As part of the 25th anniversary of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD), the university community and members of the public are invited to join an international colloquium on the Global Food and Water Security Project as well as advanced techniques in agriculture, forestry, and water stewardship.
The Global Food and Water Security Project (GFWS) is a pioneering international and interdisciplinary initiative addressing one of the most urgent global challenges: the environmental and potentially generational human health consequences of armed conflict. This is an intergenerational endeavor to benefit all of humanity – particularly women and children, mothers and babies – combining identification of pollutants and contamination, clearing, cleaning, decontamination and remediating farming strategies.
In conjunction, The Liechtenstein Group will present its projects on climate adaptive crop production, including climate-smart rice intensification; agricultural water stewardship partnerships; dealing with water scarcity; developing climate-adaptive crop production; advanced tree genetics for climate-resilient forestry; and long-term carbon stability.
This session will also include the campus premiere of the documentary short film Scars of War, Seeds of Hope: The Global Food and Water Security (GFWS) Project presented at COP30.
The hybrid international seminar will feature introductory statements by
H.H. Princess Tatjana of Liechtenstein
Jorge Fernandez Vidal
Naomi Rintoul-Hynes
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber