Global Farmer Town Hall Meeting on Sustainable Agriculture and Biodiversity Practices

 
12 Oct 2010
 
10:00 AM
 
Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall

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Join farmers from around the globe to discuss sustainable agriculture practices and their role in biodiversity preservation. The panel will feature farmers from Asia and North and South America discussing what they do daily to preserve the environment. Experts, including Iowa State Seed Science Endowed Chair Gary Munkvold and International Food Policy Research Institute program director Judy Chambers, will address how these practices benefit our world. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will offer opening remarks and participate in the discussion. Orion Samuelson, host of National Farm Report will moderate. The event is part of the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity and is being held in conjunction with the World Food Prize celebration.

This town hall meeting will be broadcast via the Internet to students around the world, and the panel will take questions live via Twitter, e-mail, Facebook, and two-way video.

[b]Panelists: Rajesh Kumar[/b], vegetable farmer, Tamil Nadu, India [b]Camila Illich[/b], crop and tree farmer, Guarapuava, Brazil [b]Pam Johnson[/b], corn and soybean farmer, central Iowa, United States [b]Gary Munkvold[/b], Seed Science Endowed Chair, Chair of the Graduate Program in Seed Technology and Business, Iowa State University [b]Judy Chambers[/b], Director of the Program for Biosafety Systems in the Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Senior Advisor to USAID [b]Orion Samuelson[/b] (moderator), host of [i]National Farm Report, Samuelson Sez[/i], and [i]This Week in Agribusiness[/i] Watch the live webcast at [url=http://www.BiodiversityWorldTour.com]www.BiodiversityWorldTour.com[/url] or on Twitter @CropLifeIntl and @CropLifeFdn or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/CropNews. To learn how to submit a question for the panel please visit [url=http://www.biodiversityworldtour.com/ISU]www.biodiversityworldtour.com/ISU[/url]. Free online registration is encouraged but not required at: [url=http://ISUTownHall.Eventbrite.com]http://ISUTownHall.eventbrite.com[/url] Questions about registration questions should be directed to arinkus@croplifefoundation.org. For more information or general questions, contact Seed Science Center Director Manjit Misra at mkmisra@iastate.edu.