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FEEDING A HOT AND HUNGRY PLANET
The
Challenge of Making More Food and Fewer Greenhouse Gases
April 29–May
1, 2009, Princeton University
As part of
the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 Ethics and the Environment Lecture
Series, the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) hosted a
one-day symposium and a two-day conference on campus
(both events are open to the public, registration suggested)
that explored the scientific, policy and ethical questions
presented by the need to greatly boost food production to feed
a growing world population while reducing agriculture’s
contribution of about 30 percent of the world’s greenhouse
gases.
The world
population is projected to grow from 6.7 to 9 billion or more
people by 2050, and many more people will have the income to
eat meat and other foods that require more land and other
resources. Avoiding land use change while feeding the world of
2050 will require improvements in the world’s current rate of
crop yield growth, yet reducing greenhouse gases will require
reducing methane emissions from livestock and probably require
reductions in fertilizer use. Measures that increase the cost
of food could have harsh impacts on the world’s 1 billion
malnourished people, yet low food prices disadvantage poor
farmers in developing countries. These events are sponsored by
the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the Program in
Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and
co-sponsored by University Center for Human Values and the
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Featured
Speakers
Charles Benbrook, Chief Scientist, The Organic Center
Tracy
Blackmer,
Director
of Research, Iowa Soybean Association
"The Quandary Over Fertilizer – How Do We Feed Our Crops While
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions?"
Sharon
Bomer,
Vice
President for Food and Agriculture, Biotechnology Industry
Organization
"Agricultural Biotechnology: Success Through Science Based
Regulations"
Howarth
Bouis,
Program Director, HarvestPlus, International Food Policy
Research Institute
"Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition"
David
Castle,
Associate
Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of
Ottawa
"Ethical Challenges to the Adoption of Technologies"
"Environmental Benefits from HT Canola Production"**
Maarten
Chrispeels,
Division
of Biological Sciences, University of California, San
Diego
"Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: Does Biotechnology
Have a Role?"
Gidon
Eshel, Bard Center Fellow, Division of Science,
Mathematics and Computing, Simon’s Rock College of Bard
University
"Food and the Global Environment"
Jonathan
Foley,
Professor,
McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology, Evolution and
Behavior. Director, Institute on the Environment,
University of Minnesota.
"Global Landscapes Initiative"Space
William
Freese,
Center for
Food Safety, Washington, DC
"The Failed Promise of Agricultural Biotechnology"
Gary
Hirshberg,
Chairman,
President and CEO, Stonyfield Farm, Inc.
"Thoughts from an Organic Entrepreneur"
P.K. Joshi,
Associate Director, TERI University, New Delhi, India
"A Story of Developing World – South Asia"
Rattan Lal,
Professor of Natural Sciences, Ohio State University
"Sequestering C in Soil"
Eric
Lambin,
Department
of Geography, University of Louvain
"From Net Deforestation to Net Reforestation in the Tropics:
Pathways and Caveats"
Timothy
LaSalle,
CEO, The Rodale Institute
"Regenerative 21st Century Farming: A Solution to Global
Warming & The Organic Green Revolution"
Autar
Mattoo,
Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, USDA, ARS
"Value-Added GM Tomatoes are Synergistic with Sustainable
Agriculture"Space
Jerry
Melillo,
Director,
Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass.
"Second Generation Biofuels: Seeking the Climate-Protective
Domain"
Sophie Meunier, Associate Research Scholar, Woodrow
Wilson School, Princeton Universitypace
Henry
Miller,
Research
Fellow, Hoover Institution
"Regulation of Agbiotech: Science Shows the Way"
Xenia Morin, Lecturer in Princeton Writing Program and
the Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton Universityace
Michael
Obersteiner,
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis,
Laxenburg, Austria
"Managing the Terrestrial Biosphere for a Hungry and Hot
Planet"
Cheryl
Palm,
Senior
Research Scientist and Scientific Director, Tropical
Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program. The Earth
Institute, Columbia University.
"Saving Our Soils – How Can We Get Carbon Back into the
World's Soils?"
Wayne
Parrott,
Department
of Crop & Soil Sciences, University of Georgia
"Avoiding the Myths: The Scientific Basis for Agbiotech
Regulation"
Jan-Erik
Petersen,
Project
Manager, Agriculture and Environment European Environment
Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Reducing
GHG Emissions from Livestock – a European Perspective"
Prabhu Pingali, Deputy Director, Agricultural
Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Carl Pray,
Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
"Economic
and Health Impacts of GM Crops in China, India, and South
Africa"
Debbie
Reed,
Director, DRD Associates
"Climate Change and Agriculture: Agriculture's Role in
Cap-and-Trade"
"Biochar:
A Carbon-Negative Technology to Combat Climate Change an
Enhance Global Soil Resources"
Eric Sachs,
Director of Scientific Affairs, Monsanto Corporation
"Developing Drought Resistant Crops: Possibilities and
Realities"
Suman
Sahai,
Gene
Campaign, India
"Governance of Agbiotechnology in India"
Pedro
Sanchez,
Director,
Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program, The
Earth Institute, Columbia University
"The African Green Revolution Moves Forward – Cut to the
Chase"
Tim
Searchinger,
Associate
Research Scholar, Princeton Environmental Institute,
Woodrow Wilson School, and the Program in Science, Technology,
and Environmental Policy. Lecturer in Public and International
Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and the Princeton Environmental
Institute, Princeton University.
"Feeding a Hot and Hungry Planet"
Shanthu Shantharam,
Visiting Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School and the
Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy .
Visiting Lecturer in Public and International Affairs,
Princeton University.
Howard-Yana Shapiro, Director of Plant Science and
External Research, Mars Incorporated
Lee Silver, Professor of Molecular Biology and Public
Affairs; Faculty Associate, Science, Technology &
Environmental Policy Program, Office of Population Research,
and the Center for Health and Wellbeing,
Princeton University.
Melinda
Smale, Researcher, Agriculture and Trade.
"The
Potential of Biotech Crops in Small-Scale Agriculture"
Henning Steinfeld, Chief, AGAL, Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations
G. David
Tilman,
Regents’ Professor, McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology,
Director of Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, Department
of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
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