Bill Gates to speak at Global Agricultural Development Initiative Symposium

Today at noon Eastern Standard Time, Bill Gates will speak at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Global Agricultural Development Initiative Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security. Mr. Gates' speech will center on the role of agriculture in international development and the importance of upping the public and political will to support agriculture, especially in the current economic climate.

Other speakers at the symposium include USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack.

The symposium will be live blogged by Mr. Roger Thurow, and will be broadcast on Twitter, as well. To follow the symposium on Twitter, follow @InterActionorg, and @GlobalAgDev and use #GADIsymposium, #hunger, #poverty and #globaldev hashtags.