Changing Course in Global Agriculture

Speaker:

Hans Herren

07 Apr 2013

7:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Hans Herren is president of the Millennium Institute, an international NGO that facilitates sustainable development. An internationally recognized scientist and World Food Prize recipient, Herren has developed programs in the area of human, animal, plant and environmental health as they relate to insect issues. They include the highly successful biological control program that saved the African cassava crop and averted Africa's worst-ever food crisis. Over the years, Herren's interests shifted toward integrated sustainable development, in particular, linking environmental, plant, animal, and human health issues. Herren points to three major challenges in food systems: finding solutions to sustainable productivity, feeding a growing global population, and rising food prices. 2013 Shivvers Memorial Lecture.

From 2004 to 2008 Hans Herren co-chaired the International Assessment of Agricultural science and Technology for Development (IAASTD). Prior to joining the Millennium Institute, 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 the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), in Benin.