Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security: Postponed
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security has been postponed.
The purpose of the symposium is to evaluate the progress of the U.S. and international food security strategy and to provide critical thinking on moving this strategy forward. In recent weeks, however, the unforeseen tragedy in Haiti has captured the attention of the policy and humanitarian communities in Washington and around the world, and rightly shifted attention and work from the issues surrounding the food security strategy. The Chicago Council has therefore decided to postpone the symposium. Further information on the updated schedule will be forthcoming shortly.
Over the next month, as conditions in Haiti improve and allow the national and international policy communities to return to a longer-term agenda for food security, the time will again become ripe for a discussion of these issues. We look forward to a substantive, timely, and critically important conversation about the future of American and international agricultural development and food security policy then.
The Chicago Council will continue to partner with the following organizations for this event:
- Bread for the World
- Concern Worldwide
- Global Harvest Initiative
- InterAction
- International Center for Research on Women
- ONE Campaign
- Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
- United States Institute of Peace
- World Food Prize Foundation
To seek further information about the new symposium plans, please contact Lindsay Iversen, or phone (312.821.7560).
We are aware that a delay of this nature is unusual and we appreciate your understanding.
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