2009–2010
October 26, 2009
“Feeding the World in 2050," Derek Byerlee, former senior agricultural specialist, World Bank (co-director of the Bank’s 2008 World Development Report on agriculture); consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
November 16, 2009
“Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Costs of Adaption," Mark Rosegrant, Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Dec 7, 2009
“US Agriculture Assistance Policy," Connie Veillette, Senior Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
February 22, 2010
"The Browning of Biofuels," C. Ford Runge, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law, University of Minnesota.
March 1, 2010
“Agricultural Science for Africa," Gebisa Ejeta, Distinguished Professor of Agronomy, Purdue University; Recipient, World Food Prize, 2009.
May 17, 2010
“Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know," Robert Paarlberg, Betty F. Johnson Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College; Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
“The Impacts of Democratization in Africa on the Political Voice of the Rural Poor," Steve Block, Associate Professor of International Economics, Fletcher School; Robert Bates, Professor of Government, Harvard University.
2010–2011
September 13, 2010
“Oxfam and Food Security: Long-term Development Versus Emergency Relief," Ray Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America.
October 4, 2010
“The Brazil Mode," John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
Commentator: Judith Tendler, Professor of Political Economy, International Development Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
November 22, 2010
“A new Agro-ecology Approach to Rice Production: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Southeast Asia," Norman Uphoff, Professor of Government and International Agriculture, Cornell University.
April 4, 2011
"Precision Farming and the Sustainability of Modern American Agriculture," Larkin Martin, Former Chair, National Cotton Board; Former Chair, Atlanta Board of Directors of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank; Manager, Martin Farm (a 7000-acrerow-crop farming enterprise in Courtland, Alabama, growing cotton, soybeans, and corn).
May 2, 2011
“African Green Revolution 2.0," Pedro Sanchez, Director, Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program; Director, Millennium Villages Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University; Recipient, World Food Prize, 2002.
2011–2012
September 12, 2011
“Agriculture and Human Health," Rachel Nugent, Deputy Director for Global Health, Center for Global Development (CGD); Chair, Project on Healthy Agriculture, Food, and Non-Communicable Diseases, Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Commentator: Dariush Mozaffarian, Co-director, Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology; Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health.
October 24, 2011
“The Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough," Professor Alberto Alesina, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Nathan Nunn, Professor of Economics, Harvard University.
November 7, 2011
"Drought-Tolerant Maize for African Farmers," Natalie DiNicola, Director of Global Partnership Development, Monsanto Company.
February 13, 2012
“Landscapes for People, Food and Nature," Dr. Sara J. Scherr, President and CEO, EcoAgriculture Partners; Member, UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger; Member, Board of the World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi.
March 5, 2012
"Food on a Finite Planet," Jason Clay, Senior Vice President for Markets, World Wildlife Fund.
April 2, 2012
"Managing Food Price Volatility: Why and How?," Peter Timmer, Non-resident Fellow, Center for Global Development; Former Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Development Studies, Harvard University; Former Dean, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California–San Diego.
2012–2013
October 1, 2012
"Feeding the Future: Reviving United States Support for Agricultural Development," Marshall Bouton, President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
October 23, 2012
"The Link Between High Food Prices and Sociopolitical Unrest," Chris Barrett, Professor of Applied Economics and Professor of Agriculture, Cornell University.
December 3, 2012
"Water for Food," E. Robert Meaney, Senior Vice President, Valmont Industries, Inc.
March 11, 2013
“Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Food Systems," Alicia Harley, Sustainability Science Program Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; Laura Pereira, Sustainability Science Program Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; Laura Diaz Anadon, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Associate Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School.
April 22, 2013
“Tackling Hunger: Leading in a Flat World," Josette Sheeran, Former Head, World Food Program, Rome.
2013–2014
September 23, 2013
“Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability: A Political Economy Analysis," Per Pinstrup-Andersen, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition, and Public Policy, Cornell University; Past Chair, Science Council of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR); Past President, American Agricultural Economic Association; Former Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Recipient, World Food Prize, 2001.
October 28, 2013
“An Update on Agricultural Productivity Gains in Africa," Steven Block, Professor of International Economics, Fletcher School; Robert Bates, Professor of Government, Harvard University.
Discussant: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School.
November 25, 2013
“Peak Farmland and the Prospect for Land Sparing," Jesse Ausubel, Director, Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University; Formerly of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and National Academy of Engineering; Main Organizer, UN World Climate Conference in Geneva, 1979.
February 20, 2014
“Farming and Biodiversity," M. Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International, Rome.
March 4, 2014
“Reducing the Amount of Land Used for Biofuels," Corrado Clini, Chairman, Global BioEnergy Partnership, a G8+5 initiative; Director General for Sustainable Development, Energy and Climate, Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Center for the Environment.
April 7, 2014
“Climate Change, Water, and Food,” René Orellana, former head of the Bolivian delegation to the Conferences of Parties of the UN Conference on Climate Change in 2012 and 2013; former head of the Bolivian delegation to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development Rio +20 in 2012; and former Bolivian Minister of Water and Minister of Environment and Water.
September 22, 2014
“Towards a More Effective Global Architecture for Food and Agriculture,” Dr. Uma Lele, independent scholar; former senior economist at the World Bank; and member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the CGIAR.
October 20, 2014
“The U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative, ‘Feed the Future,’” Rob Bertram, chief scientist for Food Security, United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
October 27, 2014
“The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis,” Ruth DeFries, Denning Professor of Sustainable Development, and professor of ecology, evolution, and environmental biology, Columbia University.
February 27, 2015
“Harvard Research Symposium on the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society.” The symposium, also called the Food+ Symposium, featured twenty Harvard faculty members from eight schools and a dozen departments giving seven-minute "speed presentations" on their current Food+ research. The goal of the Food+ Research Symposium was to provide attendees with a sense of the excitement and breadth of the Food+ research underway at Harvard and foster cross-fertilization among researchers. Please visit the conference website for the full list of speakers and cosponsors.