Food Security for Cities
Tuesday 13 September 2011 (11am - 5pm)
Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
This one-day special conference is being co-organised by the Royal Statistical Society and Significance magazine.
Food prices are rising worldwide. Production is under increasing pressure from such factors as climate change. Patterns of urban consumption and distribution are changing rapidly. Food-related disturbances have already destabilised governments. The conference will focus on topics such as these. The speakers will be:
The Urban Foodscape: are planners the problem or the solution?
KEVIN MORGAN (Cardiff University)
Planners have addressed all the essentials of human life with the exception of food. This presentation will explore what cities and urban planners are now doing around the world to compensate for this strange omission.
Will there be a contribution from increasing yields of crops?
KEITH JAGGARD (Rothamsted Research)
The world population is predicted to rise to 9.1 billion people by 2050. If all these people are to be fed sufficiently, food production will have to increase by 50-70%. By 2050 the CO2 concentration in the earth's atmosphere is likely to be 550 ppm and the temperature will be warmer by about 2°C. This paper will consider whether CO2 fertilization, ozone pollution, a warmer climate and advances in agronomy to estimate whether this increase is likely.
A Review of Global Long-Run Food System Scenarios
DIRK WILLENBOCKEL (Institute of Development Studies)
The talk provides a concise selective overview of recent model-based projections for the global food system towards 2050 and reflects upon potential policy insights arising from these studies.
Out of the city: the case for a new ruralism
CHRIS SMAJE
In this presentation I suggest that long-term food security for cities will depend upon resolving various resource problems within industrial agriculture that are currently intractable. Given present urbanisation trends, this represents a very high risk strategy. Small-scale agro-ecological farming - within cities, but more importantly outside them - is a more promising approach for long-term food security. But it will require us to retool policy frameworks and rethink basic social and economic presuppositions long coloured by urban bias in order to develop an effective rural agrarianism.
Winners and Losers from the Global Food System
DUNCAN GREEN (Head of Research, Oxfam UK)
Duncan Green, head of research at Oxfam, will discuss GROW, its new global campaign on 'food justice in a resource constrained world'. He will look at the way the current food system helps and harms poor people and communities, and what can be done to improve it.
What do those who suffer hunger in cities prioritize?
DAVID SATTERTHWAITE (International Institute for Environment and Development)
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Paul Gentry
Meetings & Conferences Manager
Royal Statistical Society
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