Seminar series: Water, Energy, Land and Food Security. November 26

November 26 2014
2.00 pm

International Seminar

“Conflicts, landscape and renewable energies”
Laura Fregolent (University IUAV of Venice)

“Land grab: the case of soya and Argentina”
Matilde Carabellese (University of Naples)

“Food security and Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment: international debate and policy initiatives”
Filiberto Altobelli (Istituto Nazionale di Economia Agraria)

Laura Fregolent is Associate professor of Urban Planning at the University IUAV of Venice. Her researches studies are focused in two main areas: processes of sprawl and interactions between planning tools and principles of sustainable development; relationship between territorial transformations and social dynamics. In these two research fields she analyzes the structural characteristics of urban and territorial transformations and studied the possible uses of plans and policies in a sustainable way and how the use of land influenced the insurgence of social movements and the participation practices.
Matilde Carabellese holds a II level University Master Degree in Euro-Mediterranean Culture and Policies (2007) and a PhD in Development Geography (2014) both from the University of Naples “l’Orientale”. For her PhD thesis, she examined the phenomenon of “land grabbing”, focusing on the expansion of genetically modified soy production into the Chaco Province of Argentina. Her main research interests are in the fields of political and environmental geography with particular attention to natural resource governance, land issues, informal waste collectors and Romani politics.
Filiberto Altobelli His research focuses on economic and environmental sustainability and development of methodologies for the assessment of phenomena and processes in the agro-environment context. His major research focus is water use and water management in agriculture sector.

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. 

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

Venue
Room Tafuri, Palazzo Badoer
San Polo 2468
IUAV University of Venice

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