The Ecology and Conservation Studies Society Free Public Lecture - Food, climate change, health, animal welfare and development
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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Food, climate change, health, animal welfare and development
Free public lecture part of the series Food Security - maintaining resources in the age of globalisation of trade.
World population projections show that there will be many more mouths to feed in coming decades. This need will follow the actual population trend, but meeting it depends on many other factors. Food production will continue to depend upon half a dozen staple food plants. There is a potential fragility in maintaining production that depends upon land availability, soil fertility, water supplies, freedom from pests, appropriate technologies and suitable crop varieties. Equally important is whether the primary crops are eaten by us, or used less efficiently for meat production. Food can be lost in storage and transportation. In an increasingly urbanised world, some see the solutions in energy-intensive, industrial scale farming, fisheries and food distribution, whilst others advocate smaller scale, local activity. Much of this will be affected by climate change. This lecture series explores the issues and tries to answer some of the questions.
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Ecology and Conservation Studies Society