Seminar: Food Security Strategies for a Changing World
An upcoming seminar with food systems expert Chris Barrett will focus on how successful transformation of our food system will require the combination of accelerated technological change with a range of policy, institutional and cultural innovations.
Date: Wednesday, 08 June 2022
Time: 18:00 – 19:15 CEST
Location: ETH Zurich, Auditorium ML E 12, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich
Organized by the World Food System Center, in collaboration with ETH4D.
Register required: DownloadDownload seminar flyer (PDF, 365 KB)
Programme
- 18:00: Introduction by Martijn Sonnevelt, Executive Director World Food System Center
- 18:10: Keynote by Chris Barrett
- 18:55: Moderated discussion with Chris Barrett & Eva-Marie Meemken, ETH Zurich Professor of Food Systems Economics and Policy
- 19:15: Close by Eva-Marie Meemken, Apéro
Keynote abstract: The core food security challenge of the coming genera- tions is how to sharply increase the number and share of people who can afford and choose a healthy diet, reversing the past decade’s disruptions to the prior half century’s remarkable progress. In order to restore and sustain progress, we must simultaneously sharply reduce agrifood system environmental externalities that grow increasingly stark with continued climate change and species extinction. Successful agrifood transformation in this direction will require the bundling of accelerated technological change with a range of policy, institutional and cultural innovations. And we must shift attention to post-farmgate value chain actors, who are both the source and solution to many agrifood system problems today, and to Asia and Africa, which will account for almost all food demand growth this century.
Recently published is the open access book by Barrett, Jessica Fanzo and others, including Alexander Mathys from ETH Zurich, entitled external pageSocio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation.