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Please see herebelow an announcement for the *3rd* International Global
Food Security Conference, 8-11 October 2017, Cape Town, South Africa.

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*Conference Themes:*

   - Culture and politics in food security
   - Social protection for food security
   - Sustainable intensification of food production systems
   - Transitions, urbanization and food security
   - The food-water-energy nexus
   - Plant, animal and bio-engineering science for food security
   - Reducing food losses and waste
   - Reducing risks to food production and distribution from climate change
   - Nutritional security
   - Business-science-community cooperation to advance food security
   - Public policy for food security
   - Food sovereignty and democratization of food systems
   - Women the key to sustainable food and nutrition security

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The conference will address the food system activities of production
(crops, livestock) or harvesting (freshwater and marine sources),
processing, distribution systems and consumption behavior and the synergies
and trade-offs between economic, environmental, health and social
objectives and outcomes. It will provide a cross cutting view of multiple
disciplines and spatiotemporal scales of analysis to span the drivers,
activities and outcomes of food systems to reflect on the broad challenge
of food security.
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We welcome your participation at the 3rd International Conference on Global
Food Security and look forward to receiving your abstract.

*Conference Chairs*

*Lise Korsten*, *University of Pretoria, South Africa*
*Julian May*, *University of the Western Cape, South Africa*
*Frans Swanepoel*, *University of Pretoria, South Africa*
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