Douglas Bereuter to Speak at Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security

WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Douglas Bereuter, president and CEO of The Asia Foundation, speaks today in Washington about international food security, as part of a formal, invitation-only response to the U.S. Agency for International Development's updated Feed the Future Guide, a global hunger and food security strategy. A selected discussant, Mr. Bereuter makes his remarks during the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security, organized by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and attended by leaders from the Obama administration, Congress, and business, policy, NGO, and international organization communities.

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Mr. Bereuter speaks on a panel that includes Rosa DeLauro, member; U.S. House of Representatives, and Cheryl Mills, chief of staff, counselor, Office of the Secretary; U.S. Department of State.

"There remains a frightening synergy among lackluster agricultural productivity in much of the developing world, the rising cost of food, and extreme poverty," said Mr. Bereuter ahead of the symposium. "The U.S. Government's global hunger and food security initiative underscores that more than one billion people (nearly one-sixth of the world's population) suffer from chronic hunger. And, each year, more than 3.5 million children die from under-nutrition. Hunger robs the poor of a healthy and productive life and stunts the mental and physical development of the next generation."

Mr. Bereuter served 26 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he chaired the Asia-Pacific Subcommittee and was Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. On February 1, 2010, he announced he will retire from his leadership position at The Asia Foundation in September 2010.

ABOUT THE ASIA FOUNDATION

The Asia Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to the development of a peaceful, prosperous, just, and open Asia-Pacific region. The Foundation supports programs in Asia that help improve governance, law, and civil society; women's empowerment; economic reform and development; and international relations. Drawing on more than 50 years of experience in Asia, the Foundation collaborates with private and public partners to support leadership and institutional development, exchanges, and policy research.

With 18 offices throughout Asia, an office in Washington, D.C., and its headquarters in San Francisco, the Foundation addresses these issues on both a country and regional level. In 2009, the Foundation provided more than $86 million in program support and distributed nearly one million books and journals valued at over $43 million.

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