The Global Agricultural Crisis of the 21st Century

Sir Gordon Conway, agricultural ecologist, was one of the first to define the concept of sustainable agriculture. He pioneered integrated pest management in Borneo (Malaysia) in the 1960s and developed agroecosystems analysis in Thailand. As president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1998 to 2005, he worked to increase that organizations attention to ecological and food security issues, particularly the promise and challenges presented by biotechnology in the context of world hunger. Sir Gordon Conway was Professor of Environmental Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London and directed the Sustainable Agriculture Program of the International Institute for Environment and Development in London before becoming a representative of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi from 1988 to 1992. Among his publications are: Unwelcome Harvest: Agriculture and Pollution, The Doubly Green Revolution: Food For All in the 21st Century and Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. The 2008 Norman Borlaug Lecture

Prior to the Lecture, there will be a reception and student poster display from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Oak Room of the Memorial Union.