JOSE LUIS VIVERO POL Email: joseluisvivero@gmail.com
Currently living in Nicaragua: Phone (505) 84458953
WORKING EXPERIENCE My thirteen years experience focuses on Food Security, Human Rights and Nutrition in Latin America, Africa and the Caucasus (having lived in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, Georgia, Ethiopia and Kenya). I developed the conceptual framework, technical details and fundraising of the high-level regional initiative “Hunger-free Latin America and the Caribbean”, as well as of the Chair on Hunger and Poverty Studies of the University of Cordoba. In the Food Security area, I have varied experience in national and regional food policies, institutional building, advocacy and applied research on social rights (mainly the Right to Food), capacity building, project planning, monitoring and evaluation, Food Security information and communication. Global governance, climate change, food culture and food ethics are recent topics of interest. ANTI-HUNGER ACHIEVEMENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Founding member and associate fellow of the Chair for Hunger and Poverty Studies (CEHAP in spanish) at the University of Córdoba, Spain (www.uco.es/catedrasyaulas/cehap ). Designer, developer and technical officer of the Regional Hunger-free Latin America and the Caribbean Initiative, whose secretariat is provided by FAO (www.rlc.fao.org/iniciativa ), Sept 2005 - Apr 2009. Founder of the regional initiative Hunger of Knowledge, Knowledge about Hunger for FAO in Central America. http://www.pesacentroamerica.org/biblioteca/ingles-HSSH.pdf Founding member of the GIISAN in Guatemala (Grupo de Información e Incidencia sobre Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional) still active http://issuu.com/joseluisvivero/docs/plan_estrat_gico_giisan Written materials: 5 books, 20 book chapters and 4 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Lecturing on Food Security in Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Ecuador, Paraguay, Chile and Spain Development of the “Chefs against Hunger” initiative to mobilise chefs and restaurants against hunger and malnutrition in Latin America. http://www.rlc.fao.org/iniciativa/chefs.htm Member of E-Group on Nutrition and Climate Change that prepared a paper for the COP 16 in Cancún (December 2010) http://www.unscn.org/en/nut-working/nutrition_and_climate_change/ Personal blog on “Hunger and Human Rights” http://hambreyderechoshumanos.blogspot.com/
TEACHING ON FOOD SECURITY AND RIGHT TO FOOD 2011: Lecture in the Graduate Course on International Development, Universidad Americana de Nicaragua, on “Humanitarian assistance, hunger and poverty”. February 2011 http://www.uam.edu.ni/postgrado/78 2010: Co-organizing the Diploma on Food Security, Right to Food and Public Policies in Central America, with the Fundación Henry Dunant (FuHD). Lecturing on “Food Sovereignty, Right to Food and Justiciability”, 15-19 November, San Salvador. http://www.fundacionhenrydunant.org/htlm/diplomados_04.html 2010: Lecture in the M.Sc. in Territorial Development at the Universidad Centroamericana de Nicaragua (UCA) on the “Human rights in development, public policies for social cohesion and hungry democracies”. Feb-Mar 2010, Managua. http://www.uca.edu.ni/postgrado/index.php?seccion=909 2009: Co-director of Diploma on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Indigenous People and Right to Food, organized by FuHD and FAO, January 2009, Santiago. Lectures on “Right to Food and Anti-hunger Policies”. http://www.fundacionhenrydunant.org/htlm/diplomados_02.html 2009: Lecture in the Diploma on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, organized by FuHD on “Right to Food in Latin America”. November, Santiago. http://www.fundacionhenrydunant.org/htlm/diplomados_02.html 2007-2008: Co-organizing and lecturing at two Diplomas on Food Security, Poverty and Development, jointly organized by FLACSO Ecuador and FAO, October-November 2007 and 2008, Quito, Ecuador. 2007: http://www.rlc.fao.org/iniciativa/pdf/sapyd.pdf 2008: http://www.flacso.org.ec/html/curso_segalim.html 2004-2005: Coordinating and lecturing at the Graduate Courses on Food Security and Poverty (156 hours). Organized by FLACSO Guatemala, University of San Carlos and University Rafael Landívar, Guatemala, Feb-Mar 2004 & April-June 2005.
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