Ambassador Kenneth Quinn's Slides from the 2014 Minnesota AgriGrowth Council Annual Meeting and Conference

1. World Food Prize
Borlaug Centennial

2. Borlaug Statue Unveiling March 25

3. Borlaug Statue Unveiling March 25

4. Borlaug Statue Unveiling March 25

5. Minnesota Ring
Borlaug Statue

6. University of Minnesota
Borlaug Statue Unveiling

7. Borlaug Statues
Mexico India

8. Norman Borlaug
Iowa Farm Boy

9. University of Minnesota Wrestler

10. Miracle Wheat - Mexico

11. Preventing Famine in India and Pakistan

12. Norman Borlaug
Father of the Green Revolution
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
1970

13. $250,000 Prize
Recognizing improvements in the quality, quantity and availability
of food

14. World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony

15. Laureates from
Across the Globe

16. Laureates from
Across the Globe

17. The Borlaug Dialogue
“The premier
conference in the
world on global
food security.”
- Sir Gordon Conway

18. The Borlaug Dialogue

19. Symposium Speakers
Chris Policinski
Land O’ Lakes
2007
Ken Powell
General Mills
2012
Greg Page
Cargill
2010

20. The Borlaug Centennial Began
2013 Borlaug Dialogue
October 16, 2013

21. Pioneers of Agricultural Biotechnology
2013 World Food Prize Laureates
Dr. Marc Van Montagu
Belgium
Robert T. Fraley
United States
Mary- Dell Chilton
United States

22. Borlaug Centennial - Mexico

23. Borlaug Centennial - USDA

24. Borlaug Centennial – Hall of Laureates
Des Moines, Iowa

25. Borlaug Centennial – United Nations

26. Borlaug Centennial – Uganda

27. Borlaug Centennial – Argentina

28. The Seminar - Cargill
North Carolina
Can the World Feed 9 Billion People?

29. Hormel – Guatemala
SPAMMY

30. Dr. Borlaug Honored in Iran

31. Amb. Quinn Speaks in Iran
August 26, 2014

32. An Iranian Scientist in Iowa
October 14 – 18, 2014

33. Confronting hunger can bring diverse people together
across even the broadest cultural, ethnic, religious or
diplomatic differences
Israeli Laureate Daniel Hillel

35. Iowa - 1834
World Population – Approx. 1 Billion

36. Iowa - 1914
World Population – 1.7 Billion

37. Iowa – 2009 | Norm Passed Away
World Population – 7 Billion

38. Iowa – 2046
Bi-Centennial Statehood
World Population – 9 Billion

39. The Borlaug Report
Feeding 9 billion people
“Perhaps the World Food Prize could be the place where
people gather each year to share concretely what they’ve
accomplished, what went well, and what didn’t work.”
-Sylvia Burwell, 2008
Are we on Track?
What Are the Trend Lines?

40. Kenneth G. Cassman
Daugherty Professor of
Agronomy of University of
Nebraska–Lincoln
“As we gather during the Centennial
Anniversary of Dr. Borlaug’s birth,
and as populations continue to rise, the
question is whether current trends in
food production will adequately
provision a stable population of 9-10
billion in a world with a changing
climate and provide us with
sustainable fresh water resources and
acceptable environmental quality.
Unfortunately, the answer is NO! ”

41. Des Moines Register
Sunday, October 19
“Outlook Grim”

42. • Staple Crops
• Nutrition
• Soil / Fertilizer
• Water
• Finance/Insurance
• Wheat
What are the Gaps?

