Economics, Health and Happiness
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On January 14-16, 2016 ISET-PI’s Senior Researcher Nino Doghonadze attended a conference centered on discussion of, “Economics, Health and Happiness” in Lugano, Switzerland. The conference brought together interdisciplinary researchers from approximately 60 countries. The event was jointly organized by the department of Business Economics, Health & Social Care of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, HEIRS and SSPH+.
The conference covered a wide variety of topics from genetics of happiness as well as an attempt to measure the Buddhist definition of happiness, Nino presented her working paper co-authored with ISET professors Karine Torosyan and Norberto Pignatti, titled “The choice of women between employment and homestay, and their happiness and life satisfaction: the case of the South Caucasus”. Nino received positive feedback from the participants of the conference and valuable comments which she will use to revise her paper.
The strategy on Food Security
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On December 29, 2015 APRC representatives attended a presentation of the strategy on Food Security (FS) prepared by the working group on food security chaired by the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) with the support of OXFAM.
The main goal of the meeting was to present recommendations on FS Strategy of Georgia. The document resented at the meeting addressed the main dimensions of FS particularly focusing on “Availability” and “Access” dimensions. It included recommendations to develop FS law or program, support of domestic food production with the aim of import substitution and the resolution of land utilization issues. The document also included section about strategy development and implementation. Coordination among local and foreign stakeholders involved in FS as well as issues related to statistics and human resources were also discussed the presentation.
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