The huge challenge of feeding the world’s fast-growing population – and its ethical, scientific, economic and political implications – will be the subject of a series of major public debates beginning in London next week.
Entitled “Feeding Seven Billion”, a figure which the global population is now believed to exceed, the series will give members of the public an opportunity to hear from, and interrogate politicians, policy-makers, researchers and academics on the general theme of food security over the course of three separate debates.
The first event, on “Biotechnology, Intellectual Property and 21st century crops”, will be held at King’s Place, London N1 at 7pm on Monday, 26 November.
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Image: Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp, on the Kenya-Somalia border. The Horn of Africa frequently experiences severe drought and hundreds of thousands of people have trekked to Dadaab seeking food, water, shelter and safety.
Credit: The Alliance to End Hunger, via Flickr Creative Commons.
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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