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    The document announces a lecture and discussion featuring Dr. Hans R. Herren on the topic of the U.S. impact on global food security. Dr. Herren will explore an agricultural agenda that establishes global food security, environmental sustainability and social justice. He is the 1995 World Food Prize Laureate and co-chair of a group that wrote a 2009 report on agriculture. The event will include a response panel and audience discussion. It is free and open to the public on October 12, 2009 at the Polk County Convention Center in Des Moines, Iowa.

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    The Community Food Security Coalition Proudly Presents...

    What Will the World Eat?


    U.S. Impact on Global Food Security
    Reception with Lecture and Discussion featuring the Monday, October 12, 2009

    Polk County Convention Center,


    1995 World Food Prize Laureate Dr. Hans R. Herren Des Moines

    Room 204
    With more than 7,000 plants available for food, 60 percent of the global diet is
    5:45 pm Reception
    derived from corn, wheat and rice. Farm organizations and food industries often
    claim that advances in biotechnology of these crops are required to meet growing 6:15 pm Lecture and Discussion

    demands on the food supply - but at what cost? Join 1995 World Food Prize This event is free and open to the
    Laureate Dr. Hans Herren as he explores an agricultural agenda that establishes public. Appetizers and a cash bar will
    be available. This event is sponsored
    global food security, environmental sustainability and social justice. Dr. Herren is the by the Food & Society Fellows Program
    President of the Millennium Institute and is the co-chair of the International at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade
    Assessment of Agriculture Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development Policy and the Worldwatch Institute.

    work group which wrote the 2009 report “Agriculture at a Crossroads.” An For more information contact
    Angie Tagtow at 515.367.5200 or
    esteemed panel will respond to Dr. Herren followed by dialog with the audience.
    angie.tagtow@mac.com.

    Dr. Hans R. Herren, an internationally recognized scientist, is the President of the Millennium Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Prior
    to joining MI, he was director-general of the International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi, Kenya. He
    also served as director of the Africa Biological Control Center of International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), in Benin. At
    ICIPE, Hans developed and implemented programs in the area of human, animal, plant and environmental health (the 4-H
    paradigm) as they relate to insect issues. At IITA, he conceived and implemented the highly successful biological control
    program that saved the African cassava crop, and averted Africa’s worst-ever food crisis. Hans earned his Ph.D. at the Federal
    Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and holds numerous awards that recognize his distinguished and continuing
    achievements in original research. Over the years, Hans has moved his interests toward integrated sustainable development, in
    particular, linking environmental, plant, animal, and human health issues. Hans serves on the boards of numerous organizations,
    including co-chairing the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science & Technology; chairman of BioVision, a
    Swiss foundation with a global mandate to alleviate poverty and improve the livelihoods of poor people while maintaining the
    precious natural resource base that sustains life; member of the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research
    Science Council; past president of the International Association of the Plant Protection Sciences; and former member of the US
    Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

    This event is part of the Community Food Security


    Coalition’s 13th Annual Conference, October 10-13,
    2009 at the Polk County Convention Center. For more
    information and to register for this conference go to
    www.communityfoodconference.org.

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