The Farm Foundation has released the winners of their competition today, Oct. 6, 2009. “An essay that argues for a principle-based, rather than a program-based approach to public policy development has been selected as the top entry in Farm Foundation's 30-Year Challenge Policy Competition. A total of $20,000 in prize money was awarded in the competition.”The competition brought forth numerous essay with promising policy options that address both agriculture and food system challenges that were outline in the Farm Foundation’s report, The 30-Year Challenge: Agriculture’s Strategic Role in Feeding and Fueling a Growing World.
"It is our intent that the winning entries will contribute to constructive and deliberative debate of the policies that may be needed to meet the challenges ahead," said Farm Foundation President Neil Conklin. "However, Farm Foundation does not endorse or advocate any of the concepts presented in these entries. Farm Foundation has a 76-year history of objectivity. We do not lobby or advocate positions. The competition entries are no exception."
Conklin added that both private and public decision makers to review the proposals and put them to work in light of the current challenges facing agriculture and food systems.
“The top entry in the competition, Three Decades Hence-Thinking About Global Agricultural Resource Allocation Policies, was written by William C. Motes, Ph.D. Dr. Motes, who submitted the entry as a private individual, is chief economist at Informa Economics. This entry, which will receive the $5,000 overall prize, also won the challenge category of global markets and recession.”
To read more about the competition and to see who the other winners are, click here.
Posted: 10/07/09
