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WALTER ORR ROBERTS PUBLIC LECTURE
– 24 OCTOBER 2008
What will it take to feed the world sustainably?
SPEAKER:
Dr. Rosamond Naylor
Fellow,
Institute for Intl. Studies
Stanford University |
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About the lecture
With the world's population growing toward 9 billion--coupled with rising incomes, expanding meat consumption, and increased allocation of cropland for biofuels--the goals of meeting basic food needs, reducing global hunger, and preserving the health of the planet will become ever more challenging. In this public talk, Dr. Rosamond Naylor, fellow at Stanford University's Institute for International Studies, examines this challenge in the context of key countries, food-feed-fuel connections, and increased instability in commodity and financial markets.
About the speaker
Rosamond Lee Naylor is the William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Woods Institute of the Environment at Stanford University, and the Director of Stanford's Program on Food Security and the Environment. Naylor received her B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado, her M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics, and her Ph.D. in applied economics...
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