N.W. The conference will identify the most promising solutions to meeting the challenge of feeding a growing world population while protecting and preserving the environment. Sessions of the conference will present new research and suggest policy directions. Some 400 participants from dozens of nations around the world, including prominent policymakers, leading scientists and economists, and heads of nongovernmental organizations and aid agencies are expected to attend. The 2020 conference will seek to apply new empirical evidence to the issues raised by the major United Nations conferences over the past decade and to take a fresh look at development issues through the lens of food and agriculture. It is also hoped that the outcome of the 2020 Vision initiative will be useful to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's upcoming World Food Security Summit.
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