World Food Prize: "Breaking New Ground" 2020 Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium

Building Resilience Today for Improved Global Food Systems Tomorrow
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IFPRI is participating in the 2020 Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium

The combined challenges of climate change and a global pandemic magnify the weaknesses in our current global food systems, causing the global food security community to confront the need to feed up to 10 billion people by 2050. Achieving equity, sustainability and improved nutrition in the food systems requires swift evolution in our definitions, research, plans, approaches and practices to build resilience. 

The Dialogue will tackle structural vulnerabilities requiring immediate attention and reform. Resilient food systems equip stakeholders with the capacity to recover from shocks and mitigate the impacts of stressors such as pandemics, climate change, natural resource degradation, volatile markets, conflict, and natural disasters.

    Small-Scale Irrigation, Resilience and Nutrition: Can We Have It All?  (October 13, 2020 -- 8:30am - 9:30am EDT)

    • Claudia Ringler, Deputy Division Director, Environment Technology and Production Division, IFPRI

    CGIAR in Latin America: A strategic innovation lab for global impact (October 14, 2020 -- 8:45am - 9:45am EDT)

    COVID-19 and Developing Country Responses (October 15, 2020 -- 8:00am - 9:00am EDT)

    Food Biofortification: Reaping the Benefits of Science to Overcome Hidden Hunger (October 15, 2020 -- 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT)

    • Howarth Bouis, Founding Director, HarvestPlus Emeritus Fellow, IFPRI