2024 Global Food Security Forum for Young Scientists
The 2024 Global Food Security Forum for Young Scientists will be held on 26-27 October 2024 in Wuhan, China. This year marks the 3rd anniversary of the Global Food Security Association for Young Scientists (GFSAYS), which was jointly founded by Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), and the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO). The association, as an international exchange platform, aims to connect young scientists focusing on food security issues from various disciplines.
The 2024 forum will be hosted by HZAU, with the theme of “Enhancing Youth Power for Global Food Security”.
Event Timeline
Date: October 26-27, 2024 (All times are UTC+8)
International Academic Exchanges Center (IAEC), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
| 日期 | 时间 | 活动 | 地点 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 25 | 14:00 - 20:00 | Registration | 1st Floor IAEC |
| Oct. 26 | 08:30 - 09:20 | Opening Ceremony | Lecture Hall 1st Floor IAEC |
| 09:20 - 10:20 | Plenary Session I | Lecture Hall 1st Floor IAEC | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Coffee Break | Lecture Hall 1st Floor IAEC | |
| 10:40 - 11:40 | Plenary Session I | Lecture Hall 1st Floor IAEC | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Rice Report Release | Lecture Hall 1st Floor IAEC | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | A Taste of Rice: Food Court | Outside garden 1st Floor IAEC | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | Canteen 1st Floor IAEC | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Industry-University-Research (IUR) Conversation | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB | |
| “Novel Food Production” | |||
| 14:00 - 15:40 | Regular Session I-A | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 14:00 - 15:40 | Regular Session I-B | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 14:00 - 15:40 | Regular Session I-C | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 14:00 - 15:40 | Regular Session I-D | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 16:00 - 17:40 | Regular Session II-A | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 16:00 - 17:40 | Regular Session II-B | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 16:00 - 17:40 | Regular Session II-C | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 16:00 - 17:40 | Regular Session II-D | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB | |
| Oct. 27 | 08:00 - 09:40 | Ph.D Session-A | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB |
| 08:00 - 09:40 | Ph.D Session-B | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 08:00 - 09:40 | Ph.D Session-C | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 08:00 - 09:40 | Ph.D Session-D | Room TBD 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Coffee Break | 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Plenary Session II | Room 501 5st Floor HSSB | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Selected Short Videos “Youth Power for Food | Room 501 5st Floor HSSB | |
| Security” | |||
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Close Ceremony | Room 501 5st Floor HSSB |
Keynote Speaker (in alphabetical order)
Binlei Gong, Professor at Zhejiang University
Dr. Binlei Gong is the Qiushi Chair Professor in School of Public Affairs at Zhejiang University. He serves as the Executive Vice Dean in China Academy for Rural Development (CARD) and President-elect of Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) China Section. His own research agenda focuses on ways to optimize resource allocation and enhance the overall productivity growth in the economy and in agricultural sector, as well as new approaches that can lead to successes in the green transition and rural development. Dr. Gong's papers have been published in many academic journals, including Journal of Development Economics and American Journal of Agriclutural Economics. Before joining ZJU, Dr. Gong received his B.S. from Zhejiang University and M.S. in Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics from Michigan State University. He then received M.A. in Economics, M.A. in Statistics, and Ph.D. in Economics from Rice University.
Jordan Chamberlin, Agricultural Economist at the CIMMYT
Jordan Chamberlin is an agricultural economist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), based in Nairobi, Kenya. His research spans a range of topics broadly related to rural transformation in agrarian economies, including digital advisory services and agricultural technology change, rural labor mobility, and the evolution of rural land markets. With CIMMYT, Jordan has been based in Ethiopia and Kenya, with work primarily focused on Africa. Jordan received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University.
Shi Min, Professor at Huazhong Agricultural University
Shi Min is a professor of agricultural economics at the College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, China. He obtained his doctoral degree in Development and Agricultural Economics from Leibniz University Hannover in 2016. He was a postdoctoral fellow at China Center for Agricultural Policy, Peking University from 2017 to 2019. Since he joined Huazhong Agricultural University in 2019, he has mainly focused on research in food policy and economics, as well as agriculture and rural development. To date, he has published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including World Development, Food Policy, Global Food Security and so on. He has also had more than ten articles published in newspapers such as Guangming Ribao and Farmers’ Daily. Eight of the policy briefs he participated in writting were approved or adopted by the provincial or national leaders or agents.
Wendong Zhang, Assistant Professor at Cornell University
Wendong Zhang is an assistant professor and extension economist in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. Zhang is currently faculty affiliate at Cornell Center for China Economic Research, faculty fellow at Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and a 2023-2025 Faculty Fellow at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research in Germany. Zhang is an associate editor of American Journal of Agricultural Economics as well as the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. His research seeks to better understand the interplay between agriculture and the environment, farmland market, and Chinese agriculture. Zhang received his PhD in Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics from Ohio State University.