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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 McGill University. He is the immed
 iate past Chair of the North South Institute\, an international developmen
 t research institute\; and\, the Forum on Democratic Global Governance. Ad
 ditionally\, he is a member of the C20\, the civil society consultative bo
 dy to the G20. From 1998-2008\, he was the founding Director of the Intern
 ational Land Coalition (headquartered in Rome)\, an alliance of United Nat
 ions\, civil society\, and multilateral organizations working to enable ru
 ral poor families to gain their land and resource rights. His civil societ
 y career\, from 1973 to 1998\, included 10 years as the Director of Partne
 rs in Rural Development. He has chaired the NGO Advisory Committee to the 
 United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development\; served on
  the international executive of the Society for International Development 
 1998-2008\; been an advisor to the European Commission\, FAO\, African Uni
 on\, Asian Development Bank\, and World Bank. He has chaired a number of h
 igh-level policy dialogues during the UN Commission on Sustainable Develop
 ment\; and served on the committee that designed the action plan for the C
 ommission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor.\n\nAbstract\n\nWhereas the
  property rights of poor people were previously seen as a call for social 
 justice\, today land rights are understood to also be at the nexus of the 
 economic\, environmental\, political and social order. If these issue and 
 challenges are approached separately\, the responses to one often offsets 
 one or more of the others\, due to competing and powerful vested interests
  and the common exclusion of those most highly affected - the land poor. W
 hen land issues and rights take multi-functionality as their starting poin
 t\, the potential for a more inclusive\, equitable and sustainable outcome
  rises significantly.\n\nThe agenda for change and the ways to get there a
 re well known.The multi-functional potential of land to simultaneously wor
 k on multiple levels of economic\, environmental and social importance are
  within reach. Whereas the “nay-sayers” say there is a need to know more\,
  citizens are saying more than enough is known to do more. While leaders w
 ho are not listening are doing so at their peril\, they put the rest of th
 eir people at peril. Citizen voices must be heard. It is in our common int
 erest.\n
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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:https://www.mcgill.ca/globalfoodsecurity/channels/event/ground-multi-fu
 nctionality-land-265073
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