Science Bar "How to feed 10 billion people?"

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

Our planet is home to some 7.9 billion people, and according to projections, it will be close to 10 billion by 2050. Feeding the world's ever-growing population is therefore a major challenge.

Demographic growth, urbanization, rising living standards, changing dietary habits, climate change... All these factors exert extremely strong 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 call for imminent change, and the answers will require us to rethink our agri-food habits.

A panel of multidisciplinary experts from the Planet@aliment project will be on hand to answer questions from the public:

• Ève Fouilleux, CNRS political scientist, member of the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés (LISIS), associate researcher at the Unité Mixte de Research MOISA in Montpellier;
• Éric Verger, nutritionist at IRD (Unité Mixte de Research MOISA);
• Yves Vigouroux, plant geneticist at IRD, Director of the DIADE Joint Research Unit Research .

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

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