The World Food Prize
Confronting Crisis
WFP/Heather Hill
Agriculture and Global Development: The Next Fifty Years
The Borlaug Dialogue October 15 - 17, 2008 • Des Moines, Iowa
The World Food Prize 2 0 0 8 L a ur e at e s
Hon. Robert Dole
Hon. George McGovern
The presentation of the $250,000 “Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture” will be held Thursday, October 16 at 7 pm at the Iowa State Capitol and broadcast LIVE on Iowa Public Television
WFP/Tom Haskell
Former Senators George McGovern and Robert Dole have been selected to receive the 2008 World Food Prize for their inspired, collaborative leadership that has encouraged a global commitment to school feeding and enhanced school attendance and nutrition for millions of the world’s poorest children, especially girls. The McGovern-Dole international schoolfeeding program was established by the United States in 2000. Since then, it has provided meals to feed more than 22 million children in 41 countries and boosted school attendance by an estimated 14 percent overall and by 17 percent for girls. The success of the McGovernDole program has also led to dramatically increased international support for expansion of school-feeding operations in developing countries around the world.
The 2008 “Borlaug Dialogue” October 15 - 17, Downtown Marriott Hotel, Des Moines
Schedule of Events Wednesday, October 15 8 am - 12 pm
Thursday, October 16
1 pm - 5 pm
Borlaug Dialogue Opening Ceremony and Sessions
Evening
Laureates Forum featuring 2008 World Food Prize recipients Bob Dole and George McGovern
8 am - 4:30 pm Borlaug Dialogue Presentations and Conversations 7 pm
Friday, October 17
Side events hosted by USDA and the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
The 2008 World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony at the Iowa State Capitol
7:30 am - 5 pm Borlaug Dialogue Presentations and Conversations
World Food Prize Founder Dr. Norman E. Borlaug
Rising Food Prices • A Green Revolution in Africa • Gender Equity • Trade Reform & E
Confronting Crisis
Sylvia M. Burwell
H.E. Joaquim Chissano
Robert Hormats
President of Global Development The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Former President Mozambique
Vice Chair Goldman Sachs
Judith Rodin
Josette Sheeran
Robert Zoellick
President The Rockefeller Foundation
Executive Director The World Food Program
President The World Bank
An African Green Revolution
Sir Gordon Conway
H.E. Daphrose Gahakwa
Monty Jones
Chief Scientific Advisor UK Dept. for Intl. Development
Minister of Education Rwanda
Executive Director, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
Namanga Ngongi
Pedro Sanchez
Speciosa Wandira
President Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Co-Chair, UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger
Former Vice President Uganda
Economic Growth • Climate Change & Biodiversity Loss • Urbanization & Development
Biodiversity & Agricultural Security
Margaret Catley-Carlson
Cary Fowler
Emile Frison
Chair Global Water Partnership
Executive Director The Global Crop Diversity Trust
Director-General Bioversity International
Rosamond Naylor
Ed Rege
Ravi Singh
Director, Program on Food Security & the Environment, Stanford University
Director of Biotechnology ILRI
Distinguished Scientist CIMMYT
Donald Kaberuka
Scott Kilman
Raul Montemayor
President African Development Bank
Senior Writer The Wall Street Journal
Vice-President Intl. Federation of Agricultural Producers
Rajul Pandya-Lorch
Roger Thurow
Carlo Trojan
Chair, Vision 2020 Initiative IFPRI
Senior Writer The Wall Street Journal
Chairman, International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC)
Rising Food Prices
The Role of the Private Sector • Science & Technology • Rising Food Prices • A Green
Global Cooperation in Research
M. Peter McPherson
Olive Mugenda
Ren Wang
José Zaglul
President NASULGC
Vice-Chancellor Kenyatta University
Director CGIAR
President EARTH University
The Role of the Private Sector
Investment in Development
Carl Hausmann
Robert Lane
Catherine Bertini
Rajiv Shah
CEO Bunge North America
Chairman and CEO John Deere
Senior Fellow, Ag Development The Gates Foundation
Director, Ag Development The Gates Foundation
Trade and Economic Growth
Kym Anderson
Pedro de Camargo Neto
Robert Thompson
George Gollin Professor of Economics University of Adelaide
Former Minister of Agriculture, Brazil IPC Member
Professor, University of Illinois IPC Member
n Revolution in Africa • Gender Equity • Trade & Economic Growth • Climate Change
The Borlaug Dialogue 666 Grand Ave, Suite 1700 Des Moines, IA 50309 USA Ph: 515-245-3783 • Fax: 515-245-3785 Email: wfp@worldfoodprize.org
FOUNDATION John Ruan, Chairman Emeritus John Ruan III, Chairman Amb. Kenneth M. Quinn, President COUNCIL OF ADVISORS H.E. Corazon C. Aquino Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Hon. George Bush Hon. Jimmy Carter H.E. Joaquim Chissano Margaret Catley-Carlson Chair, The Global Water Partnership Dr. Zhangliang Chen Vice-Governor, Guangxi Province, China A.S. Clausi Past President, Institute of Food Technologists Sir Gordon Conway UK Dept. for Intl. Development Michael G. Gartner Pulitzer Prize Winner Dr. Gregory L. Geoffroy President, Iowa State University Hon. M. Peter McPherson President, NASULGC Cynthia H. Milligan Dean, College of Business Administration University of Nebraska H.E. Roberto Rodrigues Former Minister of Agriculture, Brazil
On behalf of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, I extend a warm welcome for you to join us October 15-17 for our International Symposium at the Downtown Des Moines Marriott and our Laureate Award Ceremony at the magnificent Iowa State Capitol. Please plan to arrive by mid-day Wednesday, October 15, as our conference has been extended to three days. Register now to ensure you will have a place for what promises to be a dynamic series of “conversations” about the most pressing issues the world will face in terms of agriculture and development in the coming 50 years. We are extremely grateful to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for its collaboration and support in shaping the focus of this conference, which will attract leading scientists, officials and leaders from over 60 countries to participate. We are also pleased that the generous support of the Mathile Institute has facilitated an increased national expansion of our Global Youth Institute for high school students. This is my tenth year of association with the World Food Prize. Over that decade, it has been our goal to build our annual symposium into a “Davos” of global food security, drawing the most influential individuals from around the globe for an annual “conversation” on feeding the world. To that end, we have shaped this conference - now known as the “Borlaug Dialogue” - to focus on the most cutting edge issues in food and agriculture, with the participants inspired by our founder’s historic achievements as the “Father of the Green Revolution.” To fulfill that goal, the World Food Prize Foundation is also undertaking a $29.8 million restoration of the century-old Des Moines Public Library (pictured above) as the Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Hall of Laureates. This historic edifice will be the new home of the Borlaug Dialogue beginning in 2010, honoring the “man who has saved more lives than any other person who ever lived.”
Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn, President
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