Food Security and Climate change: EU and global food governance

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TEACHING STAFF

The course is aimed at students of the MA degree course in International Relations, held in English, at the Department of Political Sciences. It will also be open to the participation of undergraduate and graduate students from the Department of Economics and the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences of the University of Perugia. It will be held with a multidisciplinary approach, that represents a major innovation in the teaching activities of the Department. It will involve scholars from different disciplines (Economics, History, Demography, Law, Agriculture) which, with the supervision of the module Coordinator, will deal with the different aspects of a complex topic such as that of food security.

IL COORDINATORE,  Luca Pieroni
PhD, Full Professor in Economics

Selected Personal Profile

Work experience
 

[Since 2022]

  

Full Professor in Economics
 

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University of Perugia, Department of Political Science, Via Pascoli 20, Italy
 

[Since 2015]

  

Research Fellow
 

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Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), Cape Town, South Africa

Education and training

  

[2005-2009]

  

PhD in Economics

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University of the West of England, Bristol

[2002-2005]

  

PhD in Political Economy

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University of Verona, Italy

Management and leadership skills

[Since 2021]

  

Research coordinator: “Legality, social rights and welfare policies in a European context”, Centre of Studies on Legality and Participation, “Department of excellence”, University of Perugia, Department of Political Science

[Since 2019]

  

Programme director: Degree course in International relations (Master level, 2 years), University of Perugia, Department of Political Science

[2016 - 2017] 

 

External expert for implementing a new database in military expenditure, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
     
Some publications  
  • 2013. Food Prices and Overweight Patterns in Italy, (with Lanari D., Salmasi L.), European Journal of Health Economics, Springer Jour., vol. 14:133–151.
  • 2013. Background Risk of Food Insecurity and Insurance Behaviour: Evidence from the West Bank (with Cavatorta), Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 43: 278–290.
  • 2014. Fast-food consumption and body weight. Evidence from the UK (with Salmasi L.), Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46, 94-95.
  • 2015. Immigration policy and birth weight. Positive externalities in Italian law (with Salmasi L.), Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 43,128-139.
  • 2018 Cash Transfers and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Burchi et al. ), South African Journal of Economics, Wiley Journals, vol.  86, (4), 383-401.