August 22, 2017
Gardiner Global Food Systems Lecture Monday, September 11
We would like to invite you to attend the upcoming Henry C. Gardiner Global Food Systems Lecture on Monday, September 11, at 7 p.m. in McCain Auditorium.
Dr. Jason Clay, Senior Vice President for Markets and Food with the World Wildlife Fund, will present a lecture entitled, "Feeding the World, Sustaining the Planet."
Clay gets things done on a global scale. His ideas are changing the way governments, foundations, researchers, and NGOs identify and address risks and opportunities for their work. He brings people together to improve environmentally sensitive practices in agriculture and aquaculture. Jason's goal is to create global standards for producing and using raw materials, particularly in terms of carbon and water. He has convened industry roundtables of retailers, buyers, producers and environmentalists to reduce the key impacts of producing soy, cotton, sugarcane, salmon, shrimp, mollusks, catfish and tilapia. "We now have 10 to 25 percent of global production and buyers sitting at the table for each commodity." There is even a beef roundtable.
Clay ran a family farm in Missouri, taught at Harvard and Yale, worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and spent more than 25 years working with human rights and environmental organizations before joining WWF in 1999.
Please plan to attend and encourage co-workers, friends and family to come. The lecture is free and open to the public.
If you cannot attend, please go to the Global Food Systems lecture website, http://www.k-state.edu/globalfood/lecture-series/, and watch the lecture on September 11 or afterwards. The lecture will be archived at that site.