Agenda

Reflecting on 20 Years of Measuring Household Food Security

8:00 - 8:30: Check-in

8:30 - 8:35: Welcome

Jay Variyam, Director of the Food Economics Division, Economic Research Service (ERS), USDA

8:35 - 8:45: Remarks from USDA's Research, Education, and Economics (REE) Leadership

Catherine Woteki, Under Secretary for REE, USDA

8:45 - 8:55: Remarks from USDA's Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services (FNCS) Leadership

Kevin Concannon, Under Secretary for FNCS, USDA

8:55 - 9:05: Overview of USDA Food Security Statistics

Alisha Coleman-Jensen, Sociologist, ERS, USDA

9:05 - 9:20: Overview of Selected ERS Food Security Research Studies

Mary Bohman, Administrator, ERS, USDA

9:20 - 9:35: Overview of Selected Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Food Security Research Studies

Rich Lucas, Deputy Administrator for Policy Support, FNS, USDA

9:35 - 9:50: Break

9:50 - 11:05: Panel Discussion by "Pioneers" in the Development of the Food Security Measure

Mark Prell, Economist, ERS, USDA, and Moderator

This panel will include FNS and ERS staff who were instrumental in developing the food security measure, as well as outside researchers who played key roles. Panelists will discuss the history of the measure, how it came to fruition, and other related issues. Panelists will also be asked to reflect on what they anticipated the measure would become during its development over 20 years ago. The panelists' brief opening remarks (5 minutes each) will be followed by informal discussions among panelists and questions and answers from the audience.

Panelists:

Margaret Andrews, former Economist, ERS, USDA

Gary Bickel, former Economist, FNS, USDA

Steven Carlson, former Associate Administrator for Policy Support, FNS, USDA

Mark Nord, Voices of the Hungry Project, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and former Sociologist, ERS, USDA

Christine Olson, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University

Lynn Parker, Institute of Medicine

11:05 - 12:15: Panel Discussion—Advances in Food Security Research Over 2 Decades

Matthew Rabbitt, Economist, ERS, USDA, and Moderator

This panel of researchers from different perspectives will be asked to discuss what they perceive as the most important developments in food security measurement and research. What are the important discoveries? How has research influenced policy? What would you like the food security measure and food security literature to be like in 10 or 20 years? The panelists' brief opening remarks (5 minutes each) will be followed by informal discussions among panelists and questions and answers from the audience.

Panelists:

Ronette Briefel, Mathematica Policy Research

Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois

Colleen Heflin, Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri

Jay Hirschman, Director of the Special Nutrition Research & Analysis Division, FNS, USDA

Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Yale School of Public health

12:15 - 1:15: Box Lunch at ERS

1:15 - 2:30: Panel Discussion—Anti-Hunger Stakeholders on the Impact of Having a Food Security Measure

Christian Gregory, Economist, ERS, USDA, and Moderator

Anti-hunger advocates will be asked to discuss how the development of a national food security measure has affected their work. How has their work changed over the last few decades? How do they use the food security measure and statistics to advance their work? The panelists' brief opening remarks (5 minutes each) will be followed by informal discussions among panelists and questions and answers from the audience.

Panelists:

Joel Berg, Executive Director, New York City Coalition Against Hunger

Ed Cooney, former Special Assistant on Nutrition to USDA Secretary Dan Glickman

Tianna Gaines-Turner, Witnesses to Hunger

Todd Post, Bread for the World Institute

Kori Reed, Vice President, Cause & Foundation, ConAgra Foods

James D. Weill, President, Food Research and Action Center

2:30 -2:45: Break

2:45 - 4:00: Where is Food Security Measurement and Research Heading?

Alisha Coleman-Jensen, Sociologist, ERS, USDA, and Moderator

2:45 - 3:00: Activities of National Hunger Commission

Mariana Chilton, School of Public Health, Drexel University

Robert Doar, American Enterprise Institute

3:00 - 3:15: Emerging Measurement Needs and Opportunities

Edward A. Frongillo, University of South Carolina

3:15 - 3:30: What Do We Need to Study and How?

James P. Ziliak, University of Kentucky

3:30 -3:45: Experiential Food Security Measures Go Around the World

Mark Nord, Voices of the Hungry Project, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

3:45 - 4:00: Closing Thoughts and Remarks

Rich Lucas, Deputy Administrator for Policy Support, FNS, USDA