Currently, lectures about the “Right to food” are taking place at partner universities in the Czech Republic and also abroad. Lectures are sponsored by Caritas Czech Republic as part of the activities of Eco Fair Trade. They can be head by students, academic staff and interested members of the public.

In mid-October, Frank Adeba and Salena Trammel visited the Mendel University in Brno, Palacky, the University Olomouc, and the International Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands. On that occasion, they introduced to students and academic staff the impacts of large agricultural investments to small farmers in southern Tanzania. Multinational corporations use the legislative deficiencies and lack of education of the farmers to exploit them and buy their cheap land. Frank Ademba works long term with small growers in Tanzania, thanks to the network of agricultural groups in Kilimanjaro (Kilimanjaro MVIWATA). Salena Trammel is engaged in social movements and the occupation of land at the International Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands.

I early November, Prof. Franz Martin of the University of Osnabrück visited the University in Brno and Olomouc. He focuses on foreign direct investment in the agricultural sector of developing and emerging countries. Prof. Franz presented his study on "Foreign direct investment in the agro-food networks in India and sub-Saharan Africa" (in English here). In the lecture, he spoke about the latest developments connecting large food corporations using the example of foreign investments in India. He also mentioned the difference in the growth of foreign direct investment in agriculture in developing countries and investments in Europe and the developed economies.

For now, 150 students and academics attended the lecture. In December 2015, Prof. Francois Lategan from the University of Cape Peninsula in South Africa will also join as a guest. He has long been a visiting teacher at Mendel University in Brno, and discusses the interconnections of rights to food with science.

“EcoFair Trade: Lessons about fair trade and organic farming - an innovative way of integrating food security into the European university education” takes place in cooperation with the Heinrich Boell Foundation, a German organization working in the field of development, cooperation Miserior, Mendel University and other universities in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Croatia. The European Commission and the Czech Development Agency financially support the aktivity.