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The 2nd International Conference on
Global Food Security aims to deliver
state-of-the-art analysis, inspiring visions and
innovative research methods arising from research in any
of a wide range of disciplines. Join us in this exciting
opportunity to ensure that the best science is garnered
to support the emergence of the Sustainable Development
Goals.
Achieving global food security whilst reconciling
demands on the environment is the greatest challenge
faced by mankind. By 2050 we will need to feed at least
9 billion people. The urgency of the issue has led to
huge scientific strides forwards, making it difficult to
keep up with the rapidly expanding volume of scientific
research.
We aim to better understand economic,
social, biophysical, technological and institutional
drivers of current and future global food security. The
conference will address food production, processing and
distribution, the availability, access, utilization and
stability dimensions of food security, and the
trade-offs between competing environmental, economic or
social objectives and outcomes.
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Call for Abstracts
Submit
abstracts by 8 May 2015
Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are
invited on the conference topics and should be submitted
using the online abstract submission system.
Topics for parallel sessions will
include:
- Global and local analyses of food security and its
drivers
- Enabling policies for local and global food
security
- Sustainable intensification of food production
systems
- Urbanization, food value chains and food security
- Managing food-feed-biofuels competition
- Technological breakthroughs to help feed 9
billion
- Land sparing, land sharing and trade-offs in
balancing competing demands for agricultural lands
- Reducing loss and waste
- Reducing the risks to agriculture from climate
change
- Nutritional security and food assistance programs
- Gender- and generation- differentiated food
security concerns
- Sustainable sourcing of food products
- Business-science cooperation to advance food
security
Abstract submission "
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For further information on submitting an abstract and to
sign up for email updates visit:
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| Important Dates |
8 May
2015
Abstract Submission Deadline |
14 August
2015
Author Registration and Early-bird
Registration Deadline |
Scientific Committee
Derek
Byerlee
Independent Researcher,
Australia/USA
Ken
Cassman
University of Nebraska,
USA
David
Dawe
Agricultural Development
Economics Division, FAO, Thailand
Sheryl
Hendriks
University of Pretoria,
South Africa
Jon
Hutton
UNEP World Conservation
Monitoring Centre, UK
John Ingram
University of
Oxford, UK
Segenet Kelemu
International Centre of Insect
Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kenya
Peter
Timmer
Harvard University, USA
and Australian National University, Australia
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