How to Avert a Food Crisis: Panel Discussion
Channel: New America
Date: 2012-04-23

How to Avert a Food Crisis: Panel Discussion

This panel discussion was recorded at the Future Tense event: Feeding the World While the Earth Cooks, which was held in Washington, DC on April 12th, 2012

Hans Herren - @millinniuminst
President, Millennium Institute
Co-chair, International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science & Technology
1995 World Food Prize Recipient
 
In conversation with:
 
Ed Carr - @edwardrcarr
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow serving as a climate science advisor on
the Climate Change Team at USAID
Author, Delivering Development: Globalization's Shoreline and the Road to a
Sustainable Future
 
Moderator:
David Biello - @dbiello
Associate Editor for environment and energy, Scientific American

When today's toddlers are parents themselves, they will face an agricultural crisis. The world population will reach 9 billion. A growing global middle class will demand more food. And climate change will leave farmers holding seeds that won't sprout. By 2050, will our global appetite outgrow our agricultural capacity? We held an event to find out how everyone—growers, technologists, governments, business leaders, and carbon-conscious consumers—will be part of the solution.

http://www.newamerica.net/events/2012/feeding_the_world