Agriculture, Development and Policy Experts Discuss America's Role in Global Food...

Agriculture, Development and Policy Experts Discuss America's Role in Global
Food Security

Symposium will address the findings of a recent Chicago Council on Global
Affairs report on global agricultural development

Senator Dick Durbin to deliver keynote address

Who: Catherine Bertini, Former Executive Director of the UN World Food
Program
Dan Glickman, Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Kenneth Quinn, President, The World Food Prize Foundation
Senator Dick Durbinto deliver keynote address

What: "Meeting the Challenge of Global Agricultural Development and Food
Security: Renewing American Leadership"

When: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Download the full symposium schedule (PDF)

Where: InterContinental Hotel, 505 North Michigan

Leading food and agriculture, development, and policy experts will address
global agricultural development and the U.S. approach toward global food
security at a half-day symposium on April 7, 2009.Those interested in
attending the event should register at thechicagocouncil.org.

U.S. government officials, business leaders, academics, and NGOs have an
opportunity to help restore U.S. standing in the world by leading efforts to
bring agriculture back to the center of U.S. development policy. A revived
U.S. commitment to agricultural development in Africa and South Asia could
help more than 270 million people lift themselves out of poverty by 2020 and
open a path to new and renewed cooperation with the nations of Sub-Saharan
Africa and South Asia.

Catherine Bertini, former executive director of the UN World Food Program, and
Dan Glickman, former U.S. secretary of agriculture, cochairs of the recently
released Chicago Council report Renewing American Leadership in the Fight
Against Global Hunger and Poverty: The Chicago Initiative on Global
Agricultural Development, will open the symposium. Participants will discuss
the report's findings and recommendations for alleviating global hunger and
poverty by increasing productivity, market access, and incomes for small
farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR NEWS MEDIA: Members of the news media must
preregister for this event. Please e-mail Hugh McMullen at hugh@vdcom.com or
call (312) 408-2580 ext 15. Photo identification or press credentials
required.

CONTACT: Hugh McMullen, +1-312-408-2580, ext 15, hugh@vdcom.com, for the
Chicago Council on Global Affairs

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- April 7/

SOURCE Chicago Council on Global Affairs