The Imperiled Food Supply - Challenges and Solutions for Future Food Security
Offered By: The Aspen Institute via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Explore the critical challenges facing global food security in this 46-minute talk from The Aspen Institute. Delve into the impacts of population growth, changing agricultural practices, and altered weather patterns on the world's food supply. Examine how rising temperatures, increased carbon dioxide levels, and shifting fish populations will affect food production and nutrition over the next 30 years. Learn about potential solutions, including biotechnology, resource management techniques, improved irrigation, crop insurance, and trade policy adjustments. Understand the urgency for world leaders to act now in preparing for the impending food security crisis as the global population approaches 10 billion.
Syllabus
The Imperiled Food Supply
Taught by
The Aspen Institute
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