How do we Feed the World?

Global Food Security IRC (Cambridge University)

Find out about the technologies, ancient and modern, that make it possible to feed the world at this University of Cambridge event.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

REGISTRATIONS FOR THIS EVENT ARE FULL, BUT THERE IS LIKELY TO BE SOME SPACE FOR WALK-INS. PLEASE DO COME ALONG AND WE WILL TRY TO FIT YOU IN.Our ability to feed ourselves is essential to the survival of humanity. This event will explore some key aspects of the food system that puts food on our plates every day.You’ll hear short presentations from expert speakers on technologies ranging from ancient methods of preserving food to modern gene sequencing. We’ll hear about how wild plants have been transformed into cultivated crops, and how water, that most precious resource in our warming world, is managed. Some of the technologies discussed will be controversial; some are so ancient we take them for granted; some increase yields but threaten the natural environment; some are accessible to the poorest people in the world; others aren’t. The presentations will be followed by a Q&amp;A and an audience vote on which has made the biggest and most sustainable contribution to supplying the world with food. Which one will you vote for?Speakers:<a href="https://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-tina-barsby-obe" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Professor Tina Barsby OBE, Honorary Professor of Agricultural Botany, University of Cambridge</a><a href="https://www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-shailaja-fennell" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Professor Shailaja Fennell, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge</a><a href="https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/people/inanna-hamati-ataya/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya, Principal Research Associate, CRASSH, University of Cambridge </a><a href="https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/directory/mkj12" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Professor Martin Jones, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge </a><a href="https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/giles-oldroyd" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">P﻿rofessor Giles Oldroyd, Director of the Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge.</a>Chair: <a href="https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/howard-griffiths" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Professor Howard Griffiths, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge</a>T﻿his event is organised by <a href="https://www.globalfood.cam.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cambridge Global Food Security</a>, an Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the <a href="https://climatechangefestival.zero.cam.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival 2022</a>.Image by Ashwini Chaudhary Monty from Unsplash.

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