June 29, 2010 10:00AM
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5:00PM
Sustainable Food Systems - Food for All Forever
The right technological solutions combined with the right policy directions for the future can effectively contribute to a sustainable and equitable global food system. A new global food system should assure that everybody has access to sufficient food and that poverty should be reduced significantly without doing damage to the natural environment.
The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, ATV, and the international Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences, CAETS, hereby invite you to Copenhagen to participate in an international conference on 29 June 2010. ATV wishes to facilitate an open debate, a free exchange of ideas and discussion of new future-oriented solutions. ATV aims to bring universities, industry, agriculture, NGOs and GOs together. Our joint challenge is to identify the real problems and the effective answers -
which at the same time - will increase food production, reduce poverty and hunger and reduce over-exploitation of natural resources.
There will be four plenary, interactive solution sessions:
• Looking towards 2050 and beyond Income, distribution, population, food security, natural resources and climate
• Reforming the food production system Molecular biology, agro-ecological methods, aquaculture, land and water efficiency
• Rethinking the food processing chain Infrastructure, distribution, energy efficiency, recycling, packaging and storage facilities
• Moving towards economic incentives, improved governance and full costing Institutions, earmarking of payment, green taxes, ecosystem services, market-orientation and policy reforms
Confirmed speakers
• President Karl Almås, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Norway
• President Marion Guilou, French national Institute for Agricultural Research, INRA , France
• Chairman Thomas Harttung, International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, ICROFS
• Chief Economist and Senior Vice President Justin Yifu Lin, The World Bank
• Professor Robert L. Paarlberg, Harvard University, USA
• Minister for Development Policy Søren Pind, MP, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
• Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University, USA
• Chairman Thomas Rosswall, Challenge Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, CCAFS
• Director General Shenggen Fan, International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI
• Professor R. Paul Singh, University of California Davis, USA
• Manager Ola Svending, Stora Enso, Finland
• Journalist Kim Bildsøe Lassen, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR (moderator)
The full programme will be available April 2010. By bringing different stakeholders together networking will be an essential part of the conference. We look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen for a successful conference.
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