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"Linking Agriculture, Nutrition and Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Development"
If we are to reach Millennium Development Goal #1, Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger, agricultural development professionals will need to work in new ways, across disciplines, with many others who can contribute to this goal. This meeting will be dedicated to examining critical agriculture-nutrition-health collaboration necessary to more quickly reach the goal of eradicating hunger. |
Sunday, June 6 |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Executive Board Meeting
Room of the Secretary/Treasurer, Holiday Inn Capitol |
| 6:30 p.m. |
Sunday Evening Reception
Discovery Room |
Monday, June 7 |
| 7:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast
Discovery Room |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Program Overview
Chris Pannkuk, Washington State University, AIARD President, 20092010
Rob Nooter, Social Enterprise Management Services, LLC, AIARD President Elect |
| 8:45 a.m. |
Panel I: The Challenge of Integrating Health and Agricultural Policies and Programs to Improve Nutrition
Presiding: Ryan Moore, USDA-ARS, AIARD Membership Committee Co-Chair
Agricultural Development, Health and Nutrition: Critical Partners or Weak Allies?
Jerry Combs, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Health Programs and Policies and the Role of Nutrition
Keith West, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Challenges for Health, Nutrition and Agricultural Policy Integration
Susan Bradley, Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Bureau, USAID |
| 10:10 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Panel I (continued)
USAID's Strategy for Integrating Agriculture, Health and Nutrition
Laura Birx, Global Health Bureau, USAID
Field-Based Innovations at USAID: "The Gender Informed Nutrition and Agriculture Alliance: Successes, Challenges and The Way Forward
Cheryl Jackson-Lewis, Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade Bureau, USAID |
| 11:30 a.m. |
AIARD Future Leaders Forum: Introduction of Participants
Mike McWhorter, Texas A&M University, AIARD Director and Past President |
| Noon |
Lunch
Presentation of AIARD's Special Service Award to Senator Richard Lugar
Chris Pannkuk, AIARD President, Presiding
Luncheon Presentation: Research to Implementation: Linking Agriculture and Nutrition for Child Health and Development
Montague Demment, University of California, Davis, Former AIARD President
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| 1:30 p.m. |
Panel II: Agriculture, Environment and Human Health: Issues and recommendations for Integration
Presiding: Bill Guyton, World Cocoa Foundation and AIARD Director
Agricultural Development, Water Quality, and Human Health
Michael O'Neill, USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Soil Health in Developing Countries: Impacts on Crops and on Human Nutrition
Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Rural Futures — Whatever Happened to Development?
Owen Cylke, World Wildlife Fund |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Panel III: Connecting Agriculture, Food Safety and Health
Presiding: Richard Tracy, Global Cold Chain Alliance, AIARD Director
Postharvest Technology: A Critical Route to Improved Food Safety and Health
Symantha Holben, World Food Logistics Organization
Food Safety: Aflatoxin and Gender-Related Constraints in Peanut Production
Maria Elisa Christie, Virginia Tech
Strengthening Seafood Sanitation and Handling Practices and Protecting Health: Prevention not Detention
Michael Jahncke, Virginia Cooperative Extension |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Adjourn |
| 5:45 p.m. |
President's Reception |
| 6:30 p.m. |
Dinner
Chris Pannkuk, Washington State University, AIARD President, Presiding |
| 7:30 p.m. |
AIARD Awards Presentation: Recognizing Excellence and Career Achievements
Albert Ayeni, Rutgers University, Awards Committee Chair, Presiding |
| 8:00 p.m. |
Adjourn |
Tuesday, June 8 |
| 7:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast
Discovery Room |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Session IV: Relevance of AIARD's 2002 Assessment: "The Agriculture, Nutrition, and HIV/AIDS Connections in Developing Countries"
Reed Hertford, EAM Company, Former AIARD President and Director |
| 9:15 a.m. |
So What? Roundtable Interactions about Implications and Actions
Moderators:
Hiram Larew, AIARD Past President
Stephanie Curs, Texas A&M University, AIARD Communications Chair
Amanda Crump, University of California Davis, AIARD Secretary/Treasurer
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| 10:45 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 11:05 a.m. |
Report and Action Items from Discussion Groups |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Reflections on the AIARD Conference
Future Leaders Forum Participants |
| 11:45 a.m. |
46th Annual Meeting Program Wrap Up: Observations and Comments
Handy Williamson, University of Missouri, AIARD President Elect, 2010-2011 |
| Noon |
Adjourn Program Meeting
Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. |
AIARD Annual Business Meeting
Chris Pannkuk, Washington State University, AIARD President, 2009- 2010, presiding |
| 1:45 p.m. |
Adjourn |
Wednesday, June 9 |
| 7:30 a.m. |
Future Leaders Forum Participants Visit Washington, DC Offices |
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