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"GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGES:
MONITORING EARTH RESOURCES"


USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of Global Analysis
Partners with DoD, NASA, USAID and State Department
to Address these Challenges

AGENDA

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Ronald Reagan Building and International Conference Center
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20004
Oceanic Room
Time Topic Speaker  
8:00—9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast  

9:00—9:15 Host Introductions - Welcome Maurice House, Deputy Administrator, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of Global Analysis

9:15—10:30 Reshaping our Resources to Address:
Global Food Security
SESSION I

9:15—9:40 Environmental Challenges And Global Security Colonel Stephen J. Lynch, JCS, J5 SIAD, Pentagon

9:40—10:05 Factors Contributing to the Recent Increase in Food Commodity Prices Mike Dwyer, Division Director, Global Policy Analysis, USDA FAS, Office of Global Analysis

10:05—10:30 Food Security and Supply: Lessons from IRAQ Jonathan Gressel, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Former Agricultural Counselor/Baghdad

10:30—10:45 BREAK  

10:45—12:15 Government Collaboration: PANEL Keys to Overcoming Global Food Security Challenges SESSION II: Moderator: Robert Tetrault, Program Manager, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of Global Analysis

10:45—11:00 Panel Member Carl Stuekerjuergen, Director, eGEOINT, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

11:00—11:15 Panel Member Dr. Stanley Wood, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute

11:15—11:30 Panel Member Dr. Bradley Doorn, Division Director, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of Global Analysis

11:30—11:45 Panel Member Gary Eilerts, Program Manager, USAID FEWS-NET

12:15—1:15 LUNCH Complementary Lunch

1:15—3:15 Government Solutions and Research for World Food Supply Challenges – Joint Project and Policy Views SESSION III:

1:15—1:45 Global Security: Importance of Source Data and Expert Input Jack Hild, Assistant Chief Information Officer for Data, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

1:45—2:15 USDA FAS and NGA Partnership in IRAQ Robert Tetrault, Satellite Imagery Archive Manager, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of Global Analysis

2:15—2:45 Global Agriculture Land Cover: Data collection, Analysis and Dissemination Compton (Jim) Tucker, Senior Earth Scientist, Climate Change Program Office, NASA

2:45—3:15 Government Policy impacting Global Food Security Patrick Hudak, Foreign Affairs Officer,
State Department
Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science


3:15—3:30 BREAK  

3:30—4:30 Executive Session Summary Review Dr. Bradley Doorn, Division Director, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of Global Analysis

4:30—6:30 RECEPTION AND POSTERS
USDA FAS Crop Explorer, USAID, NASA and NGA
Cash Bar and Complementary Food

 
For more information contact Bob Tetrault | Robert.Tetrault@fas.usda.gov | 202-720-1071
USDA-FAS-CMP-IPAD

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