Science Bar: “How can we feed 10 billion people?”

Brasserie Le Dôme, 2 Avenue Georges Clémenceau, Montpellier.
Free admission, subject to availability. Please note: Cours Gambetta is closed to vehicles.

Our planet has a population of around 7.9 billion, and according to projections, this figure is expected to reach around 10 billion by 2050. Feeding a constantly growing global population therefore represents a major challenge.

Population growth, urbanization, rising living standards, changing dietary habits, climate change... These various factors are putting extreme pressure on resources.

Will we be able to feed the 10 billion people who will populate our planet in the coming decades? What are the solutions to meet this challenge in a sustainable way? These issues require imminent changes, and the answers involve questioning our agri-food habits.

To discuss this topic of science and society, a range of multidisciplinary experts from the Planet@aliment project will answer questions from the public live:

• Ève Fouilleux, political scientist at the CNRS, member of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Science, Innovation, and Society (LISIS), associate researcher at the Research Joint Research Unit in Montpellier;
• Éric Verger, nutritionist at IRD ( Research Joint Research Unit);
• Yves Vigouroux, plant geneticist at IRD, director of the Research Joint Research Unit.

In collaboration with the sustainable food awareness project, Planet@aliment, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.

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