EVENT CANCELLED: Café Sci Cambridge: Obscure Crops to Save the World

Please note: this event has been CANCELLED

Tue 11 August 2020

Online - Zoom

In highland Ethiopia, a giant banana relative provides the staple food for 20 million people. It’s versatility and resilience, in a country more commonly known for food insecurity, has earned it the title of ‘the Tree Against Hunger’. But outside of Ethiopia, this remarkable plant is barely known.

The Ethiopian banana is not alone. Around the world, more than 30,000 plant species have documented uses, yet day to day we exploit just a handful of these. What does this simplification of our domesticated flora mean for humanity, faced with impending climatic and environmental challenges over the coming century? What will we be eating a century from now?

Join Dr James Borrell from Kew Gardens, to explore this important topic. Part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2020.

Cost: free