Achieving food security and sustainability for 9 billion
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To ensure food security for the increasing world population in a environmentally sustainable way, we must double productivity on the same area of land. as well as address the concerns of modern high input agriculture, declining water availability and climate change. Join us to hear Chris Leaver talk about the importance of investing in science and technology - essential tools in increasing the efficiency of agriculture and attempting to reverse the impact of man- made climate change. In his words 'Doing nothing is not an option' Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
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