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MillerComm Lecture Series

Food Security and Poverty Eradication as a National Security Goal for the United States

Thursday, September 5th, 2002
Per Pinstrup-Andersen
4:00 pm

Room 149, National Soybean Laboratory
1101 West Peabody Drive
Urbana

Event Description

Global food security, pacifier of families and chronic malnutrition, confronts global politics: war, international trade, greed.  Can global food security become a reality?

Per Pinstrup-Andersen, 2001 World Food Prize Laureate, explores the links between economic inequities, international instability, terrorism, and other issues common in developing countries such as poverty, hunger, and hopelessness.

Hosted by: ACES Global Connect, International Activities Policy Committee, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Office of Research

In conjunction with: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Commerce and Business Administration, College of Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Animal Biology, Department of Animal Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of Crop Sciences, Department of Economics, Department of Entomology, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Department of Geography, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, European Union Center, Environmental Council, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, Office of International Programs and Studies, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program

Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC