Feeding 10 billion people sustainably – with Professor Sir Charles Godfray
Feeding 10 billion people sustainably and healthily...
Professor Sir Charles Godfray, FRS - Professor of Population Biology and Director of the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University; Alumni Imperial College London.
Global demand for food will likely increase by 40-60% this century before plateauing. Can we meet this demand while simultaneously reducing the negative effects of food production on the environment and halting the epidemic of diet-related disease.
Our eminent speaker argued we can and highlighted some of the exciting technical advances that will help make this possible, though stressing that we will fail unless we have the political will to make hard decisions about refashioning the global food system.
Professor Sir Charles Godfray FRS is a population biologist with broad interests in science and the interplay of science and policy. He has spent his career at Oxford University and Imperial College and is currently Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Population Biology at Oxford.
His research has involved experimental and theoretical studies in population and community ecology, epidemiology and evolutionary biology. He is particularly interested in food security and chaired the UK Government Office of Science’s Foresight project on the Future of Food and Farming and recently stepped down as chair of the UK’s agricultural and environment (Defra) ministry’s Science Advisory Council.
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