Keynote Lecture - Challenges for Environment: Feeding 9 Billion People in 2050?

When: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 [7:00 PM - 9:00 PM]
Where: Bldg 20 Auditorium

Description

ls the world headed toward a major food crisis? After several decades of seeming indifference, public opinion is slowly awakening to the fact that a daunting task lies ahead. If a global population of 9 billion by 2050 is to be fed adequately, more food must be produced, and this in keeping with increasingly stringent standards of quality and with respect for the environment. Not to mention the land that must be set aside for the production of energy resources, industrial goods, carbon storage and the protection of biodiversity. To meet this challenge, societies must innovate, keep losses and waste in check, and reverse the current trend of excessive and imbalanced calorie intake. At the same time, the world must put an end to hunger in a context of climate change.

Tue, Jan 14, 2014 [07:00 PM - 09:00 PM]

Marion Guillou

Mrs. Marion Guillou Currently President of Agreenium, the French institute in Agrosciences, as well as member of the CGIAR Consortium Board, Marion Guillou has been president and CEO of INRA (French national institute for Agricultural Research) during eight years (2004-2012) with full responsibility over 8500 employees. She carried out the corporate governance and supervision of two subsidiaries: Agriobtention (seed business) and Inra –Transfer (technology transfer). M Guillou is also a member of the international advisory board of IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute), of the IAB of CAAS (China), member of the Global “Bridging Agriculture and Conservation Initiative”, member of the French Academy of Technology and of the French Academy of Agriculture. She has been a member of the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change (www.ccafs.cgiar.org/commission) chaired by Sir John Beddington(2009-2012). She took the lead with British colleagues of the European Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (JPI-FACCE) that was adopted by EU in 2009. She chaired it during the first four years(2009-2013) and it now gathers 21 countries. As a doctor in food sciences, she has contributed to put in place the foresight “Agrimonde” and then the foresight on “Food Systems Sustainability”. She is the author of “The World’s Challenge: feeding 9 billion people”(Ed Quae-2012) and just published a report for the French Government on agro-ecology (June 2013). She is married and mother of 3.

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