This week, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is bringing together over 900 international leaders at its 2020 Conference “Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health.”
This is the first major global conference to discuss how agriculture, nutrition and health experts can work together to sustainably reduce malnutrition for the world’s most vulnerable people, leveraging the power of agriculture.
I thought you might be interested to know that Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, delivered one of the keynote speeches. Her remarks highlight the need to tap the full potential of agricultural development to combat malnutrition, and pointed out the work of foundation grantees including IFPRI, Harvest Plus, and Landesa.
Her full speech can be found here, and a blog here.
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