2020 Virtual AIARD Week
Making Food Safe: Meeting the Global Challenge
June 8-11, 2020.
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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
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).