Washington Conference - March 2010
2010 Nutrition and Development Conference
“Food Security: Addressing Availability, Access
and Utilization in Developing Countries”
March 18, 2010
Washington, DC - Washington Court Hotel
Presentations:
The following presentations are downloadable in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format
- Keynote Remarks by Ann Tutwiler, Coordinator for the Global Food Security Initiative, USDA
- USDA Building Global Partnerships in New and Traditional Ways by Patricia Sheikh, USDA
- Whole of Government Approach to Food Security by Laura Birx, USDA
- USDA Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement Pilot Project by Jamie Fisher, USDA
- Agricultural Development: Soy Links in Value Chain by Sherry-Lee Abrahams of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- The Business End of the Agricultural Value Chain by Jim Hershey, WISHH
Breakout Sessions:
- Peanut Based Ready to Use Foods by Stephanie Grunenfelder, American Peanut Council
- Innovative Nutrition Products, Field Level Experience by Catherine Feeney, World Food Programme
- Development and Testing of a Fortified Blended Weaning Food by Christine Papai, Feed My Starving Children
- Improving School Nutrition by Penny McConnell, Global Child Nutrition Foundation
- Improving School Nutrition: Senegal Case Study by David Cohen, Counterpart International
- Locally Produced School Feeding Programs in Four Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa by Mark Holt, USDA
- Around the World with Soy by Stacey Krawczyk, NSRL
- Sustainable Food Development by Kent Holt, Solae Company
- Trade and Development as a Tool for Change by Peter Golbitz, SunOpta
- Improved Food Security with Local Processing of Soy by Hart Jansson, Malnutrition Matters
- Soy Dairy Micro-Enterprise by Courtney Tamimie, NSRL
- Soy for Development by Marie Lichtenberg, Planet Aid
- Overview of Nutrition and Food Efforts on the African Continent: The Africare Experience by Kechi Achebe, MD MPH, Africare
- Haiti Relief to Development by Bridget Owen, NSRL
