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presents a challenge that ΢����Ƶ gladly accepts: To put science to work to improve and increase the global food supply.

Next week, you can see the winning videos and hear from a World Food Prize laureate in one of many World Food Day programs to be held on campus. Two events are being held off campus, sponsored by the ΢����Ƶ World Food Center, but you can still “attend” — via live streams (from the World Bank and the Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium).

Campus programs include a talk by the director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s nutrition team, and three presentations revolving around ΢����Ƶ’ Feed the Future Innovation Labs.

Programs are scheduled before and after the actual World Food Day, Oct. 16, described as “a day of action against hunger,” held annually on the anniversary of the creation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, or FAO. 

World Food Day 2016 @ ΢����Ƶ

• — ΢����Ƶ plant pathology professor Douglas Cook, director of the , gives this lecture in celebration of the United Nations’ International Year of Pulses (pulses are the edible seeds of plants in the legume family, including chickpeas, dry beans, dry peas and lentils). Lecture will be delivered at World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. 9-10:30 a.m. PDT Wednesday, Oct. 5.

• “Harnessing Agriculture for Improved Nutrition in Africa” — Shawn Baker, director of the nutrition team, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, discusses the foundation’s efforts to ensure that women and children receive the nutrition they need for healthy growth and development. Sponsored by the International Programs Office and the Program in International and Community Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and the World Food Center. 4-5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, Meeting Room D, . Free.

• ΢����Ƶ Dining Services Fall 2016 Farm to Fork Dinner — The menu will feature local foods, including produce from the Student Farm. Open to the public. For students with dining plans, the cost is one swipe of a meal card. Others: staff with ID, $11.80; staff with Aggie Cash, $10.62; children under 8, $7.38; and general $14.75 (prices include tax). 4:45-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, , and dining commons.

• — The World Food Center hosts Catherine Bertini, a World Food Prize laureate, to speak on her 10-plus years as head of the UN’s World Food Programme, and about the need to ensure the world’s neediest people receive not just enough food, but the right food. The program will open with the announcement of the winners of the World Food Day Video Challenge — and the screening of those videos. 4-5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, multipurpose room, , ΢����Ƶ. Lecture will be live-streamed. Free.

• Explore Horticulture Innovations — Presented by the (Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Horticulture) at ΢����Ƶ. Tour the low-cost, agricultural technologies that ΢����Ƶ researchers are using around the world. Edible plant giveaway to first 20 visitors. Guides from the Horticulture Innovation Lab will be available to discuss solar dryers, cool storage, postharvest handling, and vegetable plants from Africa and Asia. Noon-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, . Free.

• Student Farm Tour and Harvest — Presented by the and the , featuring Raj Patel’s Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. Campus and community members are all welcome to attend; maximum 25 people . 9-10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1050 Extension Center Drive. Free. 

• Bees and Climate Change — The 2016-17 ΢����Ƶ Campus Community Book Project, featuring Raj Patel’s Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, invites you to tour the and learn more about “Bees and Climate Change” in celebration of World Food Day. Noon-1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12. Free.

• — The World Food Center hosts this panel discussion on nutrition, and progress on food and nutrition security, during the (World Food Prize International Symposium), Des Moines, Iowa. Elizabeth Mitcham, postharvest biologist who is the director of the Horticulture Innovation Lab at ΢����Ƶ, will be among the panelists, and Josette Lewis, associate director, ΢����Ƶ World Food Center, will be the moderator. Other panelists: Pietro Gennari, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization; Lawrence Haddad, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), International Food Policy Research Institute; Emily Hogue, U.S. Agency for International Development; and Marie Chantal Messier, Nestle. , 2:20-3:30 p.m. PDT Wednesday, Oct. 12.

• Edible Campus Project and World Food Day Information Session — Tour the and learn more about the in celebration of World Food Day. Noon-1:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, in front of the . Free.

• — With five Feed the Future Innovation Labs, more than any other university, ΢����Ƶ is tackling issues ranging from chickpea and millet productivity to poultry, horticulture and asset management by small farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This seminar will feature the chief scientist for USAID’s Bureau for Food Security and a panel discussion with the ΢����Ƶ program directors, along with a presentation on two of the innovation labs. Presented by the International Programs Office, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and sponsored by the , , and the . 10:30 a.m.-noon Monday, Oct. 17, 2207 . Free.