Highlights

How to ensure food security today and tomorrow? Agriculture in the face of new and urgend
global needs.

12 December 2008
8:30-17:30, Auditorium Maximum, ETH Zurich

Conference on the world food situation, organised by the North-South Centre of the ETH
Zurich and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture.

Exploding food prices in recent times have led to political unrest in several cities of the
developing world. Policy-makers and development agencies have reacted by increased
investment in short-term food aid. In the long-term, the agricultural sector is the starting point
for finding sustainable solutions to overcome the crisis. This relates to agricultural productivity
as well as to policy frameworks for combating hunger and poverty. Special attention needs to
be given to research in food and agriculture and related fields, which have been underfunded
in the past decades.
The conference will identify innovative approaches in agriculture in developing countries,
including new research priorities in response to changing needs.

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