Daniels keynote speaker at Global Food Security Symposium

April 17, 2015  


Mitch Daniels

President Mitch Daniels was a featured speaker at the annual Global Food Security Symposium in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. (Photo provided)
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President Mitch Daniels was a featured speaker at the annual Global Food Security Symposium in Washington, D.C., on Thursday (April 16).

The symposium has been convened annually by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs since 2010 to identify opportunities for U.S. leadership in alleviating hunger and poverty through agricultural development.

Daniels, who gave the keynote address during the luncheon, discussed his experience chairing the Council of Foreign Relations task force on non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries and will discuss the role of American land-grant universities in feeding the world. Video of Daniels' address is available here.

Daniels has a blog posting on the symposium's website on the topic of the many ways in which Purdue is engaged in the effort to reduce global hunger. The website is at http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/event/healthy-food-healthy-world-leveraging-agriculture-and-food-improve-global-nutrition. Tweets from the event can be found on Twitter at the hashtag #GlobalAg.

The Purdue Center for Global Security is among the symposium partners. Gebisa Ejeta, director of the center and 2009 World Food Prize laureate, is a member of a Chicago Council task force that conducted a study urging agriculture and the food system to play greater roles in promoting health and nutrition worldwide. The study will be released during the event.

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