Speaker:
- Sir Gordon Conway, professor of international development at Imperial College, London and former president of the Rockefeller Foundation (Video | Presentation)
Discussant:
- Mark Rosegrant, division director of environment and production technology at IFPRI (Video | Presentation)
Closing Remarks:
- Shenggen Fan, director general at IFPRI (Video)
Moderator:
- Rajul Pandya-Lorch, chief of staff, Director General’s Office and Head, 2020 Vision Initiative, IFPRI
IFPRI, in collaboration with the USAID Alumni Association, hosted this special event where Sir Gordon Conway emphasized that sustainable intensification offers a practical pathway towards the goal of producing more food while ensuring that the natural resource base, on which agriculture depends, is sustained and improved for future generations.
He explored Sustainable Intensification through three mutually reinforcing pillars – Ecological Intensification, Genetic Intensification, and Socio-Economic Intensification.