Agriculture News

June 3, 2016

USAID representative to discuss global food security challenges in Monday address

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Margot Ellis, deputy assistant to the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, will discuss the importance of U.S. government strategies and university research in tackling global food security challenges on Monday (June 6) at Purdue University.

Ellis's talk, "Feed the Future: Meeting the Challenges of Global Food Security," is the keynote address of the Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security.

The address is at 9:00 AM in Room 121 of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and is open to the public.

Ellis will discuss how the government's Feed the Future initiative builds upon the yield-boosting successes of the Green Revolution and supports U.S. policies in improving the world's food security. She will also talk about U.S.-led strategies to empower women in agriculture and improve resiliency to global food crises caused by epidemics and climate change. The address will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

"Margot Ellis has played a crucial role in leading global initiatives in humanitarian assistance over the past 25 years," said Gary Burniske, managing director of the Center for Global Food Security in Purdue's Discovery Park. "Working in highly influential positions, she has helped translate policy into boots-on-the-ground efforts to address hunger and humanitarian crises in the Middle East and in vulnerable regions around the world."

Prior to her appointment as Deputy Assistant to the Administrator in USAID's Bureau for Food Security, Ellis served as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer and Deputy Commissioner-General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

Writer:  Natalie van Hoose, 765-496-2050, nvanhoos@purdue.edu

Source: Gary Burniske, 765-494-0941, grburniske@purdue.edu

Note to journalists: Contact Gary Burniske to coordinate media interviews with Ellis.

Agricultural Communications: (765) 494-2722;
Keith Robinson, robins89@purdue.edu
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