The theme of the  2017 symposium, “The Road out of Poverty”, encapsulates the power of treating agriculture as a business, and the impact of truly “bringing it to the farmer”, as Norman Borlaug taught us. Among the speakers is “Africa’s Norman Borlaug”, the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate Akinwumi Adesina of the African Development Bank who has made it his life’s mission to promote agriculture, good nutrition, and education as the keys to “uplifting millions out of poverty.” Read more >>