10th Anniversary Celebration: The African Green Revolution Moves Forward

Date: Monday, October 10th, 2011

Start: 8:00 pm

Location: Great Hall, ISU Memorial Union, Ames, Iowa

Contact: Iowa State University Lectures Program, (515) 294-9934, lectures@iastate.edu

This is the 10th anniversary of the Norman Borlaug Lecture Series, held annually in conjunction with the World Food Prize Symposium and honors Norman Borlaug, the agronomist and Iowa native whose discoveries sparked the Green Revolution.

This year's lecture will be delivered by Pedro Sanchez, World Food Prize Laureate and co-leader of the UN Millennium Project’s Task Force on Hunger.

A reception and student poster display will precede the lecture from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Oak Room, Memorial Union. Posters will address world food issues and are submitted by undergraduate and graduate students. The competition is funded by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Human Sciences, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Pedro Sanchez was awarded the World Food Prize in 2002 for his pioneering use of agroforestry to restore fertility to some of the world’s poorest and most degraded soils. The MacArthur Foundation subsequently recognized his work with a Genius Award in 2003. Sanchez is Director of Tropical Agriculture at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and is an international leader in the fight against hunger, having co-led the United Nation’s Millennium Project’s Task Force on Hunger. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia, he was for many years director general of the Kenya-based International Center for Research in Agroforestry. A native of Cuba, Sanchez completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees in agronomy and soil science at Cornell University.

Cosponsored by the Nutritional Sciences Council, Plant Sciences Institute, Live Green! Sustainability Series, World Affairs Series, and the Committee on Lectures, funded by the Government of the Student Body

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