The 2019 Borlaug CAST Communication Award Breakfast
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The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) and CropLife Foundation invite you to honor the 2019 Borlaug CAST Communication Award winner on the occasion of the 2019 Borlaug Dialogue hosted by the World Food Prize Foundation.
Frank Mitloehner, Ph.D., Professor and Air Quality Extension Specialist, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis will speak on Feeding the World Without Wasting It. The award presentation will be followed by a panel discussion on Filtering Fiction from Fact: The Future State of Science Communication featuring a panel of Borlaug CAST Communication Award winners on the 10-year anniversary of the award.
Agenda:
7:00 - 7:30 a.m. Complimentary Breakfast sponsored by CropLife Foundation
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Borlaug CAST Communication Award Program
Winner's Remarks: Dr. Frank Mitloehner
Feeding the World Without Wasting It
Throughout our lifetime, human population on planet Earth will have tripled, often referred to as the “2050 Challenge”. The obvious question becomes how to drastically produce more food with constant inputs. In much of the developed world, agricultural productivity has been tripled over the last 50 years, an achievement that we now must repeat globally to feed the world without devouring its natural resources. Indeed, a new ‘green revolution’ might be needed for much of Asia and Africa, much like the one that was initiated by the scientist, who the present CAST award was named after: Dr. Norman Borlaug.
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Filtering Fiction from Fact: The Future State of Science Communication
Presentation and panel discussion on the topic of the current state and future role of science communication in food and agriculture with a panel of Borlaug CAST Communication Award winners on the 10-year anniversary of the award.
Speakers:
Julie Borlaug Larson
Vice President of Communications and Public Relations
INARI Agriculture, A Flagship Pioneering Company
Moderator
Panel:
Catherine Bertini
Distinguished Fellow
Chicago Council on Global Affairs and World Food Prize Laureate 2003 (2011 BCCA Winner)
Frank Mitloehner
Professor and Air Quality Extension Specialist
Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis (2019 BCCA Winner)
Channapatna Prakash
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Tuskegee University (2015 BCCA Winner)
Carl Winter
Cooperative Extension Specialist Emeritus
University of California--Davis (2012 BCCA Winner)
Marty Matlock
Executive Director
UA Resiliency Center and Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Arkansas (2018 BCCA Winner)
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