November 16, 2016 University of Chicago: Gleacher Center | 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive | Chicago, IL | 60611 Eat better Eat less Food for all #bcfnforum 7TH INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON FOOD & NUTRITION MILAN, BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, DECEMBER 1ST 2016 Saying “enough” is no longer enough. Our planet cannot be obese and hungry at the same time. We should not be throwing away food that would be enough to end hunger. Nor can we favor the production of biofuels to feed cars instead of people who go to bed hungry. With the presentation of the Food and Nutrition Sustainability Index, we will propose solutions to overcome these huge challenges of our time. For a better future for all. The world is hungry for people like you – let’s change the world together. To participate, sign-up online. www.barillacfn.com/en/forum IN COOPERATION WITH: RESEARCH PARTNER: WELCOME Welcome to the Chicago Food Tank Summit! Our Vision: Building a global community for safe, We’re honored to partner with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and University healthy, nourished eaters. of Chicago Booth School of Business. We hope you are all ready to discuss some Our Values: of the most pressing issues facing the agricultural landscape both in midwest and Educate. Inspire. Advocate. Change. around the world—including the future of food, food transparency, unlikely alliances, and the business of food. Our Mission: Food Tank is focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished We aren’t just here to talk about the challenges—this event is meant to be a platform for brainstorming eaters. We spotlight environmentally, solutions, enabling dynamic conversation, and networking with one another. We hope to create solutions that socially, and economically sustainable only come about when all of us—farmers, eaters, businesses, policymakers, academics, youth, funders, and the ways of alleviating hunger, obesity, and media—come together to break down silos and listen to one another. We’re thrilled to bring together more than poverty and create networks of people, organizations, and content to push for 35 of some of the most important and interesting problem solvers in food and agriculture—farmers, economists, food system change. scientists, activists, business leaders, policymakers, and academics. We hope this day of conversation will leave you feeling angry, curious, and hopeful about the future of food, Food Tank is for the 7 billion people who have to eat every day. We will both in your backyard as well as around the globe. And we know that the discussions happening on stage offer solutions and environmentally and during breaks culminate into actionable steps to create a more equitable, safe, healthy, and nourishing sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, food system. obesity, and poverty by creating a network of connections and information for all of us to consume and share. The incredible lineup of experts who are speaking have a lot to share, but the conversation won’t end after the Food Tank is for farmers and producers, Food Tank Summit is over. We will make sure it continues through our articles, op-eds, reports, videos, webinars, policy makers and government leaders, and social media over the next year. Please contribute to the discussion and offer your thoughts, suggestions, researchers and scientists, academics and criticisms. Food Tank grows from the ground up and we can’t do that without your input. and journalists, and the funding and donor communities to collaborate on providing sustainable solutions for Thank you for attending the first Chicago Food Tank Summit. We’re excited to see what unfolds! our most pressing environmental and social problems. All the best, Food Tank highlights hope and success Danielle Nierenberg in agriculture. We feature innovative President, Food Tank ideas that are already working on the ground, in cities, in kitchens, in fields and in laboratories. These innovations need more attention, more research, and ultimately more funding to be replicated and scaled-up. And that is where we need you. We all need to work together to find solutions that nourish ourselves and protect the planet. Food Tank is a 501(c)3 non profit organization. About this program: Printed on an acid free paper containing 30% post-consumer waste. This product contains fiber from well-managed sources. WWW.FOODTANK.COM • #FOODTANK 2016 Food Tank Summit 1 FOOD TANK SUMMIT AGENDA CHICAGO THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16, 2016 8:30 am Registration and Complimentary Breakfast 12:15 pm Lunch 9:00 am Welcome: Stacey Kole, Deputy Dean for Alumni, 1:15 pm Afternoon Keynote: Rick Bayless, Chef and Owner, Frontera Corporate Relations, and Full-time MBA Program and Clinical Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business 