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Transforming Global Food Security

May 11, 2016 • 2:00 – 5:00 pm EDT

Preventing Famine through Improved Technological Innovation

Join the CSIS Global Food Security Project and international development community thought leaders to explore how recent technological advances can help to create a more food-secure world.   

Food scarcity and fragility both lead to and are complicated by political, economic, and social crises. Such destabilizing outcomes highlight the need to leverage improvements in real-time diagnostics to shape food security response strategies and policies. Innovative technologies can dramatically accelerate the impact of global food security programs in times of both stress and prosperity by providing accurate risk assessments to build a more resilient future. Global and local actors can collaborate to act with greater precision, speed, and efficiency to mitigate the loss of lives and livelihoods before food security crises escalate.  
 
CSIS is bringing together big thinkers in data analytics and emerging ICT applications, including government representatives and experienced food security program implementors, to chart a way forward using improved technologies. The event will explore how emerging technology applications and approaches can be better utilized for both agricultural development and humanitarian efforts.
 
We hope you will join us for this strategic and timely discussion of how technological innovation can advance policy and practice to help solve food security challenges.
 
 
Opening remarks by:
Kimberly Flowers
Director, Global Food Security Project, CSIS

Opening keynote remarks by:
Andrew Natsios
former Administrator, USAID,
Director, Scowcroft Institute and Professor, Texas A&M University
 
The first panel discussion will feature:
Robert Tetrault
Deputy Director, Office of Global Analysis,
U.S. Department of Agriculture  
 
Ben Watkins
Chief Executive Officer, Kimetrica
 
John Corbett
Founder and CEO, aWhere
 
Moderated by:
Wayan Vota
Senior Mobile Advisor, FHI 360
 

The second panel discussion will feature:
Chris Burns
Senior Coordinator, Digital Development for Feed the Future, U.S. Global Development Lab, USAID 
 
Deirdre McGrenra
Chief, Americas Liaison Office,
International Fund for Agricultural Development
 

Margaret Roche
Geospatial Analyst, Geospatial Capabilities Advancement
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Moderated by:
Sarah Tisch
Director, Food Security & Monitoring and Evaluation,
Crown Agents USA
 
 
With closing keynote remarks by:
Shenggen Fan
Director General
International Food Policy Research Institute
 
 
Please join us after the conference for an informal reception.
 
This event is made possible through the generous support of Crown Agents USA, FHI 360, and Kimetrica.
 
 

 

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Kimberly Flowers
Senior Associate (Non-resident), Humanitarian Agenda and Global Food and Water Security Program