World Food Prize laureate to be at CSU

World Food Prize Laureate Geoffrey Hawtin is being welcomed by the International Agriculture program in CSU’s College of Agricultural Sciences. (Colorado State University)

Geoffrey Hawtin—an international expert on crop diversity and co-recipient of the 2024 World Food Prize—will visit Colorado State University to meet with students, faculty, staff and community members on Sept. 18 and 19.

Hawtin will deliver a lecture about the relationship between crop diversity and food security beginning at 11:15 a.m. Sept. 18 at the USDA National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, 1111 S. Mason St., in Fort Collins.

He will deliver a lecture and will take part in a panel discussion from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 19 at Denver Botanic Gardens, Sturm Family Auditorium.

PHOTO: World Food Prize Laureate Geoffrey Hawtin is being welcomed by the International Agriculture program in CSU’s College of Agricultural Sciences. (Colorado State University)