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How do we feed the world?
Fri 14 October 2022
Department of Plant Sciences
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&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:
Professor Tina Barsby OBE, Honorary Professor of Agricultural Botany, University of Cambridge
Professor Shailaja Fennell, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya, Principal Research Associate, CRASSH, University of Cambridge
Professor Martin Jones, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
P?rofessor Giles Oldroyd, Director of the Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge.
Chair:
Professor Howard Griffiths, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Cost: free
Enquiries and booking
Please note that booking is required for this event.
This event is part of the Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival 2022 for full details of the programme please visit: https://climatechangefestival.zero.cam.ac.uk/
Enquiries: Abigail Youngman Website Email: coordinator@globalfood.cam.ac.uk