Olivier De Schutter will deliver a keynote speech on “The right to food: agro-biodiversity and property rights” before joining an expert panel discussion jointly organized by German development organizations Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and KfW on the topic of "Food Security, Food production and Agro-Biodiversity: Future Challenges in Cooperation". The event takes place on the 14th September 2010 at 18:30 at the Renaissance Hotel Brussels. The panel will include speakers from the European Commission and European Parliament. There will equally be two technical experts from the two hosting organizations, as well as Prof. Joachim von Braun, former director of IFPRI and current director of the Department of Economic and Technological Change at the Center of Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn.