USAID will host a public meeting of its Board for International Food and Agricultural Development at the Marriott Hotel, Salon B, in Des Moines on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 from 12:30pm to 4:30pm.
BIFAD Chair Brady J. Deaton will lead the meeting; he will be joined by BIFAD members Gebisa Ejeta, Distinguished Professor, Purdue University; Waded Cruzado, President, Montana State University; Harold Martin, Chancellor, North Carolina A&T University; and Marty McVey, President of McVey Investments. The meeting will include the following sessions: Report on the BIFAD HICD study; Updates from USAID on the Feed the Future Initiative; a panel on the Economic Benefits from Global Agricultural Research; and a panel on Youth Engagement in Food Security Efforts. Chair Deaton will present the award for excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab to a faculty member and/or student researcher. A public comment period of 30 minutes at the end of the meeting will provide opportunity for a robust discussion of issues raised during the meeting.
12:30 pm Chair Brady Deaton opens meeting and reviews agenda
Welcome by BIFAD Chair Brady Deaton
Old and new business
Gebisa Ejeta, BIFAD Board Member, and Vic Lechtenberg, Purdue University - Report on BIFAD HICD study
12:45 pm BIFAD Member Outreach Reports
Chair Brady Deaton – Report on World Edible Legume Researcher Conference hosted by USAID Innovation Lab for Grain Legumes
1:00 pm Panel #1: Needs for agricultural research capacity in order to feed the world in 2050
Moderator: Harold Martin, BIFAD Board Member
Panelists: George Norton, Virginia Tech – Returns to Investment in Agricultural Research
Keith Fuglie, USDA-ERS – Total Factor Productivity Studies
1:45 pm USAID Updates
Tjada McKenna, BFS/AA - Feed the Future Bureau
Richard Greene, USAID/BFS Sr. Deputy Assistant Administrator -USAID Nutrition Strategy
Rob Bertram, BFS Chief Scientist - Feed the Future Research, Policy and Capacity Development
2:15 pm Question/Answer and Comment Period by BIFAD Members and public
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Welcome to the World Food Prize by Ambassador Kenneth Quinn
2:50 pm Panel #2: Youth Engagement in Food Security Efforts
Moderator: Brady Deaton, BIFAD Chair
Panelists: June Henton, Auburn University - Auburn University Hunger Initiative
Gary Burniske, Purdue University - Global Food Security Fellows Program
3:15 pm Question/Answer and Comment Period by BIFAD Members
3:30 pm Innovation Lab Awards
4:00 pm Public comment period (in-person audience & submitted questions)
4:30 pm Closing Remarks & Adjourn
Join Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences AWARE Reception and start your World Food Prize week with food, drinks and the opportunity to meet and recognize remarkable women in agriculture, special guests, World Food Prize Laureates and Borlaug Field Academy winners.
AWARE believes that focusing on women in agriculture holds the greatest potential to make significant impact in rural development. For more information visit ip.cals.cornell.edu/AWARE.The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) and DuPont invite you to honor the 2014 Borlaug CAST Communication Award winner on the occasion of the 2014 Borlaug Dialogue hosted by the World Food Prize Foundation.
Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam, an Animal Genomics and Biotechnology Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis, will speak on, The Livestock Revolution. The award presentation will be followed by Food Dialogues® hosted by U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance. The Food Dialogues panelists will be discussing GMOs and the Consumer Mindset: Do Perception and Marketing Outweigh Science.
Agenda:
7:00 - 7:30 a.m.
Complimentary Breakfast sponsored by DuPont Pioneer
7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
Borlaug CAST Communication Award Program
~ Winner's Remarks: Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam - The Livestock Revolution
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Food Dialogues hosted by U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance - GMOs and the Consumer Mindset: Do Perception and Marketing Outweigh Science?
Panelists:
~ Jay Byrne, President, v-Fluence Interactive
~ Julie Kenney, Farmer, CommonGround Iowa
~ David Sutherland, Professional Artist & Amateur Animal Rights/Vegan Activist
~ Alison Van Eenennaam, Cooperative Extension Specialist, Animal Genomics and Biotechnology, University of California--Davis
This event is free and open to the public. An RSVP is requested by clicking here, or by emailing Melissa Sly at msly@cast-science.org.
The goal of the side event is to raise awareness about the opportunities and challenges facing family farms in the 21st century, and share experiences and knowledge on interventions that are needed to make them profitable and sustainable. The side event will feature two panel discussions, the first one focusing on what smallholder farmer’s need to improve and sustain their farming business and the second one on practical interventions, including technologies, policies and institutions needed to support such family farms. Speakers will include family farmers, policy makers, and opinion and business leaders.
