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Upcoming Press Briefing on the Global Food Crisis [1]

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Date: 2023-01 

MEDIA ADVISORY | January 19 Digital Press Briefing with Special Envoy for Global Food Security, Dr. Cary Fowler and USAID’s Global Food Crisis Coordinator, Dina Esposito

EVENT: Please join us on Thursday, January 19, 2023, for a digital press briefing with Special Envoy for Global Food Security, Dr. Cary Fowler, and USAID Global Food Crisis Coordinator, Dina Esposito. Dr. Fowler and Coordinator Esposito will discuss the U.S. strategy for addressing the global food security crisis and their ongoing visit to Malawi and Zambia. Fowler and Esposito will review their observations from talking with farmers and meeting with stakeholders. The participants will discuss the impact of on-going partnerships and the new $117 million Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative to scale a rapid response for smallholder systems in sub-Saharan Africa. After brief opening remarks, the speakers will take questions from participating journalists.

DETAILS:

Speakers: Dr. Cary Fowler, Special Envoy for Global Food Security

Dina Esposito, USAID Global Food Crisis Coordinator

Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023

Time: 15:30 Malawi | 13:30 GMT | 8:30 Washington DC

Language: English

Ground rules: The briefing will be on the record

Login info: To be provided upon RSVP.

RSVP: Please RSVP by clicking here

Twitter: Join the conversation #AFHubPress and follow @AfricaMediaHub



BIOGRAPHIES:

Dr. Cary Fowler, Special Envoy for Global Food Security

Dr. Cary Fowler is perhaps best known as the “father” of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon described as an “inspirational symbol of peace and food security for the entire humanity.” This facility provides ultimate security for more than 1 million unique crop varieties, the biological foundation of agriculture and the raw material for all future plant breeding and crop improvement efforts. Dr. Fowler is the former Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, an international organization cosponsored by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

Earlier, he oversaw the UN’s first global assessment of the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources. He was responsible for drafting and negotiating the first FAO Global Plan of Action on the Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources, formally adopted by 150 countries in 1996. Following this, Dr. Fowler twice served as Special Assistant to the Secretary General of the World Food Summit and represented the CGIAR in the multi-year negotiations on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources.

Born and raised in Tennessee, Cary Fowler served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Rhodes College in Memphis. He earned a B.A. with honors from Simon Fraser University in Canada, and his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in Sweden.

Dina Esposito, USAID Global Food Crisis Coordinator

Dina Esposito now serves as the new Acting Assistant to the Administrator for the Bureau of Resilience and Food Security (RFS) at USAID, Feed the Future Deputy Coordinator for Development, and the Agency’s Global Food Crisis Coordinator.

Previously, Dina served five years at Mercy Corps (MC), a global organization focused on helping build more resilient, inclusive communities in some of the most fragile contexts in the world through development, humanitarian response and peacebuilding programs. Before joining Mercy Corps, she was the Director of USAID’s Office of Food for Peace, (now part of the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance), where she oversaw for 6 years the Agency’s then $2.8 billion relief and development food assistance portfolio. There she provided strategic direction for the delivery of life-saving food assistance globally, including in Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the Sahel and guided the office through a period of dramatic change.

Dina holds a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, School for Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor’s degree from Williams College.

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