This lecture will describe the role that scientific evidence has in the establishment of governance and in its maintenance, and will also present findings from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project, the first international research project to evaluate the effectiveness of FCTC policies, including examples of how ITC findings have contributed to the formation and implementation of strong, evidence-based tobacco control policies throughout the world. The lecture will also provide a summary of ITC findings about the impact of tobacco control policies such warning labels and smoke-free laws, including similarities and differences of policy impact between high-income and low- and middle-income countries.

Clarkson and Wood situate Canada’s experience of globalization in the context of three interlinked trends: the emergence of a global supraconstitution, the transformation of the nation-state, and the growth of governance beyond the nation-state. Co-sponsored by the Canadian International Council, Waterloo Chapter.

The food price crisis of 2007-2008 resulted in widespread hunger and civil unrest across the developing world. The attention directed to the global ‘food crisis’ was quickly overshadowed by the global economic collapse in the latter part of 2008, which came on the heels of months of financial instability. Since the financial crisis erupted, food insecurity has only worsened in developing countries. In 2009, the FAO announced that the number of undernourished people on the planet had surpassed 1 billion, making the millennium development goal of halving world hunger to 450 million by 2015 that much more distant. As the reality of the long term nature of this current hunger crisis has set in, institutions of global governance have responded with plans to improve world food security. In this talk, Jennifer Clapp examines the linkages between the global economic crisis and rising hunger, and discusses the implications of various strategies for addressing the crisis for food system sustainability.