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| Kanayo F. Nwanze President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) |
Current and Future Challenges for Sustainable Food Security |
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| David Bergvinson Director General, International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) |
Digital Agriculture: What is it and how can it contribute towards realizing the sustainable development goals |
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Session #1: Current and Future Challenges for Sustainable Food Security in Developing Countries |
| Santiago Alba-Corral, Director of Policy Innovation and Partnerships, CARE Canada | A Vision for Just and Sustainable Food Systems: The CARE 2020 Food and Nutrition Security Strategy |
| Marian Odenigbo, Special Advisor on Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture, IFAD | Agricultural Development for Sustainable Food Security and Malnutrition Reduction |
| Michael Ngadi, Bioresource Engineering, McGill | Technological Innovations as Platform for Rural Value Chain Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship |
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Session #2: Current and Future Challenges for Sustainable Food Security in Industrialized Countries |
| Valérie Sapin, Academic Associate, FAES, McGill University | Social impact of technology on farm owners and workers |
| Viacheslav Adamchuk, Bioresource Engineering, McGill University | Smart Agriculture Today and Tomorrow |
| Pierre Fobert, National Research Council, Ottawa | Tomorrow’s Farming, Gene-by-Gene, Meter-by-Meter |
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Session #3: Current and Future Challenges for Sustainable Food Security: A student perspective |
| Daniel Haberman, Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University | Growing Food for the Modern City |
| June Yee Tsun Po, Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University | Do Kids Eat Better when Moms have More Say on the Farm? |
| Pierre Tulk, Undergraduate student, McGill University | Rethinking Collective Gardens for Marginalized Urban Communities |
| Laura Husak, IDRC | Knowledge. Innovation. Solutions. |
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Session #4: Panel Discussion: Future Food Security: Who Will be Farming and How? |
| Laurette Dubé, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University | Future Food Security: Who Will be Farming and How? |
| Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez, Director, McGill Institute for Global Food Security | |
| Nicolas Kosoy, Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University | Co-Construction of Agricultural Futures |
| Conference Wrap Up Moderator: Audia Barnett, Inter-American Institute for Co-Operation on Agriculture (IICA) | |
| Presenter | Poster |
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| David Chen | Food Security in the Canadian Arctic |
| Diana Dallmann | Rural Women: Internationally the Most Vulnerable to Food Insecurity |
| Divya Gupta | Microbiological Contamination of Irrigation water and Ready-To-Eat (RTE) vegetables |
| Audrine Makaka - 1st Place Poster | Social/cultural challenges on vitamin A and iron status in infants and young children (IYC) in Machakos and Makueni Counties, Kenya |
| Zachary Mason & Judy Mengistu | Participatory development of agro-ecological systems models for sustainable pest management decisions in two agricultural communities |
| June Yee Tsun Po | Do Kids Eat Better when Moms Trust their Neighbours More? |
| Pierre Tulk | An Atlas in Panama |
