The U.S. Grains Council announced that the Honorable Hirotaka Akamatsu, Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, will deliver a special address at the upcoming Global Food Security Symposium. Minister Akamatsu joins U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack in headlining the event.

The Global Food Security Symposium will be held April 7, 2010, in Tokyo. The event will gather U.S. and Japanese government, agribusiness and biotechnology leaders for a first-ever, day-long examination of how international cooperation, policy and technology can be used to feed a burgeoning world population. 

The symposium is part of the “Partners in Agriculture� events, taking place between March and June 2010, organized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service. The U.S. Grains Council is sponsoring the Symposium.

For more information about the “Partners in Agriculture� events, visit www.partners-in-agriculture.org.