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2020 Virtual AIARD Week

Making Food Safe: Meeting the Global Challenge
 June 8-11, 2020.

As the world population increases, so do the opportunities and challenges for ensuring that consumers have access to safe, nutritious foods that are sustainably produced, processed, and delivered to the marketplace. Food that is unsafe threatens the health of populations,  harms agricultural value chains, and undermines global social and economic development. 

Our four-day digital event series are dedicated to the topic of food safety. We will explore the many dimensions of global food safety – from production to consumption – and how improvements in food safety practices and technologies can help in building nutritious food systems. 
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Agenda

June 8th, 11 am - 12 pm EDT:  COVID-19 and Food Safety
Speaker: Tom Heilandt, Secretary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/ World Health Organization (WHO) Codex Alimentarius Commission (short Codex)  will be our keynote speaker. His presentation is titled "Food Safety in the Time of COVID-19: The importance of maintaining and strengthening international cooperation in times of isolation".   
Check out a blog post that Tom Heilandt contributed to the AIARD Blog: 
http://www.aiard.org/aiardblog/covid-19-and-food-safety-reflections                           
Moderated by Thomas Pesek, UNFAO North America Liaison Office

June 9th, 11 am - 12 pm EDT: Leveraging Information for Food Safety Policies and Systems Improvements
Speakers:
​Jack Elliot, Texas A&M University, Participatory Approach when Building an SPS Policy Framework for Africa
Fatemeh Malekian, 
 Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center, The Systems Approach to Technical Assistance for Food Safety (co-author: Susan Karimiha)  
Abdelaziz Lawani, 
Eastern Kentucky University, and "Global Partners & Africa Goes Digital" Drones and Food Safety in Rural Africa
Service Opare, 
Nunavut Bureau of Statistics and University Canada West, Climate Change and Food Safety in Canada’s Remote Arctic Regions: An Exploration of the Challenges 
Moderated by: Susan Karimiha, LSU School of Leadership & Human Resource Development

June 10th, 11 am - 12 pm EDT: Mainstreaming Food Safety: Ag Production Challenges and Technology Solutions
Speakers:
Jean-Claude Bizimana, Texas A&M University, Integrated Decision Support System (IDSS): Crop production intensification for food nutrition and safety through conservation agriculture in Amhara region of Ethiopia 
Rafael Quijada Landaverde, Ohio State University, Promoting Food Safety in the Search for Food Security: A Study of Rural Households in El Salvador
Keith Poe, American Nicaragua Foundation, Biointensive Agriculture to Secure Production of Nutritious Food for Impoverished Populations
Maria Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The ADMI Grain Handling System: A Proven Practice to Reduce Contamination and Loss

Moderated by: Ariel Rivers, Pacific Region Representative, National Association of Conservation Districts

June 11th, 11 am - 12 pm EDT: AIARD Annual Business Meeting
​Hosted by AIARD Board, this event is for members only - members will receive a separate invitation link to this event
We would like to remind you that it is about time to renew your annual membership. You can do it HERE.
Since our in-person annual conference had to be cancelled this year due to the CODVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to remind you that you can renew your membership dues now (membership dues used to be included in the conference fee).

Congratulations to 2020 AIARD Awards winners!

Future Leaders Recognitions

The following individuals received AIARD Awards this year. They will be celebrated next year, at our 2021 Annual Conference

Special Service Award: Ambassador Tibor Nagy, US State Department

Distinguished Service Award: Dr. David Picha, Louisiana State University
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Young Professional Award: Dr. Austen Moore, Catholic Relief Services and Dr. Sarah Eissler, Eissler Consulting


Although we did not hold a formal Future Leaders Forum this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we would like to recognize the following outstanding applicants:

Christian Scott, Penn State University

Osler Ortez, 
University of Nebraska - Lincoln 

Nicole Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

With the support of Bill Guyton Foundation and several individuals, we were able to award the AIARD Scholarship this year which was awarded to Nicole Lee.
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  • About AIARD
    • About AIARD
    • Mission & Objectives
    • Officers and Committee Chairs
    • Constitution & Bylaws
    • Committees >
      • Education & Advocacy Committee
      • Membership Committee
      • Communications Committee
      • Finance Committee
      • Awards Committee
      • Future Leaders Forum Committee
      • Events Commitee
  • Members
    • Members
    • Reasons to Join AIARD
    • Join AIARD
    • Past Award Recipients
    • Career Networking
  • Communications
    • Communications
    • AIARD Blog
    • AIARD Publications
    • Email Subscription
    • Partner Publications
  • Events
    • 2025 Annual Conference
    • AIARD FLF Webinar Series
    • Previous Events >
      • Virtual AIARD Week 2021 >
        • 2021 Sessions
        • 2021 Sponsors
      • Virtual AIARD Week 2020 >
        • 2020 Sponsors
        • 2020 Speakers and Moderators
      • AIARD Side Event at the World Food Prize
      • 2019 Annual Conference >
        • 2019 Photo Gallery
        • Conference agenda
  • Future Leaders
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