Events

International Food Security Symposium Series:

REGISTRATION COMING SOON: Ninth Annual International Food Security Symposium: “Cultivating a New Vision for International Food Security in ACES” – April 15 – 16, 2026

Eighth Annual International Food Security Symposium: “Food Systems for Humans and Wildlife” – October 17-18, 2024

Seventh Annual International Food Security Symposium: Ensuring Food Security in the Tropics Through Livestock Genetic Improvement. Co-sponsored by the Department of Animal Sciences – April 4-5, 2023

Sixth Annual International Food Security Symposium: Comparative Extension: Perspectives from the field. Co-sponsored by University of Illinois Extension. – October 11-12, 2021

Fifth Annual International Food Security Symposium: Building Institutional Capacity for Food Security – April 2-3, 2019

Fourth Annual International Food Security Symposium: Envisioning R&D Strategies for Meeting the Demand– April 2018

Third Annual International Food Security at Illinois (IFSI) Symposium: Commercial Agriculture in the Tropical Environments – April 2017

Second Annual International Food Security Symposium: Using Big Data to Improve International Food Security – March 2016

Food Systems for International Food Security Symposium – Feb. 2015

Other Events:

Right to Food Seminar Series – Fall 2017

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack – 2015

Dr. Jimmy Smith – IFSI lecture series October 2016

Professor Emeritus Gerald Nelson – Inaugural IFSI lecture Sept. 2014

Office of International Programs Lectures and Events