This Thursday and Friday, Iowa will be the site of an international meeting to discuss risks to the world’s food supply. The event’s organized by the World Food Prize Foundation. Kenneth Quinn is the Foundation’s president.
Quinn says it’ll be the most focused conference anywhere on the issue of bioterrorism. Leading experts from Europe, Africa and the U-S will take part in panel discussions. The United Nations official who heads anti-hunger programs will take part, as will the deputy administrator of the U-S Food and Drug Administration.
Governor Tom Vilsack has declared this “Norman Borlaug Week” in Iowa to celebrate the northern Iowa native who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his revolutionary ag research.
Borlaug will be on hand this week for World Food Prize festivities in Des Moines. The 15th annual World Food Prize will be presented to Per (pair) Pinstrup-Anderson, a native of Denmark who heads the International Food Policy Research Institute. He works with governments in developing nations to create food-subsidy programs to get food to people who need it.
