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Annual Conference 2010
46th Annual Conference and 2010 Future Leaders Forum
June 6-9, 2010
"Linking Agriculture, Nutrition and Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Development"


Program

If we are to reach Millennium Development Goal #1, Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger, agricultural development professionals will need to work in new ways, across disciplines, with many others who can contribute to this goal. This meeting will be dedicated to examining critical agriculture-nutrition-health collaboration necessary to more quickly reach the goal of eradicating hunger.

Sunday, June 6

3:30 p.m.Executive Board Meeting
Room of the Secretary/Treasurer, Holiday Inn Capitol

6:30 p.m.Sunday Evening Reception
Discovery Room

Monday, June 7

7:30 a.m.Continental Breakfast
Discovery Room

8:30 a.m.Welcome and Program Overview
Chris Pannkuk, Washington State University, AIARD President, 20092010
Rob Nooter, Social Enterprise Management Services, LLC, AIARD President Elect

8:45 a.m.Panel I: The Challenge of Integrating Health and Agricultural Policies and Programs to Improve Nutrition

Presiding: Ryan Moore, USDA-ARS, AIARD Membership Committee Co-Chair

Agricultural Development, Health and Nutrition: Critical Partners or Weak Allies?
Jerry Combs, USDA-Agricultural Research Service

Health Programs and Policies and the Role of Nutrition
Keith West, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Challenges for Health, Nutrition and Agricultural Policy Integration
Susan Bradley, Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Bureau, USAID

10:10 a.m.Break

10:30 a.m.Panel I (continued)

USAID's Strategy for Integrating Agriculture, Health and Nutrition
Laura Birx, Global Health Bureau, USAID

Field-Based Innovations at USAID: "The Gender Informed Nutrition and Agriculture Alliance: Successes, Challenges and The Way Forward
Cheryl Jackson-Lewis, Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade Bureau, USAID

11:30 a.m.AIARD Future Leaders Forum: Introduction of Participants
Mike McWhorter, Texas A&M University, AIARD Director and Past President

NoonLunch
Presentation of AIARD's Special Service Award to Senator Richard Lugar
Chris Pannkuk, AIARD President, Presiding

Luncheon Presentation: Research to Implementation: Linking Agriculture and Nutrition for Child Health and Development
Montague Demment, University of California, Davis, Former AIARD President

1:30 p.m.Panel II: Agriculture, Environment and Human Health: Issues and recommendations for Integration 

Presiding: Bill Guyton, World Cocoa Foundation and AIARD Director

Agricultural Development, Water Quality, and Human Health
Michael O'Neill, USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Soil Health in Developing Countries: Impacts on Crops and on Human Nutrition
Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Rural Futures — Whatever Happened to Development?
Owen Cylke, World Wildlife Fund

3:00 p.m.Coffee Break

3:30 p.m.Panel III: Connecting Agriculture, Food Safety and Health

Presiding: Richard Tracy, Global Cold Chain Alliance, AIARD Director

Postharvest Technology: A Critical Route to Improved Food Safety and Health
Symantha Holben, World Food Logistics Organization

Food Safety: Aflatoxin and Gender-Related Constraints in Peanut Production
Maria Elisa Christie, Virginia Tech

Strengthening Seafood Sanitation and Handling Practices and Protecting Health: Prevention not Detention
Michael Jahncke, Virginia Cooperative Extension

5:00 p.m.Adjourn

5:45 p.m.President's Reception

6:30 p.m.Dinner
Chris Pannkuk, Washington State University, AIARD President, Presiding

7:30 p.m.AIARD Awards Presentation: Recognizing Excellence and Career Achievements
Albert Ayeni, Rutgers University, Awards Committee Chair, Presiding

8:00 p.m.Adjourn

Tuesday, June 8

7:30 a.m.Continental Breakfast
Discovery Room

8:30 a.m.Session IV: Relevance of AIARD's 2002 Assessment: "The Agriculture, Nutrition, and HIV/AIDS Connections in Developing Countries"
Reed Hertford, EAM Company, Former AIARD President and Director

9:15 a.m.So What? Roundtable Interactions about Implications and Actions
Moderators:
Hiram Larew, AIARD Past President
Stephanie Curs, Texas A&M University, AIARD Communications Chair
Amanda Crump, University of California Davis, AIARD Secretary/Treasurer

10:45 a.m.Coffee Break

11:05 a.m.Report and Action Items from Discussion Groups

11:30 a.m.Reflections on the AIARD Conference
Future Leaders Forum Participants

11:45 a.m.46th Annual Meeting Program Wrap Up: Observations and Comments
Handy Williamson, University of Missouri, AIARD President Elect, 2010-2011

NoonAdjourn Program Meeting

Lunch


1:00 p.m.AIARD Annual Business Meeting
Chris Pannkuk, Washington State University, AIARD President, 2009- 2010, presiding

1:45 p.m.Adjourn

Wednesday, June 9

7:30 a.m.Future Leaders Forum Participants Visit Washington, DC Offices


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