Diverse thought-leaders highlight symposium
A diverse group of thought-leaders attended the Global Harvest Initiative's symposium on Tuesday, as we launched an effort to sustainably double global agricultural output by 2050. Senator Richard Lugar's keynote addressset a collaborative tone which continued throughout the day-long event.
It was an impressive group, folks. Conservation, agriculture and food security experts from public and private organizations listed below, began sharing ideas about how to close the agricultural productivity gap - the difference between the current pace of output expansion and the far more rapid pace required to meet the world's future needs.
Thanks to everyone who participated.
Acorn Ridge Associates
Agriculture Cooperative Development International
Alliance to End Hunger
American Farm Bureau Federation
American Farmland Trust
American Soybean Association
Archer Daniels Midland Company
Bayer CropScience
Biotechnology Industry Organization
Bread for the World
Bunge North America
Care & Relief Everywhere
Cargill
Catholic Charities
Center for Strategic Int Studies, Johns Hopkins
Chicago Council for Global Affairs
Con Agra Foods Inc.
Congressional Hunger Center
Conservation International
Cotton Incorporated
CropLife America
CropLife International
DuPont
Embassy of Cape Verde to the U.S.
Environmental Defense Fund
Eversol Associates
Farm Foundation
Fintrac, Inc.
Food & Agriculture Organization
Friends of the World Food Program
Gates Foundation
General Mills, Inc.
Global Crop Diversity Trust
Global Harvest Initiative
Global Insights
Ice Miller LLP
Informa Economics
Initiative for Global Development
International Conservation Caucus Foundation
International Fund for Agricultural Development
International Life Sciences Institute
International Policy for Food and Agricultural Trade
John Deere
Johns Hopkins University
Kellogg Company
Land O'Lakes
Meridian Institute
Monsanto Company
National Association of Wheat Growers
National Biodiesel Board
National Corn Growers Association
National Farmers Union
National FFA
Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
Pioneer
Russell & Barron
Sasakawa Africa Association
Save the Children
Sure Harvest
Swift and Company
Syngenta
Syracuse University
The Fertilizer Institute
The Nature Conservancy
The World Bank
Truth About Trade and Technology
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Grains Council
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
USA Rice Federation
United Soybean Board
University of California at Davis
University of Illinois
Webster Communications
World Food Prize
World Food Program
Wild Foundation
World Vision
World Wildlife Fund
Worldwatch Institute