World Food Prize Foundation
2003 Borlaug Dialogue
Defeating Hunger and Famine
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The 2003 The World Food Prize International Symposium featured the first in-depth review of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals since they were adopted by over 150 Heads of State at the Global Summit held in New York in September of 2000. There was also a specific focus on the issue of hunger including keynote presentations by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, by 2003 Laureate Ms. Catherine Bertini, and by H.E. Wilberforce Kisamba Mugerwa, Minister of Agriculture in Uganda on the view from Africa. In addition, the entire UN Task Force on Hunger participated in these events, culminating in a special briefing on the UNDP Human Development Report for 2003.
Transcripts by Agenda
8:00 AM Welcome and Introduction to the Symposium
Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, President, The World Food Prize Foundation (TRANSCRIPT)
Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
8:15 – 8:45 Feeding the World: The View from Iowa
The Honorable Tom Vilsack, Governor of Iowa (TRANSCRIPT)
8:50 – 9:25 Building a Solution for Real Progress on Hunger in Africa
Dr. Peter McPherson, President, Michigan State University
Chair, Board for International Food and Development, USAID
Founding Co-Chair, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa (TRANSCRIPT)
9:30 – 10:15 The Human Development Report 2003
Dr. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Director, Human Development Office, UN Development Programme (TRANSCRIPT)
10:20 – 10:50 Globalization and World Hunger: An Independent Monitoring of Progress
Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen, 2001 World Food Prize Laureate
H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Policy, Cornell University (TRANSCRIPT)
10:50– 11:50 The Millennium Declaration to End Hunger in America
Robert Forney, President, America’s Second Harvest (TRANSCRIPT)
David Beckmann, President, Bread for the World (TRANSCRIPT)
H. Eric Schockman, President, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger (TRANSCRIPT)
12:00 – 1:45 KEYNOTE LUNCHEON: The Millennium Development Compact (TRANSCRIPT)
Session Chair:
Ambassador Kenneth Quinn
President, The World Food Prize Foundation
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs (TRANSCRIPT)
Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Director, the Millennium Project
Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General
Book signing of Human Development Report 2003, with Dr. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (immediately following the luncheon session)
2:00 – 3:00 Global Health and Food Security: Imperatives for the Future
Session Chair:
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan
1987 World Food Prize Laureate
Co-Chair, Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger
Chairman, UNESCO Cousteau Chair in Ecotechnology
Chairman, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (TRANSCRIPT)
Dr. Josh Ruxin, on Global Health and Food Security
Co-Chair, Millennium Project Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and Access to Essential Medicines
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Director of Macrohealth and Access Projects at the Mailman School of Public Health (TRANSCRIPT)
Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury on Nutrition, Women, and Children
Co-Chair, Millennium Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health
Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (TRANSCRIPT)
Dr. Elliott Sclar on Hunger and the Urban Poor
Co-Chair, Millennium Project Task Force on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers
Professor of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, Columbia University
3:00 – 3:30 What Developing Countries Need to Achieve Food Security
Hon. Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development (TRANSCRIPT)
3:30 – 4:00 How to Reduce Poverty and Malnutrition through Science and Technology
Hon. Ann Veneman, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (TRANSCRIPT)
4:30 PM Symposium Adjourns for the Day
KEYNOTE BREAKFAST: Defeating Hunger and Famine: The View from Africa
H.E. Wilberforce Kisamba-Mugerwa, Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries, Uganda
World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) (TRANSCRIPT)
Remarks by Cade Fields-Gardner, HIV/AIDS Nutrition Advisor (TRANSCRIPT)
Launching of Perspectives in World Food and Agriculture: 2004
Published by Iowa State Press,
Edited by Dr. Colin Scanes and Dr. John Miranowski
(book signing immediately following breakfast)
9:10 – 11:00 The Fight Against Hunger:
Report from the Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger
Session Chair:
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan
1987 World Food Prize Laureate
Co-Chair, Hunger Task Force
Chairman, UNESCO Cousteau Chair in Ecotechnology
Chairman, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Overview
Dr. Pedro Sanchez
2002 World Food Prize Laureate
Co-Chair, Hunger Task Force
Director of Tropical Agriculture, The Earth Institute at Columbia University (TRANSCRIPT)
Overarching Policy Reforms
Dr. Sara Scherr
Hunger Task Force Member
Director, Ecosystems Service, Forest Trends
Director, Ecoagriculture Partners (TRANSCRIPT)
The Early Action Plan
Dr. Christopher Dowswell
Hunger Task Force Member
Special Assistant to the President, Sasakawa Africa Association (TRANSCRIPT)
Communicating the Message to the Donor Community
Dr. Kevin Cleaver
Director of Agriculture and Rural Development, World Bank (TRANSCRIPT)
Communicating the Message to the Public
Mr. Richard Beahrs
Hunger Task Force Member
President and COO, Court TV (TRANSCRIPT)
11:10 – 12:10 Feeding the World in a Sustainable Environment
Session Chair:
Ms. Judith Symonds
Executive Director, Future Harvest Foundation; and Chair-Director, The Monterrey Bridge Coalition. (TRANSCRIPT)
Water, Sanitation, and Food Security:
Synergies and Trade-offs
Dr. Roberto Lenton,
Co-Chair, Millennium Project Task Force on Water and Sanitation
Executive Director, International Research Institute at Columbia University (TRANSCRIPT)
Environmental Sustainability and Food Security
Dr. Jeffrey McNeely
Chief Scientist, IUCN—The World Conservation Union (TRANSCRIPT)
The Food Industry Response to Sustainable Agriculture
Dr. Jeroen Bordewijk
President, Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI)
Chairman, Unilever Sustainable Agriculture Steering Group (TRANSCRIPT)
12:10 – 2:00 WORLD FOOD PRIZE LAUREATE LUNCHEON
2003 World Food Prize Laureate Lecture
Hon. Catherine Bertini
Under Secretary General for Management
The United Nations (TRANSCRIPT)
2:00 – 2:30 Results of the Alliance to End Hunger Poll
Mr. Thomas Freedman
Visiting Scholar of Risk, Resource and Environmental Management, Resources for the Future (TRANSCRIPT)
2:30 – 4:30 Presidential Candidates’ Forum
4:30 Symposium Adjourns