3rd annual

U.S. - China Agriculture Roundtable

Global Food Security

rise to the challenge

中美农业圆桌论坛

inspired by three legendary scientists

Norman Borlaug

Norman Borlaug

Father of Green Revolution - Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

Yuan Longping

Yuan Longping 袁隆平

Father of Hybrid Rice - Recipient of World Food Prize

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

American Agricultural Scientist and Inventor

The 2023 U.S.-China Agriculture Roundtable will convene leaders spanning government, business, trade association, nonprofits, education, and think tanks from both countries to focus on the critical global challenge of sustainably producing enough nutritious food to feed the growing population on our planet.

APRIL 4 -13, 2023 · St. Louis, Missouri & Online

2023 年4月4日-13日·圣路易斯,密苏里州及线上

Given the mutual benefit of continued bilateral collaboration in agriculture, we launched the first U.S.-China Agriculture Roundtable in 2021. Thanks to the support and participation of agriculture leaders from both countries, this annual event has grown to be the preeminent bilateral dialogue platform around agriculture, drawing leaders spanning government, trade, business, education, and think tanks from both countries.

Our belief is that U.S.-China cooperation is essential if our planet will be able to successfully deal with the many critical global challenges of our time.

This 3rd annual Roundtable will further strengthen the bi-lateral collaboration and people-to-people friendship around agriculture that have been cultivated through the virtual U.S.-China Agriculture Roundtable in 2021 & 2022, and the hybrid 2022 U.S-China High-Level Agricultural Dialogue.

Supporters & Partners

Sponsors

Advisory Committee

Bunge, ContiGroup Companies, Corteva Agriscience, Smithfield Food, US Grains Council, US Soybean Export Council, Syngenta

Chinese Co-Organizers

China Agricultural Association for International Exchange, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Agriculture University, Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries

2023 U.S. - China Agriculture Roundtable Agenda

Global Food Security

rise to the challenge

中美农业圆桌论坛

April 4, 2023

(Hybrid, with in-person option in St. Louis at Danforth Plant Innovation Center)

Morning

8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CST

Perspectives from Governmental Representatives

Perspectives from Business Leaders

Perspectives from NGOs

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Lunch

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CST

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Afternoon

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. CST

Panel I -Seed and Plant Protection

Panel II - Animal Health

Panel III - Movement of Ag/Food Products

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Cocktail Reception

5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. CST

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Friendship Celebration & Dinner

6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. CST

Think Tank Dialogue

virtual only

April 11, 2023

8:00-11:00 p.m. EST

April 12, 2023

8:00-11:00 a.m. Beijing Time

Agriculture Education Dialogue

virtual only

April 13, 2023

8:00-10:30 p.m. EST

April 14, 2023

8:00-10:30 a.m. Beijing Time

Governor Bob Holden,
USHCA Chairman and CEO Former Governor of Missouri

Gov. Holden

鲍勃·霍顿于2001至2005年间担任密苏里州第53任州长。在当选州长之前，霍顿曾担任过两任密苏里州财政部长和三任密苏里州众议员。

鲍勃·霍顿的一生都在为公众服务。除了担任公职，霍顿也曾为州财政部长James I. Spainhower和Mel Carnahan、美国参议员Thomas F. Eagleton和国会议员Richard A. Gephardt效力过。

霍顿州长在任期间，他曾担任中西部州长协会主席;开设了密苏里州在中国的第一个贸易办事处;成立了密苏里州第一个拉美裔外展委员会;将密苏里州在女性领导职位的排名从第41位拉升至第5位;任命了200多名非裔美国人担任重要领导职务;建立了该州第一个青年内阁;并在密苏里州建造了第一座获得LEED认证的州办公大楼。

鲍勃·霍顿目前是美国全球领导联盟（U.S. Global Leadership Coalition）的密苏里州联合主席，同时也是全国有色人种协会（NAACP）密苏里州分会的执行董事会成员。自2005年卸任公职后，霍顿创立了霍顿公共政策论坛，并在韦伯斯特大学担任了10年的教授。在韦伯斯特大学期间，他帮助建立了在密苏里州圣路易斯韦伯斯特大学的第一个孔子学院。

