FSE's Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium series brings the world's leading policy experts in the fields of food and agricultural development to Stanford to participate in an integrated, twelve-lecture series on pro-poor growth and food security policy. Participants are addressing the major themes of hunger and rural poverty, agricultural productivity, resource and climate constraints on agriculture, and food and agriculture policy. The emphasis of the series is on the implementation of sound policies that will enhance agricultural production, incomes, and resource stewardship. Videos from past lectures can be found below. 

Participants are also writing significant papers that bring together new, relevant thinking about a particular topic area. At the end of the series, a volume of edited papers on international food security and food policy issues will be published. All program products will be freely available on the FSE website. 

Symposium videos (also available for download on Stanford iTunes under FSI and on FSE's YouTube channel FoodSecuritySU):

February 10, 2011 - Improving Food Security in the 21st Century: What are the Roles for Firms and Foundations, Jeff Raikes (CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) and Greg Page (CEO and Chairman, Cargill, Inc)

Raikes/Page video clips (12 min)

April 7, 2011 - Why Has Africa Been Slow in Developing its Agriculture?, Ousmane Badiane, Director for Africa, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

April 27, 2011 - Assisting the Escape from Persistent Ultra-Povert in Rural Africa, Christopher Barrett, Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management, International Professor of Agriculture, Cornell University

May 26, 2011 - Managing Food Price Volatility: Approaches at the global, national, and household levels, Peter Timmer, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Development Studies, Emeritus, Harvard University

October 6, 2011 - African Agricultural R&D and Productivity Growth in a Global Setting, Prabhu Pingali, Deputy Director, Agricultural Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Philip Pardey, Professor of Science and Technology, Applied Economics, University of Minnesota

November 10, 2011 - Food Security is a Global Challenge, Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations

December 8, 2011 - Climate Change and Agricultural Adaptation, David Lobell, Assistant Professor, Environmental Earth System Science, and FSE Center Fellow, Stanford University

January 12, 2012 - Emerging Land Issues in African agriculture: Toward the identification of appropriate rural development strategies, Thom Jayne, Professor of International Development, Michigan State University

April 11, 2012 - Biofuels: The changing nature of agricultural demand, Roz Naylor, Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University

The series is funded by a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

Contact
Ashley Dean