Dr. Robert Paarlberg will be presenting "The Culture War in Agriculture: Who's Winning?". Dr. Paarlberg's principal research interest are international food and agricultural and policy. He has been a member of the Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the National Research Council of the National Academies, and a consultant to USAID, IFPRI, COMESA, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank. His 2008 book, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa, from Harvard University Press, explained why poor African farmers are denied access to productive technologies. His 2010 book, from Oxford University Press, is titled Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know. He is currently completing a study of U.S. agricultural development assistance policy for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Robert Paarlberg recieved his B.A. from Carleton College and his PhD in Government from Harvard University.