Agronomy Seminar: Louise Fresco

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Date/Time:Thursday, 15 Oct 2015 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:1951 Food Sciences Building
Phone:515-294-1360
Channel:Agronomy Department
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"Hamburgers in Paradise: Food and Agriculture in the 21st century," Louise Fresco, president of Wageningen University, Netherlands, and distinguished speaker at the World Food Prize 2015. Reception precedes seminar at 11:30 a.m. in the Food Sciences courtyard.

A former UN director, contributor to think tanks and an advisor to academies in Europe and the United States, Fresco speaks on how social unrest is made worse by hunger, poverty, environmental problems and modernization. In 2013 she published a thought-provoking op-ed in Science titled "The GMO Stalemate in Europe."

She served nearly 10 years as assistant-director general at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and is a member of the World Food Prize Council of Advisors.

Her book, Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat, will be released in November 2015.