This section collects interview with experts, policymakers and NGOs to gather different point of view on topics of interest to the Observatory and offer readers privileged and up-to-date perspectives.
Interview with Roberto Sensi, Policy Advisor on Global Inequality at ActionAid Italia. Mr Sensi deals with issues raging from migration and development to international development cooperation, right to food and agroecology. He’s also ActionAid’s Right to Food Officer and has been Trade and Investment Policy Officer at MAIS, Movimento per l’Autosviluppo, l’Interscambio e la Solidarietà.
Interview with Cristina Rapone, Rural Migration Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Mrs Rapone has been leading analytical and technical work on rural migration and its links to agriculture and rural development. Moreover, she is actively involved in policy, advocacy, and capacity development work at global and country levels.
Interview with Mauro Martini, Migration, Remittances and Development Officer at the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Mr Martini provided technical advice to the Italian Presidency of the G20 as IFAD’s expert in the framework of the Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion.
Interview with Emanuela Del Re, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Italian scholar, sociologist, she is an expert in Conflict Studies, Migrations, Refugee Issues, Minorities, Religious Phenomena.
Interview with Massimo Livi-Bacci, professor of Demography at the "Cesare Alfieri" Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Florence. He was a senator in the Italian Parliament between 2006 and 2013, as well as a member of the upper house Foreign Affairs Committee.
Neodemos is an independent think-tank for study, analysis, and proposal whose purpose is to illustrate the meaning of current demographic trends, to interpret their short and long-term consequences, to suggest interventions and policies. It deals with population, society, and politics.
Interview with Mario Morcone, director of the Italian Refugee Council (CIR), former chief of staff of Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti (2017-18) and International Cooperation and Integration Minister Andrea Riccardi (2011-13).
CIR is an independent humanitarian NGO born in 1990 that operates at national, European and North African level to defend the rights of refugees and asylum seekers.
Migrants can help revive European agriculture, says Michele NORI, Research Fellow at the European University Institute. In a wide-ranging interview, Nori explains how youthful Africans and North Africans are already reviving rapidly aging areas of Europe and providing essential labor to till the fields.
Conversation with Sébastien Abis, Director, Club DEMETER, Associate Research Fellow at IRIS.
Africa is rich in natural resources and has the capability to feed itself. What accounts for this failure? It’s a toxic combination of poor governance, gender inequality, corruption and climate change, according to Million Belay, Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foundation, Member of the Advisory Board and Coordinator of Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
Conversation with Luca Raineri, a research fellow at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa Italy, who says Europe’s migration crisis is far from over.
Conversation with Danielle Nierenberg, president and co-founder of Food Tank.
Conversation with Maria Chiara Pastore, lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico Milano.
