Program

Moderator: Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez, Director, McGill Institute for Global Food Security, Margaret Gilliam Faculty Scholar in Food Security, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University

Introduction of Speaker
Anja Geitmann
Dean, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Current and Future Challenges for Sustainable Food Security

Kanayo F. Nwanze
President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

REGISTRATION OPENS

Pre-registration; you may also register on site at the Conference.

Registration fee: $260/$60 (students with ID) [registration fee includes conference sessions, breaks, lunch, networking and refreshments]

OPENING REMARKS

Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez
Director, McGill Institute for Global Food Security; Margaret A. Gilliam Faculty Scholar in Food Security; Professor, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University

08:35-08:40

WELCOME FROM THE DEAN

Anja Geitmann
Dean, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Moderator: Chandra Madramootoo, Bioresource Engineering, McGill

Digital Agriculture: What is it and how can it contribute towards realizing the sustainable development goals

David Bergvinson
Director General, International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Session #1:  Current and Future Challenges for Sustainable Food Security in Developing Countries

- Equity and Gender
- Role of Digital Technologies
- How Does Farming Look in the Future?

CHAIR: Vijaya Raghavan, Bioresource Engineering, McGill

PANELISTS:
Santiago Alba-Corral, Director of Policy Innovation and Partnerships, CARE Canada
Marian Odenigbo, Special Advisor on Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture, IFAD
Michael Ngadi, Bioresource Engineering, McGill

Session #2: Current and Future Challenges for Sustainable Food Security in Industrialized Countries

- Equity and Gender
- Role of Digital Technologies
- How Does Farming Look in the Future?

CHAIR: Gordon Hickey, Natural Resource Sciences, McGill

PANELISTS:
Valérie Sapin, Academic Associate, FAES, McGill University
Viacheslav Adamchuk, Bioresource Engineering, McGill University
Pierre Fobert, National Research Council, Ottawa

Session #3:Current and Future Challenges for Sustainable Food Security: A student perspective

CHAIR: Caroline Begg, Plant Science, McGill

PANELISTS:
Daniel Haberman, Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University 
June Yee Tsun Po, Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University
Pierre Tulk, Undergraduate student, McGill University
Laura Husak, IDRC

Session #4: Panel Discussion: Future Food Security: Who Will be Farming and How?

Moderator: Valérie Orsat, Bioresource Engineering, McGill

PANELISTS
Laurette Dubé, Desautels Faculty  of Management, McGill University
Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez, Director, McGill Institute for Global Food Security
Nicolas Kosoy, Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University

Conference Wrap Up

Moderator: Audia Barnett, Inter-American Institute for Co-Operation on Agriculture (IICA)

POSTER SESSION
sponsored by Erin Hogg, DipAgr'95

David Chen
Diana Dallmann
Divya Gupta
Audrine Makaka
June Yee Tsun Po
Pierre Tulk

NETWORKING AND REFRESHMENTS