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Please see herebelow an announcement regarding the 2nd Global Food Security Conference, 11-14 October 2015, Ithaca, NY, USA.


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Register now for the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security
11-14 October 2015, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Hosted by Cornell University and Columbia University

A reminder that the early bird registration deadline is 14 August 2015. Don't miss out - register now!

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Keynote Speakers

World-class speakers include:
Bruce Campbell, CGIAR, Denmark
Title
: Reducing risks to food systems from climate change

Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
Title: Sustainable food security and nutrition: Demystifying conventional beliefs

Eleni Gabre-Madhin, CEO, eleni LLC, Ethiopia
Title: Getting markets right for the poor in Africa

Corinna Hawkes, Fellow, City University London Centre for Food Policy and Member, IPES Food, UK
Title: To be announced

David Just, Cornell University, USA
Title: Why behavioral economics matters to global food policy

Eric Lambin, Stanford University, USA and University of Louvain, Belgium
Title: Competing demands for land in the globalization era

Rosamond Naylor, Stanford University, USA
Title: A wide-angle lens on food security: Integrating social and natural science perspectives

Sara Scherr, President of Ecoagriculture Partners, USA
Title : To be announced

Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, CEO, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), South Africa
Title: What policies do we need for agriculture to deliver positive nutrition and health outcomes?

Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and Emeritus Chairman, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, India
Title: Agricultural Biodiversity for Sustainable Food Systems and Meeting the Zero Hunger Challenge

Jennifer Thomson, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Title: Genetically modified crops: An African perspective

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Conference Themes
The 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security aims to deliver state-of-the-art analysis, inspiring visions and innovative methods arising from research in a wide range of disciplines. The conference themes are:

  • Global and local analyses of food security and its drivers (including prospective breadbasket failures, and measuring and assessing food security and its drivers)
  • Enabling policies and institutions for inclusive global food security (especially gender and generation differentiated)
  • Sustainable intensification of food production systems
  • Urbanization, food value chains, and the sustainable, secure sourcing of food
  • Competing demands and tradeoffs for land and water resources (including the next land rush)
  • Technological breakthroughs to help feed 9+ billion
  • Reducing food loss and waste
  • Reducing risks to food production and distribution from climate change
  • Consumer behavior, nutritional security and food assistance programs
  • Business-science cooperation to advance food security
  • The agriculture-nutrition-health nexus
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To find out more and to register, please visit: www.globalfoodsecurityconference.com

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