Tuesday, March 22, 2011

How to feed 9 billion people: the future of food and farming

Last week we discussed a session from the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting on the fate of the oceans. Today, we'll look at a related panel, organized by the UK's Government Office of Science and moderated by Sir John Beddington, the UK's Chief Science Advisor, which covered the "Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and Choices for Global Sustainability." Joining him were Charles Godfray from the University of Oxford; Shenggen Fan of the International Food Policy Research Institute; and incoming AAAS President Nina Fedoroff, from Pennsylvania State University. 

With the global population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, many questions about food security remain unanswered, and this panel, along with a recent UK government report, seek to provide some of those answers.

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