Rethinking Development Cooperation Conference

• Successes and failures of development cooperation
• New donors and South-South cooperation
• The SDGs and the future development studies
• Power, politics, and the political economy of development cooperation
• Accountability in development policy
• Beyond aid: global structural policy and global public goods
• Post-Development, local knowledge, and alternatives to 'development'
• Reflection on cooperation among Universities in North and South

Highlights

- Keynote “Rethinking development cooperation”
Jenny Kopsch-Xhema, Food Security Center (FSC) at University of Hohenheim, Germany

- Discussion panel: Science cooperation for development?
Dr. Sintayehu Yirgem Mersha, CLIFOOD coordinator at Hawassa University, Ethiopia

CEOs Dr. Jenny Kopsch-Xhema and Dr. Nicole Schönleber together with CLIFOOD Coordinators Dr. Susanne Dreschl-Bogale (University of Hohenheim) and Dr. Sintayehu Yigrem Mersha (Hawassa University) attended the conference. During the morning session Dr. Jenny Kopsch-Xhema gave a keynote speech to “Rethinking development cooperation”. In the afternoon session Dr. Sintayehu Yigrem Mersha will talk about CLIFOOD in the discussion panel: Science cooperation for development?

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