Leveraging Agriculture to Improve Human Nutrition

Time:  12:15 pm to 1:45 pm EST (Please join us for lunch beginning at 11:45 am); Live webcast coming up at the scheduled time

Presenter(s):  Bouis, Director, HarvestPlus (a joint IFPRI/CIAT initiative); Ingo Potrykus, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Adrian Dubock, Project Director, Golden Rice; S.R. Rao, Adviser, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India Contact/RSVP: 

RSVP to Simone Hill-Lee - s [dot] hill-lee [at] cgiar [dot] org 202-862-8107

 Location: 

International Food Policy Research Institute
2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC
Fourth Floor Conference Facility

Following a decade of research, professors Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer invented Golden Rice in 2000. This breakthrough transformed milled white rice into an affordable and potentially plentiful source of vitamin A in developing countries. The Golden Rice Project works to provide this biofortified rice to those most at risk of malnutrition. In 2004 the first Golden Rice field trials took place in Louisiana, followed by the first Asian field trials in 2008.