Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Glenn Denning, a world-leading specialist in agricultural and food policy to discuss Denning’s new book Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet.) Together, they explore how we can achieve a food-secure world while protecting the planet through sustainable agricultural technologies, farm practices, and healthy diets.
Their discussion ranges broadly over the choices of agricultural technology, food policy, dietary choices, and public institutions needed to achieve global food security with environmental sustainability. Denning shares his wealth of personal experiences as an agricultural policy advisor in many parts of the world, and vividly describes pivotal achievements in food policy. He describes vividly how our complex food challenges can be systematically addressed and solved.
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Footnotes:
- Food Security)
- Food System Impacts on Climate Change)
- Sustainable Development Goals)
- Energy System Transformation)
- Integrated Rural Development)
- Agronomy)
- Sustainable Agriculture)
- International Rice Institute)
- Plant Architecture)
- Harvest Index)
- IR 8)
- IR 36)
- Green Revolution Rice Variety)
- Philippines 3 Rs - rice roads and arithmetic)
- Khmer Rouge)
- Gene Bank)
- Anthropogenic GreenHouse Gasses )
- Cows Methane Release)
- Green House Emissions - Agriculture)
- Post Harvard Stewardship)
- Social Protection)
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