World Food Prize Foundation
2006 Borlaug Dialogue
October 18-19, 2001 | Des Moines, Iowa
Can We Replicate the Single Greatest Period of Food Production in Human History?
[ 2006 Symposium Brochure (PDF) ]
More than 700 people attended the 2006 World Food Prize International Symposium, held October 18-20, 2006 in Des Moines, Iowa.
The theme of the symposium was “The Green Revolution Redux: Can We Replicate the Single Greatest Period of Food Production in All Human History?”
As a special honor to the founder of The World Food Prize and the “Father of the Green Revolution,” Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, in 2006 The World Food Prize International Symposium was officially renamed the Dr. Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium.
The 2006 International Symposium also marked the 20th Anniversary of The World Food Prize.
Transcripts by Agenda
Opening Ceremony
Ambassador Kenneth Quinn – President, The World Food Prize Foundation
Session One: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Moderator: Sir Gordon Conway – Chief Scientific Advisor, UK Department for International Development and President (ret.), Rockefeller Foundation
M.S. Swaminathan – Chair, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation; Co-Chair, UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger; 1987 World Food Prize Laureate
Ismail Serageldin – Director, Library of Alexandria; Former Chairman, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Roger Thurow/Scott Kilman – Reporters, The Wall Street Journal
Session Two: Agricultural and International Development
Mike Johanns – Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Peter McPherson – President, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges ; Founding Co-Chair, The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
H.E. Abdoulaye Diop – Mali Ambassador to the United States
Keynote Luncheon
Josette Sheeran – U.S. Under Secretary of State for Agricultural, Business, and Economic Affairs
Session Three: Public and Private Sector Partnerships
Moderator: Sir Gordon Conway – Chief Scientific Advisor, UK Department for International Development and President (ret.), Rockefeller Foundation
Rajiv Shah – Director for Financial Services & Agriculture, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Catherine Bertini – Professor of Practice in Public Administration, Syracuse University; 2003 World Food Prize Laureate
Norman Borlaug – 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Founder, The World Food Prize
Zhangliang Chen – President, Chinese Agricultural University; Director, Chinese National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering
Moderator: John Ruff – Sr. Vice President, Kraft Foods
Robert Forney – President, Global Food Banking Network
James Morris – Executive Director, UN World Food Programme
Hans Jöhr – Assistant Vice President and Corporate Head of Agriculture, Nestle Ltd.
Mark McLellan – Dean of Research, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Science; Former President, Institute of Food Technologists
Breakfast Keynote: Food and Security
Bob Gates – President, Texas A&M University; Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Session Four: Future Challenges in Food Production
Zhangliang Chen – President, Chinese Agricultural University; Director, Chinese National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering
Calestous Juma – Director, Harvard University Science, Technology and Globalization Project; Chair, UN Millennium Project Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation
Pedro Sanchez – Director, Tropical Agriculture, Earth Institute at Columbia University; Co-Chair, UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger; 2002 World Food Prize Laureate
Hans Herren – President, Millennium Institute, Washington, D.C.; Co-Chair, International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development; 1995 World Food Prize Laureate
Robert Watson – Chief Scientist and Senior Advisor, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (ESSD) at the World Bank; Director, International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development
Michael Osterholm – Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota; Associate Director, National Center for Food Protection and Defense, University of Minnesota
Laureate Luncheon
Silvio Crestana – Director-General, EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation)
Session Five: 2006 Laureates
Moderator: G. Edward Schuh
Edson Lobato, 2006 World Food Prize Laureate
Colin McClung, 2006 World Food Prize Laureate
Alysson Paolinelli, 2006 World Food Prize Laureate