The Chicago Council on Global Affairs will be hosting a Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security on May 20 in Washington, D.C. The event purposes to build and sustain the gathering momentum for change in U.S. food security and agricultural development policy. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is pleased to announce that the event will feature the release of the Feed the Future Guide, the implementation strategy for the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative.
The event’s agenda can be found here.
Those interested can follow the Symposium’s proceedings:
- Webcast - Sessions from 9:00a.m. – 1:30 p.m. will be webcasted at https://statedept.connectsolutions.com/foodsecurity.
- Twitter – follow and discuss the symposium by using hashtag #globalag. Pioneer Hi-Bred will be tweeting throughout the day’s event @PioneerHiBred. ICRW (@icrw), IFPRI, (@IFPRI), and the World Food Prize (@WorldFoodPrize) will also be tweeting.
- The USG Feed the Future Guide, which will be released at the event, will be available shortly after Administrator Shah’s announcement at www.feedthefuture.gov.
- Global Food for Thought – the blog will include feature commentaries from Symposium speakers, and a special edition of the news brief summarizing the event’s proceedings will be circulated on Friday, May 21st.
Additionally, America.gov will be providing updates on the Symposium throughout the day.
The symposium will be led by the Global Agricultural Development Initiative cochairs, Catherine Bertini, former executive director of the UN World Food Programme, and Dan Glickman, former secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Keynotes/Distinguished Speakers include:
- Rajiv Shah, administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
- Thomas Vilsack, secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Namanga Ngongi, president, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president, Liberia
Confirmed Discussants include:
- Aghatham Ag Alhassane, minister of agriculture, Republic of Mali
- Deborah Atwood, director, Corporate Affairs and Public Policy, Mars
- Rodney Bent, executive advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Doug Bereuter, president, The Asia Foundation
- Gordon Conway, professor of International Development, Imperial College London
- Rosa DeLauro, member, U.S. House of Representatives
- Shenggen Fan, director general, International Food Policy Research Institute
- Raymond Gilpin, associate vice president, U.S. Institute of Peace
- Cheryl Mills, counselor and chief of staff, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of State
- Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, minister, Department of Food and Disaster Management, People’s Republic of Bangladesh
- Paul Schickler, president, Pioneer Hi-bred
- Ritu Sharma, president, Women Thrive Worldwide
- Mark Suzman, acting president, Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Robert Thompson, Professor Emeritus in Agricultural Policy, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
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