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USDA’s 2012 Ag Outlook Forum

Date: February 23-24, 2012
Location: Arlington, VA

Twenty-five breakout sessions with more than 80 speakers will focus on a broad range of topical issues related to agriculture and global food security; foreign trade, financial markets, and economic development; conservation; energy; climate change; food safety; food hubs; and Cooperative Extension and beginning farmers.

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Jobs, Food & Farming
Date: March 19-21, 2012
Location: Accra, Ghana

The conference will critically examine, from both research and policy perspectives: 1) Dominant and alternative framings and narratives, and recent empirical data, relating to how young people engage with the agri-food sector in Africa; 2) The dynamics of change in different components of the agri-food sector and the implications of these dynamics for young people; 3) The implications for young people of alternative policy approaches to the development of the agri-food sector.

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2012 National Policy Conference
Date: May 16, 2012
Location: Washington, D.C.

CropLife America’s 3rd Annual National Policy Conference will bring together leading experts, academics and politicos to engage in a debate on the development of 2012 Farm Bill. How does Congress design a Farm Bill that addresses human, social, economic, research and environmental needs while taking into account farmers, consumers and the natural systems that give us the food and fiber we need to live?

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