Will Gene-Edited Crops Drive a Second Green Revolution?
Information
- Sted:
- Festauditoriet (Nr. A1-01.01), Frederiksberg Campus, Københavns Universtitet, Bülowsvej 17, 1870 Frederiksberg, Denmark
- Sprog:
- Engelsk
- Pris:
- Gratis / Free
- Fra:
- 03. december 2024 kl. 11:00
- Til:
- 03. december 2024 kl. 13:00
The global population will grow by about 20 percent in the next 30 years, but the demand for agricultural products will increase substantially faster as people become richer. If global agricultural productivity growth cannot keep up, there is no other way to meet demand than by drawing additional land into agriculture, a scenario that entails further pressure on natural habitats, loss of biodiversity, and increased greenhouse gas emissions. The alternative is equally undesirable: If supply growth fails to meet demand, food prices will increase, possibly with disastrous consequences for the world’s poor. Higher agricultural productivity is the only way to escape this catch-22, and agricultural innovation is consequently of first-order importance for several of the world’s most pressing problems, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, and food security.
Join us for this interdisciplinary lunch seminar, in which we ask whether recent advances in gene-editing can increase crop yields sufficiently to meet global demand in the 21st century. We will survey recent innovations and discuss economic, cultural, environmental, and legal barriers to developing and adopting transgene and gene-edited crops.
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