2nd International Conference on Global Food Security
The Second International Conference on Global Food Security aims to deliver state-of-the-art analysis, inspiring visions and innovative methods arising from research in a wide range of disciplines.
The conference seeks to help understand behavioral, biophysical, economic, institutional, political, social and technological drivers of current and future global food security. It will address the food system activities of processing, distributing and consuming food, as well as food production from crop, livestock, tree, freshwater and marine sources; the availability, access, utilization and stability dimensions of food security; and the synergies and trade-offs between economic, environmental, health and social objectives and outcomes.
Thereby, the conference will address a range across disciplines and spatiotemporal scales of analysis to span the drivers, activities and outcomes of food systems to encompass both contextualized and holistic treatments of the broad challenge of food security.
Bruce Campbell, Program Director at CCAFS will be a keynote speaker at the conference. Presentation details:
Title: Reducing risks to food systems from climate change
Date and time: Monday, 12 October 2015, 10:45-11:15, Plenary Session 2
The conference will be held at Cornell University from October 11th to 14th.
Conference themes:
- Global and local analyses of food security and its drivers
- Policies to improve local and global food security
- Sustainable intensification of food production systems
- Urbanization, food value chains, and the sustainable, secure sourcing of food
- Competing demands and tradeoffs for land and water resources
- Technological breakthroughs to help feed 9+ billion
- Reducing food loss and waste
- Reducing risks to food production and distribution from climate change
- Consumer behavior, nutritional security and food assistance programs
- Business-science cooperation to advance food security
- The agriculture-nutrition-health nexus
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