World Food Prize Foundation
2012 Borlaug Dialogue
Partnerships & Priorities: Transforming the Global Food Security Agenda
With the pressing environmental and demographic CHallenges facing a hungry world, we have seen a growing push toward international collaboration between institutions, disciplines, public and private sectors and countries. The 2012 Borlaug Dialogue will highlight the role of partnerships and their importance in confronting hunger challenges by driving forward cutting edge research and application at the intersection of science, education and enterprise.
The “Partnerships and Priorities” theme will ask several critical questions:
- What are some of the lessons learned from past partnerships?
- Where do we want to be and how do we best leverage partnerships to get there?
- How is the traditional food security agenda being transformed with new models of collaboration around the world?
Beginning Wednesday, Oct. 17, this three-day dialogue will address the questions above by exploring topics such as:
- Setting the Stage – What will a future landscape of a hungry world look like and how will we feed it sustainably?
- Water and Environment – How can agriculture become a part of the conservation solution and not the problem?
- Feeding Capacity – Studying past successes and future opportunities for academia to influence the global conversation
- Nutrition Value – Integrating nutrition across the entire value chain from production to consumer
- Working Capital – Leveraging global financial tools to empower smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs
- Measuring Success – From stockholder to smallholder, what are the common indicators for a successful partnership?
- Game Change – Emerging technologies shaping the future of food & agricultural development
- Waste Not, Want Not – Increased productivity is only one part of the food security equation. What are the advancements in minimizing waste in the supply chain, especially in post-harvest loss?
- Spread the Word – The role of the media in informing the public and bringing food security issues to the forefront
These and other critical issues will be explored through keynote presentations and lively and engaging “conversation” sessions that will feature the expertise and diverse perspectives of governmental leaders, policymakers, CEOs and executives from agribusiness and NGOs, scientific and academic experts, development leaders and young leaders from around the world.
As a special part of the Borlaug Dialogue, based on popular demand from last year’s focus on the next generation of leaders, we will be launching “dialogueNEXT”, our inaugural workshop series on the evening of Wednesday, October 17. This forward-thinking, youth-engaging program will include a variety of interactive seminars, conversations and rapid-fire presentations, including the effective use of mobile applications, social media, the future of social entrepreneurship in agricultural development and the emerging thought leaders who are transforming the dialogue with new ideas, concepts and achievements.
Transcripts by Agenda
1:15 p.m. Plenary Address (Video) (Transcript)
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe – Chairman of the Board, Nestlé
1:40 p.m. Conversation – Setting the Stage: One Billion Hungry – Can We Feed the World Sustainably? (Video) (Transcript)
Sir Gordon Conway – Professor of International Development, Imperial College London
Jane Karuku – President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Susan Godwin – Smallholder Farmer, Nigeria
Gebisa Ejeta – Distinguished Professor of Plant Breeding & Genetics & International Agriculture, Purdue University
Roger Thurow – Senior Fellow, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (Moderator)
3:00 p.m. Plenary Address (video) (transcript)
Sandra Peterson – CEO, Bayer CropScience
3:30 p.m. Conversation – Indices and Indicators: Creating a Common Language for Measuring Success (video) (transcript)
Leo Abruzzese – Custom Research and Editorial Director – Americas, Economist Intelligence Unit
Sara Boettiger – Founding Director, AgPartnerXChange
Rajul Pandya-Lorch – Head, 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Initiative, IFPRI
Sandy Andelman – Executive Director, Vital Signs
Pedro Sanchez – Director of the Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program, Earth Institute, Columbia University (Moderator)
9:00 p.m. dialogueNEXT (video)
José Andrés – Owner & Chef, ThinkFoodGroup
Ellen Gustafson – Founder, 30 Project / Co-Founder, FEED
Michael Deal – Executive Director & CEO, Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance
Molly Mattessich – Manager of Online Initiatives, National Peace Corps Association
Nii Simmonds – Program Director and Co-Founder, The DAIN Network
Pape Samb – President and CEO, Phelps Stokes
Cooper Munroe – Member of the Board, ONE Moms
Tony Thelen – Director of Operations, Intelligent Solutions Group, Deere & Co.
