BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250709T193713EDT-8374grVjgb@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250709T233713Z DESCRIPTION:On February 14\, you are invited to join us for the Margaret A. Gilliam Lecture in Food Security\, featuring guest speaker Bruce H. Moore \, civil society activist\, international development advisor and former U nited Nations Director.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nAt present\, Bruce Moore s erves on the Board of Transparency International Canada and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Huairou Commission\, an international alliance of grassroots women’s organizations\; Canadians for Tax Fairness\; and th e Institute for Global Food Security at ϲ University.  He is the imme diate past Chair of the North South Institute\, an international developme nt research institute\; and\, the Forum on Democratic Global Governance.  Additionally\, he is a member of the C20\, the civil society consultative body to the G20. From 1998-2008\, he was the founding Director of the Inte rnational Land Coalition (headquartered in Rome)\, an alliance of United N ations\, civil society\, and multilateral organizations working to enable rural poor families to gain their land and resource rights. His civil soci ety career\, from 1973 to 1998\, included 10 years as the Director of Part ners in Rural Development. He has chaired the NGO Advisory Committee to th e United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development\; served on the international executive of the Society for International Developmen t 1998-2008\; been an advisor to the European Commission\, FAO\, African U nion\, Asian Development Bank\, and World Bank.  He has chaired a number o f high-level policy dialogues during the UN Commission on Sustainable Deve lopment\; and served on the committee that designed the action plan for th e Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor.\n\nABSTRACT\n\nWhereas the property rights of poor people were previously seen as a call for soci al justice\, today land rights are understood to also be at the nexus of t he economic\, environmental\, political and social order. If these issue a nd challenges are approached separately\, the responses to one often offse ts one or more of the others\, due to competing  and powerful vested inter ests and the common exclusion of those most highly affected - the land poo r.  When land issues and rights take multi-functionality as their starting point\, the potential for a more inclusive\, equitable and sustainable ou tcome rises significantly.\n\nThe agenda for change and the ways to get th ere are well known.  The multi-functional potential of land to simultaneou sly work on multiple levels of economic\, environmental and social importa nce are within reach.  Whereas the “nay-sayers” say there is a need to kno w more\, citizens are saying more than enough is known to do more.  While leaders who are not listening are doing so at their peril\, they put the r est of their people at peril. Citizen voices must be heard.  It is in our common interest.\n DTSTART:20170214T150000Z DTEND:20170214T150000Z LOCATION:R2-046\, Raymond Building\, CA\, QC\, St Anne de Bellevue\, H9X 3V 9\, 21111 Lakeshore Road SUMMARY:From the Ground Up: the multi-functionality of land URL:/globalfoodsecurity/channels/event/ground-multi-fu nctionality-land-265073 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR