Webinar: Aligning Research to the GFSS: Nutrition, Resilience & Agriculture-Led Economic Growth
Channel: Agrilinks
Date: 2017-04-18

This video is the kickoff webinar for three-day online AgExchange where the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) asked for input on research investments to support the U.S. Government’s Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS). 

Dr. Brady Deaton, BIFAD Chair and Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Missouri opened the event; featuring remarks by Dr. Ann Bartuska, Acting Chief Scientist and Under Secretary, Research Education, and Economics Mission Area, U.S. Department of Agriculture; and presentations from Dr. Saharah Moon Chapotin, Deputy Assistant to the Administrator in USAID's Bureau for Food Security and Dr. Robert Bertram, Chief Scientist of the Bureau for Food Security, USAID.

The exchange facilitated online discussions, which will explore USG research needs across three core themes from the GFSS Results Framework: agriculture-led economic growth, resilience, and nutrition.

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Additional resources from this event can be found at: https://agrilinks.org/agexchange/aligning-research-investments-global-food-security-strategy-three-day-agexchange