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"A new foundation launches today with the ambition to reform the global food system, enabling us to feed a growing global population with healthy food from a healthy planet."

Reverend David Beckmann, who was awarded the 2010 World Food Prize, said that the One Health approach “just makes sense” in his speech entitled “One Health: World Health through Collaboration”, delivered. October 12, 2011, in conjunction with the 25th anniversary World Food Prize events in Des Moines, Iowa. Reverend Beckmann's lecture is the first of the One Health Lectureship Series established in the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine in honor of Dr. Roger Mahr, CEO of the One Health Commission. Rev. Beckmann is also an economist and a laureate of the World Food Prize.