A Grand Challenges Seminar

“Food is the new oil and land is the new gold” Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute

The planet’s poorest 2 billion people spend over 50% percent of their income on food. Global food prices have doubled in the past decade. Rising temperatures, changing rainfall, eroding soils and shrinking water reserves are threatening the world’s largest food production regions. Climate change is set to hit 2.5 degrees by 2100. Population is on course to reach 10 billion by 2050. With governments in the Middle East and Africa teetering as a result of price spikes, and expanding markets sustaining one climate shock after another, food is quickly becoming the hidden driver of world politics.

Yet food-related Armageddon has been predicted before. And Malthus’ prophesies have not yet come to pass. In the past, industrialisation and the Green Revolution have staved off mass famine. What will it be today? Laboratory-grown protein? GM crops? Sustainable agriculture? Edible insects?

Join us for our panel discussion on “Devouring the Earth. How to feed 10 billion in the face of climate change”. Leading figures from the world of politics, business, science and activism will join together to discuss the challenges and solutions of managing our food systems in the 21st century. Book tickets for what promises to be a lively debate and the opportunity to put your questions to the panel!

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