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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to welcome Professor Tim Benton, University of Leeds, to our 2013-2014 School of Geography Seminar Series. Professor Benton will discuss “Can we have a “sustainable” food system” on Wednesday 28<x-apple-data-detectors://1>th<x-apple-data-detectors://1> of January 2015 from 4-5pm<x-apple-data-detectors://1> in the Geography East Lecture Theatre (G23). Please find the abstract and directions below. This seminar will be a wide-ranging interdisciplinary talk, bringing in some insights from working with industry and within Westminster, the commission and the G20.
We hope to see many of you for this interesting contribution to our seminar series. As usual, the seminar will be followed by some refreshments.
The School of Geography Seminars are free to attend and meant to be intellectually and socially inclusive. We therefore give all members of staff and interested colleagues and students across institutions a warm welcome.
Best wishes,
Dr Martin Zebracki & Dr Karen Bacon
Convenors, School of Geography Seminar Series
ABSTRACT
The challenges of globally increasing demand for food put huge pressures on natural resources. Given the rate of growth of demand, and the current rate of growth of yields, a “business as usual” scenario sees agri-food requiring over a doubling of water and large increases of land by mid-century and emissions from the sector would account for ~2 degrees of global warming by themselves. “Business as usual” is therefore not a palatable option, and this is even before taking into account the challenges presented by climate change. Where is there scope for change? Some change is needed on the supply side to produce more, sustainably, but significant changes are needed on the demand side to reduce pressure on the environment but also driven by the needs for improving global public health. Are demand-side measures feasible?
DIRECTIONS
This Seminar is held in the School of Geography Lecture Theatre. This can be found in the Geography East Building, University of Leeds. If you find the car park in the centre of this Google Maps image at http://goo.gl/DbxKBC, the Geography East Building is the building on the right of it. Enter from the car park, and follow the right-hand wall to reach the Lecture Theatre. Instructions for getting to the University, and for visitor car parking, can be found here: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/20014/about/157/how_to_find_us.
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