Our event will address the impact of climate change on food security and the techniques we can implement to build resilient agricultural production systems, with a particular focus on regenerative agriculture.
“The decades-long decline in hunger in the world has ended” – FAO, The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020.
Since 2014, the FAO has registered an increase in undernourishment in the world. In 2019, 25.9% of the world population faced moderate or severe levels of food insecurity with the most rapid increase in Latin American, the Caribbean and Africa. This increase was mostly tied with the outbreak of conflicts and economic shocks, but another threat is looming on the close horizon.
Increasing climate risks – such as irregular rainfall, increased incidences of storms, prolonged droughts and intensive heat waves – are already affecting food production, pest infestations and the spread of disease and insects. These particularly affect small-scale farmers who don’t have the financial or technical ability to invest in advanced irrigation systems, drought resistant seeds, or synthetic fertilisers.
To discuss alternative solutions to this dilemma, we will be joined by Professor Timothy LaSalle.
Timothy LaSalle has served as the first CEO of Rodale Institute, Executive Director of the Allan Savory Center for Holistic Management, consultant, advisor, and research coordinator for the Howard Buffett Foundation in Africa on soils and food security for smallholder farmers. He is Professor Emeritus of California Polytechnic State University, and former President/CEO, of the California Agriculture Leadership Program where he arranged educational leadership programs in more than 80 countries with heads of state, ministers, and community leaders.
Professor LaSalle is a strong proponent of regenerative agriculture (i.e. farming and grazing practices that aim to reverse climate change by rebuilding soil organic matter and restoring degraded soil biodiversity) as an effective response to climate change, hunger, water scarcity and farmer’s challenges.
This event will be live-streamed to our YouTube channel here:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCOoksFYBCHqZWwVBU9qewZg
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