RSVP’s should be sent to: FAOLOW-IYFF@FAO.ORG
Join us for a discussion on how U.S. food assistance has evolved in recent years and learn how two USAID partners are transforming landscapes and livelihoods of the very poor to improve food security in Ethiopia and Bangladesh.
Featuring
RSVP to: Jessica Hartl, jhartl@usaid.gov
This workshop builds on a new guide, “From Smallholders to Shareholders: A Guide to Optimizing Private Sector Partnerships for Smallholder Impact,” which details how to successfully implement private sector partnerships for smallholder impact. The interactive format highlights case studies from the guide as well as innovative partnerships, licensing and local manufacturing, marketing and distribution, extension and other forms of customer support, and financing. Registration is required at http://www.partneringforinnovation.org/world-food-prize.aspx. Continental breakfast will be provided.
1. Speaker Presentations
About the Sponsor
Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation is a USAID program focused on finding and commercializing agricultural technologies that can help smallholder farmers. The program helps companies build profitable, sustainable businesses by funding them to launch the most effective technologies into new smallholder markets. The program also facilitates partnerships between USAID Missions and the private sector, and promotes effective business models and practices that bring agricultural technologies to smallholder farmers through its online community the AgTechXChange.
Welcome:
Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, President, World Food Prize Foundation
Special Address:
Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, 2014 World Food Prize Laureate
Discussion Moderator:
Roger Mireles, Assistant Deputy Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA)
Panel:
Dr. Elise Golan, Director for Sustainable Development, Office of the Chief Economist (USDA)
Dr. Steve Sonka, Research Professor, ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss
Dr. George Opit, Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University
Augustus Dery Ninfaa, Postharvest Technologist, Bolgatanaga Polytechnic
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) in coordination with the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU), would like to invite you to an interactive, two-hour session moderated by World Food Prize Laureate Gebisa Ejeta on the future role of capacity building and higher education in agricultural development.
This Borlaug Dialogue side event will take place on Wednesday, October 15, from 10:30am-12:30pm CDT in the Cedar Rapids Room on the 3rd floor of the Downtown Des Moines Marriott.
In November 2014, USAID and BIFAD in coordination with APLU will launch a global e-consultation that will include multiple formats of engagement over a period of two weeks.
The e-consultation will invite feedback from an international audience on recently published reports on capacity development and higher education in agricultural development:
10:30-10:45am - Introduction of Session and welcome
Brady Deaton, BIFAD Chair, Moderator - Welcome
Gebisa Ejeta, World Food Prize Laureate and BIFAD member - Introduction of session issues
Richard Greene, USAID/BFS Sr. Deputy Assistant Administrator - USAID Feed the Future initiatives in HICD
Tag Demment, APLU VP of International Programs - APLU introduction
10:45-11:15am - Brief Overview of Reports from the Report Authors:
Victor Lechtenberg, Purdue University - BIFAD HICD Study
Andrew Gilboy, Associates for Global Change - Good Practices in Leveraging Long-term Training Study
Anne Claire Hervy, APLU - African Higher Education Study
11:15-11:45am - Response to Presentations and Innovative Ideas
Greg Traxler, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Gates experience with HICD programs
Ruth Oniango, Kenyan Agriculture Leader - Perspective on HICD studies
David Bathrick, Retired USAID Agricultural Development Officer - HICD Needs and Reflections
11:45-12:15am - Discussion
12:15-12:30pm - Preview of BIFAD/USAID/APLU e-consultation
Caitlin Nordehn, Cultural Practice
12:30pm - Session Closing
Gebisa Ejeta, World Food Prize Laureate and BIFAD member
Panelists:
Dr. Dilip Kulkarni, President, Agri-food Division, Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd.
Dr. Keith Fuglie, Branch Chief for Resource, Environmental and Science Policy, USDA ERS
Dr. Thomas J. Herlehy, Practice Area Manager for Crops, International Development Division, Land O’Lakes, Inc.
Mr. Jesus Madrazo, Vice President, Corporate Engagement, Monsanto & GHI Board Chair
RSVP and more information at: https://gap2014.eventbrite.com
Reception and formal presentation of The Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. The award presentation is appropriately held in the historically preserved and environmentally renovated World Food Prize Hall of Laureates. This $29.8 million project restored the century-old Des Moines Public Library and transformed it as a special tribute to Nobel Peace Prize winner and World Food Prize founder Dr. Norman E. Borlaug.
This $10,000 award recognizes exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under the age of 40 who has clearly demonstrated Borlaug-like intellectual courage, stamina and determination in the fight to eliminate global hunger and poverty.
Dr. Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, announced during the 25th World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony in 2011 that the Foundation would commit $1 million to endow this annual award in honor of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, whose early work in Mexico was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Open to all 2014 Borlaug Dialogue attendees.
Join us for a panel discussion and reception hosted by Dalberg and the Initiative for Smallholder Finance.