1:25 pm PANEL: Transparency in the Food System Moderator: Shruti Singh, Reporter, Bloomberg News 9:05 am Welcome: Alesha Black, Director, Global Food and Keynote: Juliette Majot, Executive Director, Institute for Agriculture Agriculture Program, Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Trade Policy (IATP) 9:10 am Welcome: Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank • Bruce Friedrich, Executive Director, The Good Food Institute • Angela Mason, Associate Vice President, Windy City Harvest 9:20 am Opening Keynote: Kevin Cleary, CEO, Clif Bar & Company • Karen Lehman, Director, Fresh Taste • Gene Baur, President and Co-Founder, Farm Sanctuary • Cassandra Ly, Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN) Alumni Association 9:30 am PANEL: Farming the Future Moderator: Roger Thurow, Author, Journalist, & Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2:40 pm Break Keynote: Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University 2:55 pm PANEL: The Future of Food Moderator: Bill Daley, Food Writer, Chicago Tribune • Harry Rhodes, Executive Director, Growing Home Keynote: William Warshauer, President and CEO, TechnoServe • Greg Kearns, Vice President, Institutional Partnerships, Heifer International • Ben Burkett, President, National Family Farm Coalition • Alexander Borschow, Partner, Semillero Ventures, LLC • Emily Zack, Farm Operations Manager, Loyola University Retreat and • Lisa Moon, President and CEO, The Global FoodBanking Network Ecology Campus (LUREC) • Shayna Harris, Chief Operating Officer, Farmer’s Fridge • Pamela Hess, Executive Director, Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food • Jim Slama, Founder and President, FamilyFarmed and Agriculture • Mel Coleman, Vice President Strategic Partnership, Niman Ranch • William Burdett, Executive Director, Advocates for Urban Agriculture (AUA) • Elanor Starmer, Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 10:45 am Morning Break 4:10 pm Closing Keynote: Fred Iutzi, President, The Land Institute 11:00 am PANEL: Unlikely Alliances in the Food System 4:20 pm Closing Remarks and Thank you: Moderator: Monica Eng, Reporter, WBEZ Danielle Nierenberg Keynote: David MacLennan, Chairman and CEO, Cargill • Jonathan Pereira, Executive Director, Plant Chicago • David MacLennan, Chairman and CEO, Cargill • Sarah Vared, Interim Director, ReFED • Alesha Black, Director, Global Food and Agriculture Program, Chicago Council on Global Affairs • Patrick O’Neill, CEO, Amp Your Good • Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, President, The World Food Prize WWW.FOODTANK.COM • #FOODTANK 2016 Food Tank Summit 3 SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS Gene Baur Frontera have changed the face of food service at O’Hare International Airport, President and Co-Founder, Farm Sanctuary while Frontera Fresco has brought Frontera flavors to several Macy’s stores and @FarmSanctuary, @GeneBaur Northwestern University. His award-winning Frontera line of salsas, cooking @FarmSanctuary, @GeneBaur sauces and organic chips can be found coast to coast. Gene Baur is co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, and has been hailed Rick and his staff established the Frontera Farmer Foundation in 2003 to as Dzthe conscience of the food movementdz by TIME magazine. He was support small Midwestern farms. Each year, grants are awarded to farmers for a pioneer in undercover investigations and instrumental in passing the first capital improvements to their family farms, encouraging greater production U.S. laws to ban inhumane factory farming practices. Beginning in 1986, he and profitability. To date, the Foundation has awarded 128 grants totaling over has traveled extensively, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses of $1.3 million. In 2007, Bayless and his team launched the Frontera Scholarship, animal agriculture and our cheap food system. Gene’s latest book, Living the a full tuition scholarship that sends a Mexican-American Chicago Public School Farm Sanctuary Life: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Mindfully, Living Longer, student to Kendall College to study culinary arts. In 2007 Rick was awarded and Feeling Better Every Day, was published by Rodale in April 2015. He has a the Humanitarian of the Year by the International Association of Culinary master’s degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University, and is a faculty Professionals for his many philanthropic endeavors. member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Rick has received a great number of James Beard Award nominations in many categories, and he has won seven: Midwest Chef of the Year, National Chef of Rick Bayless the Year, Humanitarian of the Year, Who’s Who of American Food and Drink, Chef and Owner, Frontera Best Podcast, plus two for his cookbooks. @Rick_Bayless