40多年来，鲍勃·霍顿一直是美国退伍军人协会密苏里州孩童项目的积极参与者。在他的领导下，第一批中国学生代表团成为这一历史性项目的参与者。自那第一批代表团的参与，他一直在努力推动中国学生前往密苏里州以及密苏里学生前往中国的学生代表团，并计划发起来自其他州的代表团。

鲍勃·霍顿认为，美中两国的长期经济成就必须建立在相互尊重、明确理解和坦诚对话的基础上。这点可以通过扩大我们的文化联系，创造更多的教育伙伴关系，以及为两国成功的企业铸造机会的桥梁来实现。

Gov. Holden was recently inducted to the Missouri Public Affairs Hall of Fame. Watch his honoree video here.

About Governor Holden

Ambassador Kenneth Quinn,
President Emeritus, the World Food Prize Strategic Advisor & Member of US Heartland China Association

Ambassador Quinn

Dr. Kenneth M. Quinn, former U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, assumed the leadership of the World Food Prize Foundation on January 1, 2000, following his retirement from the State Department after a 32 year career in the Foreign Service.

Inspired by the vision of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, the founder of the World Food Prize, Ambassador Quinn has endeavored to build this annual $250,000 award into “the Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture.” Held each October in Des Moines on or around World Food Day (October 16), the World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony, “Borlaug Dialogue” international symposium and Global Youth Institute have grown in size and stature under his direction.

With the support of the John Ruan family, Dr. Quinn has led the campaign which successfully raised over $30 million to restore the historic Des Moines Public Library and transform it into the World Food Prize Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Hall of Laureates. He provided the personal leadership to have the building designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification, the highest possible level of energy efficiency and resource conservation.

During his diplomatic career, Ken Quinn served: as a Rural Development advisor in the Mekong Delta; on the National Security Council staff at the White House; as Narcotics Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Vienna; for four years as Chairman of the U.S. Inter-agency Task Force on POW/MIAs; and as Director of Iowa SHARES, the humanitarian campaign that sent Iowa doctors, nurses, medical supplies and food to starving Cambodian refugees.

A fluent speaker of Vietnamese, Dr. Quinn acted as interpreter for President Gerald Ford at the White House and personally negotiated the first ever entry by U.S. personnel into a Vietnamese prison to search for U.S. POW/MIAs. He was also a member of the first U.S. team to gain entry to a former Soviet prison in Russia.

Ambassador Quinn, a graduate of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, has a M.A. in Political Science from Marquette University and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Maryland. He and his wife Le Son have three adult children.

About Ambassador Quinn

Elizabeth Knup,
China Director, Ford Foundation

Elizabeth Knup

Elizabeth Knup is the foundation's regional director in China, overseeing all grant making in the country from Ford's Beijing office. Prior to joining Ford in 2013, she served simultaneously as chief representative of Pearson PLC, one of the world’s foremost education and publishing companies, and as president of Pearson Education in China.

Having dedicated her career to developing stronger ties between China and the rest of the world in the education, nonprofit, and business sectors, Elizabeth started out at the National Committee on US-China Relations where, from 1988-98, she focused on expanding educational opportunities and strengthening social institutions in Beijing. In 1998, she moved to Nanjing and served as the American co-director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, overseeing the establishment of the center’s Institute for International Relations and a summer immersion Chinese language program. Later, she joined Kamsky Associates, a business strategy and investment advisory firm in Beijing.

Elizabeth is on the board of the National Committee on US-China Relations. She has served on the boards of numerous nonprofits, including the Institute for Sustainable Communities, the Capacity Building and Assessment Center, and the Global Environment Institute.

Elizabeth has a master's degree from the University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies and a bachelor's degree in political science from Middlebury College.

About Ms. Knup
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