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College of Agricultural & Life Sciences

Physical Address:
E. J. Iddings Agricultural Science Laboratory, Room 52
606 S Rayburn St

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 2331
Moscow, ID 83844-2331

Phone: 208-885-6681

Fax: 208-885-6654

Email: ag@uidaho.edu

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The CALS Speaker Series aims to bring in distinguished guest speakers to provide our community with insightful perspectives on a variety of topics. All presentations are free and open to the public.

Johan Swinnen
Johan Swinnen

Global Food Security in CCC (Conflict, Climate, COVID) Times

Monday, April 24
3:15-4:30 p.m.

Ag Science, Room 106

Free and open to the public

Johan Swinnen is director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and managing director, systems transformation, CGIAR.

Global progress against hunger and malnutrition has reversed, and food systems continue to put pressure on our planetary boundaries. Food and nutrition security vulnerabilities and environmental challenges have been exacerbated by the three C’s: Climate Change, COVID-19 and Conflict. In his presentation, Johan Swinnen will discuss the unequal impacts of climate change, the global pandemic and the food and fertilizer crisis, worsened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on regions, countries and segments of the population. While high prices have come down from their peak, they remain at historically high levels, and price shocks may be the new normal. This presentation will draw from IFPRI’s latest research to identify policy and technical innovations that can achieve resilient, sustainable and inclusive food systems.

Swinnen is a member of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, USAID; Commissioner in the Food Systems Economics Commission; Co-Chair of the Think20 (T20) Task Force on Climate Change, Sustainable Energy and Environment; a member of the Champions 12.3 Leadership Group to Reduce Food Loss and Waste (SDG Target 12.3); and of the Africa Europe Strategic Task Force on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems. Prior to joining IFPRI, Swinnen was professor of economics and director of the LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at KU Leuven and senior research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. He was a lead economist at the World Bank from 2003-04 and economic adviser to the European Commission from 1998-2001.

He earned a doctorate from Cornell University and holds honorary doctorates at the University of Göttingen and the Slovak University of Agriculture. He is a fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association and the European Association of Agricultural Economists. He was president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists from 2012-15.

Sponsored in part by the Ole Swenson Foundation.

Igniting Agricultural Innovation

CALS Speaker Series: Scott Hutchins

Educating Different Kinds of Minds

CALS Speaker Series: Temple Grandin

Food Evolution — Keynote

CALS Speaker Series: Alison Van Eenennaam

Food Evolution — Q&A session

CALS Speaker Series: Alison Van Eenennaam and Shelley McGuire

Innovations for 21st Century Food Systems

CALS Speaker Series: Sonny Ramaswamy

What’s For Dinner? A Guide to Understanding GMOs

CALS Speaker Series: Cara Santa Maria

Elevating the Discussion of Genetically Engineered Crops

CALS Speaker Series: Fred Gould

Past speakers

  • Scott Hutchins, USDA deputy under secretary for research, education and economics
    Topic: Igniting Agricultural Innovation
  • Tom Tomich, founding director of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at the University of California, Davis
    Topic: Global Food Security and Sustainability: Food system disruptors and opportunities
  • Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum
    Topic: Out of Many, One: A Defining Moment for American Immigration
  • Temple Grandin, professor of animal science at Colorado State University and autism spokesperson
    Topic: Educating Different Kinds of Minds
  • Cliff Ohmart, retired senior scientist with SureHarvest
  • Alison Van Eenennaam, USDA NRSP-8 Cattle Genome Coordinator
    Shelley McGuire, director, Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences
    Topic: Food Evolution
  • Randy Olson, a scientist-turned-filmmaker
    Topic: ABT Framework: The Communications Tool Science Has Been Needing
  • Cathy Kling, Charles F. Curtis Distinguished Professor of economics at Iowa State University
    Topic: Improving Water Quality: Are Economics and the Environment Always at Odds?
  • Sonny Ramaswamy, director, National Institute of Food and Agriculture
    Topic: Innovations for 21st Century Food Systems
  • Cara L. Santa Maria, M.S., science communicator and journalist
    Fred Gould, Distinguished University Professor, North Carolina State University
    Topic: What’s for Dinner? A Guide to Understanding GMOs

Contact

College of Agricultural & Life Sciences

Physical Address:
E. J. Iddings Agricultural Science Laboratory, Room 52
606 S Rayburn St

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 2331
Moscow, ID 83844-2331

Phone: 208-885-6681

Fax: 208-885-6654

Email: ag@uidaho.edu

Location