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From 2018–2020, the Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Seminar Series will address each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each seminar focuses on an individual Goal, offering an opportunity to explore the intent of the Goal, its targets, and some of the initiatives being undertaken to deliver on them. Each seminar will be accompanied a Briefing Paper.

You are invited to this free seminar, the second in our series:

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Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Seminar Series

SDG 2: Zero Hunger

Tuesday, 26 February 2019

Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero Hunger, aims to ‘end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.’ Amid rising calls to address food security and mitigate the effects of climate change through radical change to global food and agricultural systems, this seminar will address SDG2 through the lens of both the local and the global. Panellists will address the question of food security at the local level, discussing how this connects to global agricultural production and the local and global threat posed by climate change.

Panellists:

Associate Professor Lauren Rickards, Co-Leader, Climate Change and Resilience Research Program, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University

Nikki Robinson, Prevention Coordinator, and Claire Tartaro, Food Security Officer – Latrobe, Central West Gippsland Primary Care Partnership

Dr Mary Johnson, Research Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University

Chair: Emma Shortis, Research Officer at the EU Centre, and member of the Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University

When: Tuesday, 26 February, 12.30-2:00pm

Where: RMIT University Council Chamber, Building 1, Level 2R, 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne.

RSVP:  https://sdg2.eventbrite.com.au/

Light refreshments will be served.
Free event.

Flyer attached.

Accessibility Information

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Presented by the EU Centre and Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University. The Jean Monnet SDG Network is co-funded by the Jean Monnet Activities Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Project number: 587660-Epp-1-2017-1-AU-EPPJMO-NETWORK.

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The European Union Centre at RMIT University is funded through grants from the EU Jean Monnet Programme and RMIT University.