Global Minnesota

World Food Day - Voices from the Frontline

World Food Day - Regenerative Agriculture

World Food Day - Closing remarks by Mark Ritchie

World Food Day 2020

World Food Day - Food Safety and Security in the Midst of Covid-19 and the Climate Crisis

Minnesota: Leading the Way to the Future of Food with the MBOLD Coalition

• Jeff Harmening, Chairman and CEO, General Mills
• Stephanie Lundquist, Executive Vice President and President of Food and Beverage, Target
• Sonya Roberts, President and Group Leader, Salt Group, Cargill
• Joan Gabel, President, University of Minnesota
• Moderator: Angela Davis, MPR
• Additional remarks by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz; Peter Frosch, CEO, GREATER MSP; and JoAnne Berkenkamp, Managing Director, MBOLD

SDGs Working Together to Achieve Zero Hunger

Presenting: Jeffrey Sachs, President, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University

Introduction by Paurvi Bhatt, President, Medtronic Foundation, Advisory Council, Impact 2030

Working Together for a World Without Hunger

Presenting: David Beasley, Executive Director, United Nations Food Programme – the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Exhibit Opening of “When Minnesota Fed the Children of Europe”

During World War I, many people in Europe faced starvation due to the German occupation and British blockade. In response, the Commission for Relief in Belgium was created to help feed children and mothers in Belgium and northern France. More than half of the food aid that went to Europe was wheat and wheat flour, much of it coming from the farmers and flour mills of Minnesota. This hunger relief effort grew to become the largest humanitarian effort in history, feeding more than 150 million Europeans from France to Russia between 1914 and 1923.

In return, children from Belgium sent letters of gratitude to American children. A selection of these letters has been translated and used to create a powerful exhibit that has been shown across the United States.

Join us for the virtual opening of this special exhibit in Minnesota.

Presented in partnership with the Consulate General of Belgium in New York City, the Embassy of Belgium, the French American Chamber of Commerce of Minnesota, the Mall of America, Wafels & Dinges, and Wallonia-Brussels International (WBI).

The exhibit will be available for viewing at the Mall of America during the month of October and is presented as part of Global Minnesota’s World Food Day activities.

Global Minnesota- What’s New in the New NAFTA

Global Minnesota- What’s New in the New NAFTA

SDG Roundtable: Fall 2020

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the world’s best plan to build a better world for people and our planet by 2030. These goals recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, equality, and job opportunities while tackling climate change and working to preserve our ocean and forests.

Hear from Peg Thomas, Executive Director at the Sundance Family Foundation, and Tim Roman, Co-Founder & CEO of Ecotone Analytics GBC, about measuring and presenting the SDG-impacts on the work of the Sundance Family Foundations’ Earn and Learn Program.

About the Speakers

Peg Thomas is the Executive Director at the Sundance Family Foundation and manages the Foundation’s operations and initiatives, provides strategic program guidance to the board, mentors Sundance college interns, and provides both grants management and technical support to grantees. Peg holds an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, an MS in Therapeutic Recreation and Administration from the University of Minnesota, an MPP in Business from the Carlson School of Business, and a BS in Music Therapy also from University of Minnesota.

Tim Roman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ecotone Analytics GBC. Tim has an MBA from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, where he studied integrative leadership and stakeholder collaboration for social and environmental impact. He has consulting experience in business modeling, organizational design, and process improvement for social enterprise, as well as 12 years of experience in IT, from coding to department management.