Agriculture, Food Security and Inclusive Growth - SID Netherlands ...

EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS:
Max Spoor is Professor of Development Studies (in particular regarding
economies in transition) at the International Institute of Social Studies (The
Hague) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Visiting Professor at the Barcelona
Institute of International Studies, and Guest Professor at the Nanjing Agricultural
University in China. His research is focused on Asian transition economies such
as Vietnam, China, and the countries in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly
regarding economic growth, rural and environmental issues, access to land and
water resources, land grabbing, poverty, and inequality and social exclusion,
while he continues to have a research interest in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Martha Jane Robbins is a Master’s student at the International Institute of
Social Studies in the Agriculture and Rural Development specialization. Prior
to studying at the ISS, she was the International Coordinator for the National
Farmers Union (NFU) of Canada where she coordinated the NFU’s participation
in the international peasant movement La Via Campesina. She also served as
NFU Youth President from 1999-2003. In 2006, she was awarded the inaugural
Global Youth Fellowship/Gordon Global Fellowship from the Walter and Duncan
Gordon Foundation to conduct research on migrant farm workers.
René Grotenhuis is President of the Netherlands Chapter of the Society
of International Development and Chief Executive Officer of the Catholic
development organization Cordaid. He has acquired a wealth of knowledge and
experience in the field of development co-operation, initially as a policy officer
and later as a member of the Executive Board of several Dutch development
organizations (until 1998). Since his appointment as the Chief Executive Officer of
Cordaid (2003), he has become one of the key players in the Dutch development
debate, partly due to the fact that he has recently written a variety of publications
on development issues. From 2008-2011 he was the president of CIDSE, the
European network of Catholic development agencies.
Olivier De Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food since May
2008. He is a Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and at the College of
Europe (Natolin). He is also a Member of the Global Law School Faculty at New
York University and Visiting Professor at Columbia University. In 2002-2006, he
chaired the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights. From
2004 until 2008 he was the General Secretary of the International Federation
of Human Rights (FIDH) on the issue of globalization and human rights. His
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