43. Challenges
• Political stability
• Weather
• Diseases
• Trade

44. Africa- Ebola
Kanayo F. Nwanze
President, International Fund for
Agricultural Development
H.E. Ernest Bai Koroma
President, Sierra Leone

45. Africa
Strive Masiyiwa
Chairman and Founder, Econet
Wireless
Emma Naluyima Mugerwa
A Farmer, Mother
and Wife
H.E. Florence Chenoweth
Minister of Agriculture
Liberia
H. E. Gerardine
Mukeshima
Minister of Agriculture and
Animal Resources of
Republic of Rwanda
H.E. Joseph Sam Sesay
Minister of Agriculture,
Forestry and Food Security
of Sierra Leone

46. Norm’s Three emphases
Dream- Green Revolution to Africa
Passion – Inspire the Next Generation
Last Words – Take it to the Farmer

47. 40 Chances

48. 40 Chances Fellowship Winners

49. Norman Borlaug Award For Field Research and
Application,
Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation

50. Norman Borlaug Award For Field Research and
Application,
Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation
Aditi Mukherji
India
Charity Kawira Mutegi
Kenya
Bram Govaerts
Belgium

51. Land O’ Lakes Fellowship
Global Food Challenge
Emerging Leaders for Food Security

53. What Began in 1994 with Just 13 Iowa high
school Students

54. 20 years later is one of the most
unique programs in America

55. Global Youth Institute – October

56. Borlaug-Ruan
International Internships

57. Borlaug-Ruan
International Interns from Minnesota
GLEN MORRIS (FARIBAULT, MN)
China National Hybrid Rice Research &
Development Center | Changsha, CHINA
TESSA RIES (HASTINGS, MN)
International Maize & Wheat Improvement Center
(CIMMYT) | Ankara, TURKEY
JESSICA BLOSBERG (SHOREVIEW, MN)
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
Beijing, CHINA
SARAH MARKETON (HOWARD LAKE, MN)
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) |
Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA

58. Borlaug-Ruan
International Interns from Minnesota
KYLE BOHRER (MEDFORD, MN)
Peking University | Beijing, CHINA
TIFFANIE STONE (ARDEN HILLS, MN)
China National Hybrid Rice Research & Development
Center | Changsha, CHINA
MEERA SURY (ROSEVILLE, MN)
Peking University | Beijing, CHINA
ALEXANDRA SAUERESSIG (CENTER CITY, MN)
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)
Dhaka, Bangladesh

59. Wallace-Carver
USDA Internship

60. Wallace-Carver
Interns from Minnesota
TAMARA MARCUS (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA)
Oregon Natural Resource Conservation Service | Portland, OR
KYLE BOHRER (MEDFORD, MN)
Plant Gene Expression Center | Albany, CA
CLAIRE RUNQUIST (MACALESTER COLLEGE)
Office of the Secretary | Washington, DC
JAMES LINDGREN (MACALESTER COLLEGE)
Office Of The Secretary | Washington, DC
MEERA SURY (CARLETON COLLEGE)
Foreign Agricultural Service | Washington, DC

61. Wallace-Carver
Interns from Minnesota
TIFFANIE STONE (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA)
ARS North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station
Ames, IA
LAUREN SCHEFTER (ST. OLAF COLLEGE)
ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center | Houston, TX
BRANDON HANSON (MORRISTOWN, MN)
ARS National Animal Disease Center | Ames, IA
JEROME JACOBSEN (MAHTOMEDI, MN)
ARS U.S. Meat Animal Research Center | Clay Center, NE
JESSICA BLOSBERG (SHOREVIEW, MN)
ARS Plant Science Research Unit | St. Paul, MN
TESSA RIES (HASTINGS, MN)
ARS U.S. Salinity Lab | Riverside, CA

62. 2014 Crystal – Szymoniak
Award Winners
Tara Mittelberg
Hometown: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Research Location: Brazilian Agricultural Research
Corporation in Londrina, Brazil
Tariro Makoni
Hometown: Minot, North Dakota
Research Location: International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru,
India

63. Build Upon the
Minnesota Youth Institute
In Honor of Dr. Borlaug

65. Symphony to The Prairie Farm
By Minnesota Composer
Steve Heitzig

66. Iowa Borlauger