EcoFair Trade Dialogue

"Teaching Ecofair Trade" was a joint EU project together with Caritas Czech, MISEREOR, Mendel University Brno and Heinrich-Böll-Foundation to develop and pilot experienced based and multilevel teaching modules which enable European Universities to integrate the perspective of the human right to food as a key turning point for teaching agricultural trade and investment policy.

The project was running over a period of three years between March 2013 and February 2016. The main perspective of the project was to emphasise on a strong link between European and southern civil society and different European Universities to enable young future decision makers to actively understand the relevance of their studies and the political importance to eradicate poverty, promote justice and human rights. This dossier provides a selection of activities and studies that were realized as part of the project "Teaching Ecofair Trade".

Projects

Studies

Introducing the Right to Food in University Curricula

While it is broadly recognised that hunger is a function of entitlements and not of food availability as such, there is still a vacuum in research and development education with regard to introducing a human rights and governance lens to teaching. This paper showes how this can be done.

Isabella Rae, Anne Bellows, Stefanie Lemke, Frank Mischler, Daniela Nunez

Foreign Direct Investment in Agri-Food Networks in India and Sub-Saharan Africa

What are the current developments in Foreign Direct Investment by EU countries in the agricultural sectors of Sub-Saharan Africa and India? This study gives detailed background information.

Martin Franz, Philip Müller

Chinese agricultural investors and their impacts on rural households in Myanmar

After more than fifty years of socialist regime, Myanmar opened up their land market with the modifications to their Land Laws and Foreign Investment Law in 2011. Since then, large land concessions have increased dramatically.

Miriam Esmaragda Romero Antonio

Atlases

Soil Atlas 2015

Atlas

To mark the International Year of Soils, the 2015 Soil Atlas presents facts and figures on the importance and condition of land, soils, and arable land in Germany, Europe, and worldwide. In keeping with tradition, the Soil Atlas offers numerous graphics and articles providing up-to-date insights into the condition and threats to the soils on which we depend.