2024 Press Room Schedule of Events and Hours

During World Food Prize Week press and media partners are required to check in at the press room when arriving onsite for the first time. Press and media partners are required to present an ID to pick up World Food Prize Week credentials. 

• Verified members of the press will need to produce a valid press badge in order to collect their credentials for access to any events during the World Food Prize Week of Events. If you do not have a valid press pass onsite at the event you will not be permitted entry. 
• For event security purposes, event organizers cannot guarantee entry to media that have not registered ahead of time.
• The press room is located in the Iowa Events Center - 4th Floor Room 401. This is right off the escalators. All Press and Media Partners do need to register for the Borlaug Dialogue in this room. 

Tuesday, October 29

Hours: 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

• 2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | Press Conference with Global Ministers
  • Hon. Laura Suazo | Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock, Republic of Honduras
  • Hon. Henry Musa Kpaka | Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Republic of Sierra Leone
  • Ambassador Elsie Sia Kansa, Ambassador to the United States from Tanzania
     
• 3:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Press Conference with USAID and MCC

Wednesday, October 30

Hours: 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

• 10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | USDA Press Announcement - Food Aid
  • USDA Under Secretary Alexis Taylor
     
• 10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | 2024 Laureate Press Conference
  • Drs. Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler
     
• 3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Press Conference - Call to Action by all World Food Prize Laureates
   
• 3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. | Press Conference - ZeaKal Announcement

Thursday, October 31

Hours: 7:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

• 10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Press Conference
  • Hon. Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
     
• 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Bold Measures to Feed Africa Press Conference
  • H.E. Julius Maada Bio | President, Republic of Sierra Leone
  • H.E. Samia Suluhu Hassan | President, United Republic of Tanzania
  • H.E. Sahle-Work Zewde | Former President, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
  • Hon. Akinwumi Adesina | 2017 World Food Prize Laureate and President, African Development Bank Group

PRESS AND MEDIA PARTNERS CURRENTLY REPRESENTED (As of 10/24 at 10 AM):

1. Africalivenetwork.tv
2. Ag Policy
3. Agri Marketing magazine
4. Agri-Pulse Communications
5. Bloomberg News
6. Brownfield Ag News
7. Des Moines Register
8. Devex
9. Eagle Radio
10. Farm Progress
11. Flour Mills of Nigeria
12. Forbes
13. IowaPBS
14. Jack's Shack International LLC
15. North Shore Productions/Farm to Fork
16. Successful Farming
17. The Associated Press
18. Truthdig.com / The Nation / Food & Environmental Reporting Network
19. USDA Radio News
20. Vanguard Newspapers
21. Viewfinder