Danielle Nierenberg – Director of the Nourishing the Planet project, Worldwatch Institute
Bian Li – Director of Planning, the World Food Prize Foundation (Moderator)
8:05 a.m. Conversation – Droughts and Drylands: Agriculture’s Role in Confronting Global Water Challenges (Video) (Transcript)
Igal Aisenberg – President & CEO, Netafim
J. Carl Ganter – Co-Founder & Director, Circle of Blue
Roberto Lenton – Executive Director, Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute – University of Nebraska
Aditi Mukherji – Senior Researcher, International Water Management Institute
Margaret Catley-Carlson – Chair, World Economic Forum Advisory Council on Water (Moderator)
9:15 a.m. Plenary Address (Video) (Transcript)
Kendall Powell – Chairman & CEO, General Mills
9:40 a.m. Conversation – Game Change: Innovations Shaping the Future of Green Technology (Video) (Transcript)
Marc Van Montagu – Emeritus Professor, Ghent University
Robert Fraley – Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Monsanto
M.S. Swaminathan – Emeritus Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (Moderator)
10:25 a.m. Plenary Address (Video) (Transcript)
HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein – UN Messenger of Peace & Chairperson of International Humanitarian City
10:45 a.m. Conversation – Working Capital: Leveraging Global Financial Tools for Smallholder Farmers (Video) (Transcript)
Ray Offenheiser – President, Oxfam America
Walter Bell – Chairman, Swiss Re America Holding Corporation
Carolyn Woo – President and CEO, Catholic Relief Services
Jack Sinclair – Executive Vice President of Food, Walmart U.S.
Sano Shimoda – Founder and President, BioScience Securities (Moderator)
1:00 p.m. Keynote Address (Video) (Transcript)
Rajiv Shah – Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
2:05 p.m. Conversation – Partners & Progress: Collaboration across the G8 and Feed the Future Initiatives (Video)
Khalid Bomba – CEO, Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency
Kavita Prakash-Mani – Head of Food Security Agenda, Syngenta International
Helene Gayle – President & CEO, CARE USA
Brady J. Deaton – Chancellor, University of Missouri
3:00 p.m. Plenary Address (Video) (Transcript)
Pierre Ferrari – President & CEO, Heifer International
7:50 a.m. Special Address (Video) (Transcript)
H.E. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
8:20 a.m. Keynote Address (Video) (Transcript)
Ambassador Ertharin Cousin – Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
9:00 a.m. Conversation – Waste Not, Want Not: Solutions for Reducing Post Harvest Loss (Video) (Transcript)
Betty Bugusu – Managing Director, International Food Technology Center, Purdue University
Jeffrey Klein – President & CEO, The Global FoodBanking Network
Rajesh Kumar – Smallholder Farmer, India
Steve Sonka – Director, ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss – University of Illinois (Moderator)
10:00 a.m. Conversation – The Importance of Food Productivity to Meet Tomorrow’s Demand (Video) (Transcript)
Robert Thompson – Visiting Scholar, John Hopkins University
Margaret Zeigler – Executive Director, Global Harvest Initiative
Isidro Ochoa – Farmer & Professor, Zamorano University
Susan Finn – President & CEO, American Council for Fitness and Education
Jeff Simmons – President, Elanco (Moderator)
11:00 a.m. Conversation – Value Added: Integrating Nutrition for Human and Animal Health (Video) (Transcript)
Florence Chenoweth – Minister of Agriculture, Government of Liberia
Mehmood Khan – CEO of the Global Nutrition Group, PepsiCo
Jeff Richardson — Vice President, Global Health Access, Abbott Fund
Jim Gerardot – Executive Director of Global Strategic Marketing, Novus International
Marc Van Ameringen – Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (Moderator)
12:30 p.m. Laureate Address (Video) (Transcript)
Daniel Hillel – 2012 World Food Prize Laureate