investigates the emergent phenomenon of the foreign direct investments in agricultural land (FDI) and the implication on water resources availability and assessment.

Ward Anseeuw, a development economist and policy analyst, is a research fellow at the Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) seconded to the Post-Graduate School of Agriculture and Rural Development of the University of Pretoria. He is also the co-director of the Center for the Study of Governance Innovations. He has conducted research for the last 15 years in Southern Africa and the African continent, more particularly on the issues of agricultural and land policies, agrarian and land reforms, land conflicts and large-scale land acquisitions.

The seminar is part of the series “Water, energy, land and food security. The challenge of large-scale land acquisitions” that will run from October 2014 to January 2015. 

Organized by The School of Doctorate of the University of Venice IUAV and the Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environment in collaboration with Venice International University. 

Wit the endorsement of: INEA, National Institute of Agricultural Economics, Comitato Expo Venezia, Enel Foundation

Venue
Room A1, Palazzo Ca' Tron

Santa Croce 1957
IUAV University of Venice

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