Acting Assistant Secretary Holman’s Travel to Iowa

Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Amy Holman will travel to Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 29-Nov. 1 to attend the World Food Prize Foundation’s Borlaug Dialogue and World Food Prize Laureate Ceremony.  She will reaffirm the Department’s commitment to ensuring food security with our partners around the world and will stress the vital role of the United States and its businesses in continuing innovation to strengthen world food security.

While in Iowa, Acting Assistant Secretary Holman will meet with U.S. agriculture industry leaders on new developments in U.S. agriculture technology.  She will also meet with President of the African Development Bank Group Akinwumi Adesina on food security needs on the continent, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig on Iowa’s agriculture industry, and attend a bilateral meeting with Guyana Secretary of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha.  She will host a panel discussion on women’s access to agricultural technology, the Department’s first event supporting the 2026 International Year of the Woman Farmer.

On Thursday, Oct. 31, Acting Assistant Secretary Holman will meet with the Global Youth Institute and the Greater Des Moines Business Partnership before attending the 2024 World Food Prize Laureate’s Award Ceremony.  She will also conduct meetings with the World Food Prize Foundation.

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