One mandate of the 2020 Vision initiative is to keep abreast of major developments that are likely to affect food security, the livelihoods of the poor, and the environment over the next two decades. The meeting was structured as an international consultation on emerging issues in global food security, poverty alleviation, and natural resource management. Vice President John Evans Atta Mills of Ghana hosted the meeting, and Kibirige Sebunya, the Ugandan minister of state for agriculture, and J. J. Otim, special presidential adviser, represented the chair of the IAC, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. The primary objective of the meeting was to pinpoint the knowledge gaps that need to be filled in order to realize the 2020 Vision, to delineate the next steps for the initiative, and to identify the action needed by the initiative s partners. The meeting concluded with a discussion of what the 2020 Vision initiative should be doing in all these areas.
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