Scaling Up Impact in Agriculture
10/18/2018 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Davenport Room, 3rd Floor | Des Moines Marriott Downtown
Suzanne Nielsen & Julie Howard
Many promising agricultural technologies have been developed that could impact millions of lives if taken to scale. Why aren't these technologies reaching more farmers? Join us for a discussion of scaling up impact in agriculture: what have we learned about approaches that work, key challenges, and the way forward. This event will follow a major Scale Up Conference at Purdue University in late September 2018. Lead speakers will discuss key findings from the conference and a panel discussion will feature select case studies in scaling that were presented at the conference. Speakers will include:
- Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank, 2017 World Food Prize Laureate
- Robert Bertram, Chief Scientist, Bureau for Food Security, USAID
- Jennifer Billings, Agriculture Development Leader, Corteva Agriscience™
- Betty Bugusu, Director, FTF Food Processing Innovation Laboratory, Purdue University
- Larry Cooley, President Emeritus, Management Systems International; Curator of Global Community of Practice on Scaling Up Development Outcomes
- Julie Howard, Non-resident Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Suzanne Nielsen, Professor; Co-organizer of Scale Up Conference, Purdue University
- Simon Winter, Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
- Carolyn Woo, former President & CEO of Catholic Relief Services; Co-organizer of Scale Up Conference, Purdue University
Hosted by: Michigan State University and Purdue University