The theme of this year’s Borlaug Dialogue highlights the powers of intensification, innovation, and inspiration to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Dalberg and the Initiative for Smallholder Finance have explored how specific products and services can improve smallholders’ lives by expanding the reach of financing for smallholder farmers. We invite you to join us for a lively discussion with some of our partners in these efforts:
PANELISTS
Please RSVP at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ripple-effect-how-smallholder-finance-can-improve-farmers-lives-yields-tickets-13419683635
Follow the conversation on Twitter: #smallholderfin
SPEAKER BIOS:
JANE ABRAMOVICH | Access to Finance Practice Leader, TechnoServe
Jane Abramovich, CFA, leads TechnoServe’s global Access to Finance Practice Group, where she manages strategic relationships with financial service partners, provides technical expertise to program design and implementation teams, develops and shares best practices, tools and innovations around lasting financial solutions in the developing world. Prior to TechnoServe, Jane held financial advisory and deal origination roles, including at UBS Investment Bank, and most recently, as National Director of Capital Markets at Jones Lang LaSalle.
WILLY FOOTE | Founder and CEO, Root Capital
Willy Foote is the founder and CEO of Root Capital. After initially working on Wall Street in Latin American corporate finance, Willy undertook a business journalism fellowship in Mexico, discovering the challenges faced by cooperatives and small producers: lack of capital, qualified employees, market access and knowledge. In 1999 he founded Root Capital, a nonprofit social investment fund, to address these needs and grow prosperity in poor, environmentally vulnerable places. Root Capital lends capital, delivers financial training, and strengthens market connections for small and growing agricultural businesses across Latin America and Africa. Willy holds an M.S. in development economics from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Yale University.
DENNIS RIPLEY | Chief Business Development Officer, Opportunity International
Dennis sets the institutional and corporate donor fundraising strategy and provides oversight for the grant and equity funding raised and placed in Opportunity’s financial institutions in 21 countries. He has served on the board of our financial institutions in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Malawi, as well as the microinsurance organization, MicroEnsure. Dennis joined Opportunity in 1992 as its e:xecutive vice president, overseeing global operations.
ANGELA HANSEN | Partner and Director, Agriculture & Food Security Practice, Dalberg
Angela is the Director of Dalberg's Agriculture & Food Security practice and its Johannesburg, South Africa, office. Angela works on a broad range of issues including sustainable land and water management, food security, agricultural market access, access to finance and infrastructure. She advises national governments, regional bodies across the African continent as well as development partners and multinational companies at the global level. Angela grew up on an Iowa farm and was educated at the University of Minnesota (BSc), Columbia Business School, and the University of Cape Town (MBA). She has professional experience in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and Africa.
In the midst of our bountiful Iowa harvest, join the faith communities of Central Iowa in giving thanks for blessings and in praying for the alleviation of world hunger.
Those who wish and who are able are encouraged, in a manner in harmony with their faith tradition, to fast from food on a day of their choosing prior to the service. Donations of money and nonperishable food items will be accepted during the service and will benefit hunger relief efforts.
Organized by Des Moines area religious leaders.
One in every three bites of food eaten worldwide depends on pollinators, especially honey bees. The decline in honey bee population is in the news everywhere, from academic publications to the Wall Street Journal. Yale calls the declining bee population a threat to global agriculture. What exactly is going on? How big is this problem? What can we do about it? We will explore these questions with the help of leading speakers and panelists drawn from academia, government and industry.
Speakers:
Jerry Hayes - Commercial Director, Beelogics (unit of Monsanto)
Bob Curtis - Associate Director, Agricultural Affairs, Almond Board of California
Amy Toth - Assitant Professor, Dept of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
Ravi Pottathil - Chief Scientist, VAMA
Gabe Dadant - Principal, Dadant & Sons
There will be a Mexican taco bar and soft drinks for refreshments.
Please register at: http://wfp.eventbrite.com
In case of questions, please email wfp@vamainc.com
Wednesday October 15, 2014 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Salon C (Downtown Des Moines Marriott (2nd Floor))
In 2014, to mark 40 years of international research, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is facilitating a series of events that highlight the ways in which livestock research advances the global development agenda, specifically for sustainable food and nutritional security, economic well-being and healthy lives.
On 15 October 2014, ILRI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are holding a roundtable event at the 2014 Norman E Borlaug International Symposium to articulate the roles of livestock production in sustainable food production and the changes, impacts and coordination needed to address the needs of a growing human population in sustainable as well as equitable ways. This roundtable event brings together public and private actors in sustainable livestock development to discuss ways to enhance the contributions of livestock to sustainable food and nutritional security.
