World Food Prize Foundation
2002 Borlaug Dialogue
October 24-25, 2002 | Des Moines, Iowa
From the Middle East to the Middle West: Managing Freshwater Shortages and Regional Water Security
Guests from around the United States and around the world traveled to Des Moines on October 24-25 to take part in our two day symposium on the coming global water crisis.
Highlighted by presentations from experts from Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, the West Bank, Sweden, Denmark, Vietnam, Canada and the United States, the World Food Prize Symposium focused on the role of agricultural development and natural resource management in fighting terrorism and other global crises.
Symposium Agenda
8:30 – 8:40 AM: Welcome to the Symposium
Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, President, World Food Prize Foundation
The Honorable Charles Grassley, U.S. Senate
8:40-9:00 AM: Keynote Address
The Honorable Elsa A. Murano, Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Symposium Chair: Margaret Catley-Carlson, Chair, Global Water Partnership
9:00 – 9:30 AM: Global Freshwater Challenges and Food Security
Sandra Postel, Director, Global Water Policy Project
9:30—10:00 AM: The Basic Human Needs for Water: Can the U.N. Millennium Goals Be Met?
Peter Gleick, President, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security
10:00—11:00 AM: World Water and Food to 2025: Dealing with Scarcity
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, 2001 World Food Prize Laureate; Former Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute
Mark Rosegrant, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
11:00—11:30 AM: Neither Water nor Food Security without a Major Shift in Thinking: A Water Scarcity Close-up
Malin Falkenmark, Senior Scientist, Stockholm International Water Institute
11:30 AM — noon: Water Rights and Community Management
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
12:00—1:30 PM: Luncheon Address
The Honorable Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
1:30—2:00 PM: Doing More with Less: Managing Freshwater Shortages with Advanced Agricultural Technologies
Erez Meltzer, President, Netafim
2:00—4:00 PM: Panel Discussion: Urban-Rural Water Dilemmas in the American Middle West
Elizabeth Becker, Chief Agricultural Writer, The New York Times
Craig Cox, Executive Director, Soil and Water Conservation Society
L.D. McMullen, CEO and General Manager, Des Moines Water Works
Jerald Schnoor, Co-Director, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, University of Iowa
Jim Gulliford, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7 (TRANSCRIPT)
Dan Towery, Natural Resources Specialist, Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC)
4:00 PM: SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM ADJOURNS FOR THE DAY
7:30 PM: World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony
7:45—9:00 AM: Breakfast Session
The Honorable Jacques Diouf, Director General, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
Symposium Chair; Margaret Catley-Carlson, Chair, Global Water Partnership
9:00—9:30 AM: Water and Food: Humanitarian Needs in Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and North Korea
Catherine Bertini, U.N. Secretary General’s Personal Humanitarian Envoy to the Middle East
9:30—10:00 AM: Rotary International’s Programs to Alleviate World Hunger
Richard King, 2001-2002 Rotary International President
10:00—10:30 AM: Water Demand Management: A Solution to Scarcity
Saul Arlosoroff, Chairman, Israel-Water Engineers Association
10:30—11:00 AM: River Basin Management in Mainland Southeast Asia
Claudia Ringler, Post-Doctoral Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
11:00—11:30 AM: Water Scarcity: From Problems to Opportunities in the Middle East
Mona El-Kady, Chair, National Water Research Center
11:30 AM — noon: Blue Gold: Allocation of a Precious Resource in the Middle East
Jad Isaac, Director General, Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem
12:00—12:30 PM: New Water for Old Crops: Can We Change the Future?
Mohammad Al -Attar, Director General, International Center for Biosaline Agriculture
12:30—2:00 PM: Laureate Luncheon
Laureate Lecture: A World Free of Hunger: What Needs to Be Done
Dr. Pedro Sanchez, 2002 World Food Prize Laureate
Sustainable Development in the Post-Johannesburg Era
Heinz Imhof, Chairman, Board of Directors, Syngenta AG
