Welcome to the Purdue Center for Global Food Security
In the dawn of the 21st century, we have entered a new era in global food security concerns. The world population has risen to over six billion and is expected to grow to nine billion by the year 2050. Achieving food security for so many people has only become more difficult in recent years due to a combination of interconnected scientific, economic, social, political, and environmental factors. Purdue's Center for Global Food Security (PCGFS) is taking up these challenges, helping to ensure that we have enough food, feed and fuel for the 21st century and beyond.
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Meet Gebisa Ejeta, Center Director
Introducing Purdue's Improved Cowpea Storage technology
PCGFS Goals
Food Security News
Food insecurity a growing problem
November 10, 2011
Patti O'Callaghan, director of social justice at Lafayette Urban Ministry, shares her thoughts about the growing number of U.S. households that are food insecure.
Read Full StoryPurdue Ag Alumni Fish Fry to Feature Howard G. Buffet
September 21, 2011
The 2012 Purdue University Agricultural Alumni Association Fish Fry has been scheduled for Feb. 4 in Indianapolis, with Howard G. Buffett as featured speaker.
Read Full StoryObama appoints Ejeta to agricultural development board
April 17, 2011
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University distinguished professor of agronomy and World Food Prize laureate Gebisa Ejeta has received a presidential appointment to the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development.
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A commentary authored by Gebisa Ejeta and Joachim von Braun. The Next Generation: Confronting the Hunger Challenges of Tomorrow October 12-14, 2011
Gebisa Ejeta moderates the African Presidential Leadership
Roundtable at the 2011 Borlaug Dialogue
Save the date: Informal Institutions and Intractable
Problems Workshop
This international workshop (April 16-17,
2012) will seek new perspectives from the latest research on “informal institutions,”
such as social and ethical norms, in shaping policy design, adoption, and implementation with a focus
on three “intractable” problems in particular that have confounded policy
makers for decades: food security, women’s rights, and climate change. For more information, foodsecurity@purdue.edu
Purdue World Food Prize Laureates
Gebisa Ejeta
The 2009 World Food Prize was awarded to Dr. Ejeta of Ethiopia, whose sorghum hybrids resistant to drought and the devastating Striga weed have dramatically increased the production and availability of one of the world's five principal grains, enhancing the food supply of hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.
Philip E. Nelson 2007 World Food Prize was awarded to Dr. Nelson for his innovative breakthrough technologies which have revolutionized the food industry, particularly in the area of large-scale storage and transportation of fresh fruit and vegetables using bulk aseptic food processing. The aseptic bulk processing and packaging technology pioneered by Nelson can be found in almost every country in the world.
Food Security A journal for the science, sociology and economics of food production and access to food.