Welcome remarks: Lindiwe M. Sibanda, Chair, ILRI Board of Trustees and Chief Executive Officer and Head of Diplomatic Mission Food of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), South Africa
A video message from Bill Gates
Keynote: The transformative role of livestock in sustainable food systems in the developing world
Livestock dialogue: The panel will consider the critical livestock challenges and opportunities for sustainable food systems in 2054.
Moderated by Jimmy Smith, Director General, ILRI, Kenya
Panellists:
Closing summary: Suzanne Petersen, Member of ILRI Board of Trustees and Brand Marketing Manager, Land O'Lakes Purina Feed, USA
A hot buffet will be provided.
RSVP information: https://borlaug-ilri40.eventbrite.com
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze, President,
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Panelists:
David Blumberg, Chief Executive Officer, Blumberg Grain - West Africa
Dave Ramaswamy, Journalist, Africa Agribusiness Magazine
Dr. Kablan is a pharmacologist with a biotechnology and drug discovery background. He has over 12 years of postdoctoral research, teaching and science policy and regulatory experience. Dr. Kablan’s research focused on metabolic syndrome, malnutrition and the health consequences of obesity and overweight. He was a member of the USAID nutrition technical working group that is tasked with writing the USAID Nutrition Strategy, a member of the working group that wrote USAID research policy.
Dr. Kablan earned his PhD in Biotechnology & Pharmacology from the University of Bologna, Italy, and his PharmD from Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan.
With the world’s population set to exceed 9 billion by 2050, our panel of expert speakers will discuss how we can ensure that there is enough food for everyone and the challenges we face as we juggle food, energy and climate policies.
Will increasing agricultural production by 2050 put more food onto the plates of those who need it? What are the obstacles to achieving food security in a climate-constrained world? And what changes are needed in our current approach to overcome them?
Panelists:
Please join the Alliance to End Hunger at the World Food Prize as anti-hunger leaders and experts from across the organizational spectrum discuss scientific and technological innovations in agriculture, and how these translate to useful tools for farmers across the globe.
Panelists & Speakers Include:
Ambassador Tony Hall- Executive Director, Alliance to End Hunger
Dr. Manjit Misra- Director, Iowa State University- Seed Science Center
TBD- Elanco Animal Health
Dr. Jonathan Wadsworth- Executive Secretary, CGIAR Fund Council and Head of
the CGIAR Fund Office
Reverend David Beckmann- President, Bread for the World (and former World
Food Prize Laureate)
Dave Nelson- Farmer, Nelson Family Farms (IA) and Farmers Feeding the World
representative
The Alliance fosters and supports partnerships between corporations, non-profits, universities, foundations, and individuals. Success stories and possibilities for collaboration will be discussed. Breakfast will be provided.
RSVP: https://allianceworldfoodprize.eventbrite.comSoils are primarily responsible for providing water and nutrients to crops and animals. When unable to provide these services to their full capacity, crops, animals and the farmers who depend on them suffer. The reverse is also true. Restoring, conserving and enhancing soils can improve crop productivity and the resource base on which farmers depend. As a natural resource however, soil is undervalued and neglected both physically and politically. Land degradation now affects an estimated one-third of the earth’s land area and 3.2 billion people. Developing countries and smallholder farmers are affected most severely.
Experts from the Montpellier Panel and soil sciences discuss why soil must become a global priority – from the Sustainable Development Goals to CAADP plans – and why integrated soil management for the 21st century must embrace sustainable intensification to produce climate smart soils.
The Soil Renaissance is a movement focused on the role of soil health in vibrant, profitable and sustainable natural resource systems, as well as the critical importance of soil and soil health in feeding the world’s people. Soil Renaissance work targets soil health measurement, economics, research and education.
Learn more about the Renaissance and how you can be a part of it from Farm Foundation, NFP President Neil Conklin, Cornell University Soil Ecologist Janice Thies, and Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation CEO Bill Buckner.
All Borlaug Dialogue attendees are welcome to attend.
We invite you to join GRM International, Futures Group and the Alliance to End Hunger in an interactive panel discussion looking at innovations that have the potential to substantially increase food security and bring economic and social wellbeing to smallholder farmers. We will discuss ways in which technology has been used to increase yields, availability of diverse and nutritious foods, while also improving incomes. The panel will also address how technologies and improved practices can increase productivity while conserving resources and reducing water and chemical requirements. Topics to be discussed will include:
Panelists and Speakers include:
Start and end time – Thursday, 16 October 2014 from 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Please RSVP at: GRMFuturesWorldFoodPrize.eventbrite.com
Access to financing is one of the major obstacles in agricultural entrepreneurship. Increasing the variety and accessibility of financing instruments can have major impact on the length and robustness of global supply chains, the extent of inclusion of economic bottom tier into mainstream economy, and provide the spark that can tip local economies into self-sustainment. In this session we will collect in one place, and discuss, some of the innovative financing models being used in the field. Presented by the US Department of Commerce.