Bringing Space to Place: Transforming African Agriculture with Better SOILS

Resilience. Innovation. Empowerment. Mobilization. Regeneration. Nourishment. These six themes guided conversations during the World Food Prize Foundation’s 2023 Borlaug Dialogue, “Harnessing Change.” These themes also inform the SOILS-Space to Place (SOILS-S2P) initiative, which was the topic of a high-level breakout session held on 26 October as part of the week’s official program in Des Moines, Iowa. Over 1,300 participants from more than 75 countries attended this year’s Borlaug Dialogue.
The breakout session, “Bringing Space to Place: Transforming African Agriculture with Better SOILS,” convened an expert panel of soil scientists, agronomists, researchers, and private sector leaders to present the SOILS-S2P approach and its scalable contributions to food security, resilience, and sustainability on the African continent to an equally distinguished audience.
IFDC Board Co-Chair Dr. Thomas G. Coon moderated the panel, which featured Dr. Tilahun Amede, Director of Sustainable Farming, Climate, and Resilience, AGRA; Dr. Jonathan Atkinson, Head of Agronomy and General Manager, Meridian Farm Services Unit; Dr. P.V. Vara Prasad, Distinguished Professor and Director, Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab, Kansas State University; Dr. Bram Govaerts, 2014 Borlaug Field Award Laureate and Director General, CIMMYT; and Dr. Upendra Singh, Vice President of Research, IFDC.
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