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Global FoodSecurity
Sustainable Futures Challenge27 April 2015Dr Will SimonsonCoordinator, GFSI
Global FoodSecurity
a Strategic Research Initiative of the University of CambridgeNeil Palmer (CIAT)
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Global FoodSecurity
Present challenges:• One in eight people are chronically under-nourished•We are eating into the planet’s natural capital
Future challenges:• Population set to expand to > 9 billion by 2050• Economic development raises living standards but also
resource consumption• Climate change effects on agricultural production are
uncertain
Why Global Food Security?
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Global FoodSecurity The challenges
• Balancing future demand and supply sustainably• Addressing the threat of future volatility
in the food system• Ending hunger• Meeting the challenges of a low
emissions world• Maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem
services while feeding the world
The Government Office for Science, 2011, Foresight: The Future of Food and Farming
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Global FoodSecurity Food system ACTIVITIES
ProducingProcessing & Packaging
Distributing and retailingConsuming
SOCIOECONOMIC DRIVERSChanges in: Demographics, Economics, Socio-political context, Cultural context, Science & Technology
Environmental feedbackse.g. water quality, GHGs
Food system
Socioeconomic feedbackse.g. livelihoods, consumer advocacy
DRIVERS’interactions
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE DRIVERSChanges in: Land cover & soils, Atmosphere, Climate, Water availability, Nutrient cycling, Biodiversity, Sea currents & salinity, Sea level
Food system OUTCOMESContributing to: Food Security,
Environmental Security, andOther societal interests
Food Utilisation
Food Availability
Food Access
Social welfare
Environ. capital
Based on Ericksen 2008, Global Environmental Change
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Global FoodSecurity Research themes
• Plant biology: understanding plant development, hybrid vigour and photosynthesis to breed high-yielding crops in changing climates• Infectious diseases: control of plant disease, influenza-
resistant strains of poultry, food-borne zoonoses• Political economy of hunger and food supply: drawing
lessons from historical analyses of famine, role of political structures in the food system, archaeological evidence for innovation
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Global FoodSecurity Research themes
• Supply chains: innovation in food supply, evaluating how food crises are driven by environmental, demographic, economic or political factors
• Food and health: metabolism, improving nutrition, reducing diet-related disease
• Food landscapes: biodiversity, land-sparing, water and ecosystems services, soil management
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Global FoodSecurity Research themes
• Modelling: consequences of competing demands on land and sea for food, biodiversity, water, energy, climate stability
• Global governance: BRIC countries, international politics, rising powers
• Land resources and regulatory influences: economics of land use change, impact of demographic & climate change on future policy drivers
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Global FoodSecurity
• Increasing the quantity and quality of food security relevant research• Influencing the future research agenda• Communicating about food security,
including education and outreach• Supporting activities of students and early
career researchers
Key objectives & activities
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Global FoodSecurity
The fifth seminar of the Food Futures in the World series 2015
Can GM crops help to feed the world? Wednesday 6 May 2015
Professor Sir Brian HeapResearch Associate, Centre for Development Studies, University of Cambridge, former Master of St. Edmund’s College, and Project Leader, Biosciences for Farming in Africa 1.00 pm in the Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site
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Global FoodSecurity
Global Food Security to 2050
A seminar of the Tropical Agriculture Association (TAA) supported by the Global Food Security Initiative, CambPlants and The Humanitarian Centre
14th May 2015, 2-6pm
Dr Bojana Bazjelj (Cambridge University Engineering Dept)
Prof Amir Kassam (University of Reading & FAO)
Dr Gottlieb Basch (University of Evora, Portugal)
Hughes Hall, Pavilion Room, Wollaston Road, Cambridge CB1 2EW
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