AGA 2012__ Keynote speech by Sir Gordon Conway
Channel: Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Date: 2013-02-06

Sir Gordon Conway from Imperial College London relays his vast experiences in global food systems and what challenges they face. He uses examples from all around the world of how farming can contribute to improving food security.
 
Read more on his thought provoking insights and to what debates they led at the AGA on http://donorplatform.org/aga.
 
Q&A session:
29:22 Sally Baden, Oxfam on incentives for innovation and including women
34:09 Joost Guijt, Wageningen University on unorganised farmers
35:23 Hedwig Bruggemann, Agri-ProFocus on economic growth
36:46 Paulus Verschuren, Special Envoy for Food & Nutrition Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands on including the private sector
38:22 Bernard Rey, European Commission on agricultural research
39:58 Dennis Garrity, UN Drylands Ambassador on private sector engagement in agro-ecological systems
42:53 Inge Brouwer, Wageningen University on obesity