Borlaug Institute Seminar Series
Past Seminars
The Role of Livestock and Global Food Security-Presented as “Challengers to Food Security: The Role of Livestock Production in Developing CountriesThe Role of Livestock and Global Food Security” By Dr. Elsa Murano
Appolinaire DJIKENG / Director General, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Senior Director, One CGIAR Livestock-based systems, ILRI, CGIAR
Dr. Elsa Murano / Chair Board of Trustees ILRI, BIIAD, ILRI
Sustainable Livestock Production systems in LMICs – a veterinary’s perspective
Dieter Schillinger / Deputy Director General, ILRI
The Past, Present and Future of USAID’s Higher Education Programming
Dr. Samantha Alvis / Senior Advisor, Higher Education, United State Agency for International Development (USAID) Center for Education
Sowing C’s: Positive Youth Development in Ghana
IAEFP Fellows / 8 Fellows, BIIAD/IAEFP
Jessica Spence / Program Coordinator, BIIAD/IAEFP
The Potential of Real World Impact through Research and Entrepreneurship at a Land Grant Institution
Dr. Amit Dhingra / Professor and Head of the Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University
Innovations in Food Access for High Poverty Households
Jeremy Everett / Founder and Executive Director, Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty
The Contributions of Farmer Cooperatives to Production, Incomes, and Technology Adoption
Elizabeth Tabares / Program Coordinator, Borlaug Institute
Dr. Ariun Ishdorj / Associate Professor, TAMU COALS Department of Ag Economics
Dr. Roger Norton / Regional Director, Borlaug Institute
Water-Energy-Food-Nutrition/Health Nexus
Dr. Rabi H. Mohtar / Professor, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Agriculture, Philosophy and Livestock
Dr. Lindsay Falvey / Professor Emeritus, ILRI-CIGAR
Team Greenbelt Presents: A Solution for Using Technology to Empower Ugandan Women in Agriculture
Meikah Dado / Graduate Student, Texas A&M University
Danette Philpot / Graduate Student, Texas A&M University
Garrett Brogan / Graduate Student, Texas A&M University
Ryan Staples / Graduate Student, Texas A&M University
Sustained Food Security in India: Need for Multi-Institutional Collaboration and Continued Government Support
Dr. B.B. Singh / Visiting Professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University
2020 Vision Focus on the Future: The Vision for the Year Ahead in Food Science Technologies and Methods
Dr. Mindy M. Brashears / Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, USDA
What Will it Really Take to Make Coffee the World’s First Sustainable Agricultural Product?
Bambi Semroc / Vice President of Sustainable Markets and Strategy, Conservation International’s Center for Environmental Leadership in Business
Irrigation and Agriculture Development in Africa
Dr. Seifu Tilahun / Associate Professor at Faculty of Civil and Water Resources Engineering, Bahir Dar Institute of Technology-Bahir Dar University
The Grit Factor
Kathryn Edmunds / Founder, The Grit
Dr. Tobin Redwine / Agricultural Journalism Professor, Texas A&M University
Jameisha “Meisha” Brown / Health Education Representative and Storyteller, The Grit
Jessica Spence / Master’s student specializing in visual communication, Texas A&M University
Resilience as a Means to Bridge the Humanitarian-Development Divide and Tackle Food Crises
Dominique Burgeon / Director of the Liaison Office, United Nations in Geneva
USAID and Texas A&M
Chris Milligan / Counselor, USAID
Growing the Future of Nutrition
Jody Hall / Director of Global Sourcing, H.E.B.
Miguel Calatayud / CEO and Director, Qualitas Health
How the Foreign Agriculture Service Walks the Fine Line of Linking U.S. Agriculture to the World
Jocelyn G. Brown / Deputy Administrator, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
Coffee Research and Education at TAMU: Why is it Relevant?
Dr. Leo Lombardini / Professor of Horticulture, Texas A&M University
Building Capacity for Resilient Agricultural Practices and Improved Food Security
Manuel Oliva / Acting Director, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
Smarter Agribusiness Regulation
Joseph Lowther / President, Cardno International Development USA
The Path Towards African Food Security and Reduction of Poverty
Dr. Juliana Kente Rwelamira / Managing Director, Sasakawa Africa Association
Managing Risk Through Economic Development
Yuvaraj Sudhakar / Graduate Student, Agricultural Economics
Role of Horticulture within the Global Food Security Initiative
Dr. Elizabeth Mitcham / Director, Horticulture Innovation Lab, UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences
Accountability and Learning for the U.S. Government’s Hunger and Food Security Initiative
Dr. Emily Hogue / Technical Team Lead for Monitoring and Evaluation, Bureau for Food Security
Discussing the Practice and Politics of Evaluating Foreign Aid
Mihir Desai / Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dexis Consulting Group
Following up on Dr. Borlaug’s Last Wishes about Africa
Dr. Pedro Sanchez / Professor of Tropical Soils, University of Florida
1,000 Days to Change the World
Roger Thurow / Senior Fellow for Global Agriculture and Food Policy, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Building Technical Extension Capacity and Improving Livestock Production in Afghanistan
Terry Hutchens / National Livestock Project Director, Afghanistan Agricultural Extension Project
Concepts of Sustainable Intensification for Improved Food and Nutritional Security
Dr. P.V. Vara Prasad / Professor of Crop Ecophysiology, Kansas State University
The Importance of Higher Education in Development: An Africa Focus
Dr. Montague W. Demment / Vice President, International Programs, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Agripreneurs Find Agrilutions
Alpha Sennon / Founder and Executive Director, Whyfarm
GMOs to Cell Phones
Dr. Robb Fraley / Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Monsanto
Changes in Culture
Dr. Jeffrey Lansdale / President, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana
A Role Model of Outreach for Nano Education in Taiwan
Dr. Fuh Seng Shieu / President, National Chung Hsing University
Reducing by Responding
Dr. Prasanta K. Kalita / Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Feeding Humanity through Agricultural Innovation
Dr. Victor Villalobos / Director General, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture