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October 7, 2009 5:33 PM

Winners Named in Farm Foundation Competition

The Farm Foundation announced yesterday the winners of its 30-Year Challenge Policy Competition. The competition challenged participants to submit entries focusing on innovative ways to meet the agriculture and food system challenges outlined in the Foundation's 2008 report. The top entry in the competition was written by chief economist of Informa Economics, William Motes. In his paper, Dr. Motes addressed global agricultural resource allocation policies over the past three decades and outlined critical principles in which he feels policy development must focus.
Topics covered by the other six winners included global food security, global energy security, climate change, competition for natural resources and global economic development. The Global Harvest Initiative supports the Farm Foundation and I commend them for bringing together forward thinkers to help spark dialogue and debate around the agricultural challenges we face and to try to come up with innovative solutions to this problem. It is encouraging to see more forums like these that recognize that the time is now to bring about change. Let's continue to work together to lead the way.
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