15.02.2010
13:00 - 15:00

Reaping the Benefits, Science and the Sustainable Intensification of Global Agriculture

The Centre
Avenue Marnix 22
1000 Brussels
Phone: +32 (0)2 548 02 60
Fax: +32 (0)2 548 02 61

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The Royal Society
6-9 Carlton House Terrace
SW1Y5AG London, United Kingdom
Phone: +32 (0)2 548 02 60
Email: library@royalsociety.org

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Agriculture & Fisheries

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The Centre
22, Avenue Marnix
1000 Brussels

The report argues that producing enough food for the increasing global population must be done in the face of changing consumption patterns, the impacts of climate change and the growing scarcity of water and land. It discusses the need for a sustainable intensification' of global agriculture in which yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without the cultivation of more land.

Sandwich lunch and coffee will be served from 12:30

Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chair of the Study’s Working Group (University of Cambridge); Timothy Hall, Head of the Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Aquaculture Unit at DG Research of the European Commission and Mr. Tony Pexton, Chairman of Sustainable Arable LINK & NIAB Board, and member of the National Farmer’s Union (NFU).