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Sir Gordon Conway, Professor for International Development, Imperial College London
Thursday 29 April 2010, 17:15-18:30
Can We Feed the World?
- 👤 Speaker: Sir Gordon Conway, Professor for International Development, Imperial College London
- 📅 Date & Time: Thursday 29 April 2010, 17:15 - 18:30
- 📍 Venue: Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF
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Sarah Greaves
Abstract
The rise in food prices of 2008 was followed by a fall, but prices are still high and indeed rising again. As a result there are now over 1 billion chronically hungry people in the world. Additional to this challenge, we have to increase food production by 70-100% by 2050. There is much high level rhetoric and, at the grass roots, many laudable projects, but we need agricultural development that takes ideas and experience to scale. I believe we need a new ‘Doubly Green Revolution’ involving innovative and imaginative applications of technologies and financing.
Series This talk is part of the Environment on the Edge series.
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