When today’s toddlers are parents themselves, they will face an agricultural crisis. The world population will reach 9 billion. A growing global middle class will demand more food. And climate change will leave farmers holding seeds that won’t sprout. By 2050, will our global appetite outgrow our agricultural capacity? We held an event to find out how everyone—growers, technologists, governments, business leaders, and carbon-conscious consumers—will be part of the solution.
Agenda
8:45 a.m. – Registration and Coffee
9:00 a.m. – The Collision Course: Rising Demand on a Hotter Planet
Mark Hertsgaard - @MarkHertsgaard Schmidt Family Foundation Fellow, New America Foundation Author, HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
9:20 a.m. – Will New Seeds Conquer the New Climate?
Evan Pugh Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University 2006 National Medal of Science Recipient
Sara Scherr - @EcoAgPartners President and CEO, EcoAgriculture Partners
Moderator: Mark Hertsgaard - @MarkHertsgaard Schmidt Family Foundation Fellow, New America Foundation Author, HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
10:00 a.m. – Where’s the Beef? Your Hamburger in 2050
George H. Vineyard Professor of Biological Physics, University of Missouri Co-founder and CSO, Modern Meadow, Inc.
Graham Meriwether - @AmericanMeat Director, Cinematographer and Producer, “American Meat” Director, Leave It Better
Dawn Moncrief - @awellfedworld Founder and Executive Director, A Well-Fed World
Moderator: Will Saletan - @saletan National Correspondent, Slate
10:50 a.m. – The Next Green Revolution: Is There An App for That?
Lynn Roche - @apps4africa Planning and Coordination Officer, Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Office Bureau ofAfrican Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Elana Berkowitz - @elanab Adjunct Fellow, Open Technology Initiative, New America Foundation Associate, McKinsey and Co.
Su Kahumbu - @SuKahumbu Inventor, iCow 2010 TEDGlobal Fellow
Moderator: Charles Kenny - @charlesjkenny Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation Author, Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding — And How We Can Improve the World Even More
11:30 a.m. – From Green to Resilient
Fred Kirschenmann - @StoneBarns Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University President, StoneBarns Center for Food and Agriculture 2011 James Beard Foundation Leadership Award Recipient
11:45 a.m. – Homegrown Solutions
Johannes Lehmann - @Cornell_Univ Associate Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University
Martin Kleinschmit - @cfra Farmer Sustainable Agriculture Specialist (retired), Center for Rural Affairs
Moderator: Brian Vastag - @brianvastag Science reporter, Washington Post
12:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. – Lunch Break
12:45 p.m. – The Quest for Food Justice in the Face of Finite Resources
M. Jahi Chappell - @WSUVancouver Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Justice, Washington State University Vancouver
Debra Eschmeyer - @FoodCorps Co-Founder and Program Director, FoodCorps 2011 James Beard Foundation Leadership Award Recipient
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin - @main_street Director, Rural Enterprise Center, Main Street Project
Moderator: Charles Kenny - @charlesjkenny Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation Author, Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding – And How We Can Improve the World Even More
President, Millennium Institute Co-chair, International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science & Technology 1995 World Food Prize Recipient
In conversation with:
Ed Carr - @edwardrcarr Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow serving as a climate science advisor on the Climate Change Team at USAID Author, Delivering Development: Globalization’s Shoreline and the Road to a Sustainable Future
Moderator: David Biello - @dbiello Associate Editor for environment and energy, Scientific American
2:15 p.m. – Business as usual? Toward Global Adaptation
Scott Faber - @faberfamilyfarm Vice President of Government Affairs, Environmental Working Group
Bill Hohenstein - @USDA Director, USDA Global Change Program
Meghan Stasz - @GroceryMakers Director, Sustainability, Grocery Manufacturers Association
Moderator: David Biello - @dbiello Associate Editor for environment and energy, Scientific American
3:05 p.m. – Wrap-Up
Mark Hertsgaard - @MarkHertsgaard Schmidt Family Foundation Fellow, New America Foundation Author, HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
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