Internationally Recognized Professor Visits and Lectures At George Daily

Dr. Per Pinstrup-Anderson spoke Tuesday in Oskaloosa at George Daily Auditorium

Oskaloosa, Iowa – Elected to receive the world food prize in 2001 for his contribution to agricultural research,and in 1993, he launched the 2020 Vision Initiative. The 2020 Vision Initiative strives so that every person has sufficient food to sustain a healthy and productive life.

Dr. Per Pinstrup-Anderson spoke Tuesday at George Daily Auditorium about the opportunities and challenges about the 2020 Vision. “The world can rid itself of hunger and malnutrition”, Dr. Pinstrup-Anderson said as he began to highlight the challenges faced in order to achieve that goal.

Dr. Pinstrup-Anderson began by speaking about food prices and that they have “gone up dramatically” as a challenge facing the world. “Is that really food prices or is it the starvation that is currently happening in the regions of Africa where thousands of people are dying of starvation simply because of drought and very poor governments”, Dr. Pinstrup-Anderson stated as he pointed out that nearly 1 billion people don’t get enough to eat. He went on to say about 5 million people did die last year from nutrition related illnesses.

Dr. Pinstrup-Anderson currently is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University. Dr. Pinstrup-Anderson also holds multiple honorary doctorates and professorships including many professional appointments.

In 2001, Dr. Pinstrup-Anderson published the book, ‘Seeds of Contention’, that has since been published in 5 languages.

The World Food Prize is an international award given in recognition of individual achievements for those who have helped advance human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.