Mitigating the Nutritional Impacts of the Global Food Price Crisis:  A Workshop

July 14 - 16, 2009

The Kaiser Family Foundation

Barbara Jordan Conference Center

1330 G Street, NW

Washington, DC 20005

This 3-day meeting convened by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine explored the implications of the recent global food price increase and economic crisis on nutrition and health. International presenters discussed the effects of the economic and food price crises on nutrition; nutrition surveillance; responses to the crises on individual country and global levels; U.S. policies surrounding the crises; and actions to mitigate the current crises as well as prevent future crises.

Portions of this workshop were webcasted by Kaiser Family Foundation and are available at: http://globalhealth.kff.org/Multimedia/2009/July/14/gh071409video.aspx.
 

 Workshop speakers included:

Catherine Bertini & Dan Glickman, Chicago Initiative on Global Agricultural Development

Hans Timmer, World Bank

David Nabarro, UN Task Force on Global Food Security Crisis

Reynaldo Martorell, Emory University

Representative James McGovern, Roadmap to End Global Hunger

Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University

Marie Ruel, IFPRI

Ricardo Uauy, University of Chile; London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine 

If you have any questions, please contact Gui Liu at gliu@nas.edu. 

This workshop is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with additional support from the PepsiCo Foundation.