Food in 2050: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion
Evan Fraser

February 25, 2016, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
The Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University

Wolf Performance Hall - Central Library
251 Dundas St.
London N6A 6H9
Canada

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Creating food systems capable of sustainably, equitably, and nutritiously feeding 9 billion people while dealing with climate change is one of the 21st century’s “Grand Challenges”. Meeting this challenge is about more than just producing enough – indeed, we already produce enough for everyone, but more than a billion are overweight while almost a billion under nourished. To help feed the future we must not only produce the right kinds of food, but must also innovate on food processing and ingredients, make diets more nutritious, cut back on waste/emissions, reduce the amount of water and chemicals we use, and ensure that small scale farmers around the world have access to markets. To explore these issues, this talk will first present the factors that are driving changes in our food systems. Second, this talk will explore where some of these trends are heading.

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