Achieving food and environmental security – new approaches to close the gap

9.00am – 5.00pm on 03 December 2012 – 04 December 2012 at The Royal Society, London.

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Guy Poppy, Professor Paul Jepson, Professor John Pickett CBE FRS and Dr Michael Birkett.

Event details

A growing population coupled with climate change increases pressure on land and food security. The sustainable production of sufficient food, water and energy is challenging and boundaries between intensive/extensive and high tech/low tech agriculture need to broken down. This meeting reports on innovative science and adoption of novel strategies that open new windows of opportunity for sustainable production intensification.

Biographies of the organisers and speakers will be available below soon and you can also download the draft programme (PDF). Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the event and papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions B.

Attending this event

This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields and is free to attend. There are a limited number of places and registration is essential. An optional lunch is offered and should be booked during registration (all major credit cards accepted). but pre-registration online is essential.

Participants are also encouraged to attend the related satellite meeting Can science help us get back to the countryside? which immediately follows this event.