靠谱买球app推荐 to Host World Food Prize Lecture Series on October 17
posted on Monday, October 2, 2017 in
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WATERLOO–靠谱买球app推荐 will host a talk by Bram Govaerts on Tuesday, October 17, 2017, at 12:00pm in Tama Hall on Hawkeye’s Main Campus, 1501 E. 滑铁卢橙道. The visit is part of the World Food Prize Lecture Series.
Govaerts is dedicated to turning subsistence agriculture and failed farming systems into productive and sustainable production units that make it possible for farmers to escape hunger and poverty in the developing world. Since 2007, he has led the Mexico-based conservation agriculture program for the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center. He leads the center’s research on conservation agriculture, applying science to the development of sustainable farming practices and methods that are specifically designed to meet the challenges confronting the rural poor.
比利时人, he is a graduate of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and was Belgian’s official representative to the International Youth Forum for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1997.
本次活动由 Global Agriculture Learning Center 在靠谱买球app推荐. The World Food Prize Lecture Series is an extension of the 2017 Borlaug Dialogue Symposium held in Des Moines October 18–20, 2017. 欲了解更多信息，请联系 Brad Kinsinger 319-296-2329，分机.1321.
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- Global Agriculture Learning Center
- World Food Prize