Science Bar: “How Can We Feed 10 Billion People?”

Brasserie Le Dôme, 2 Avenue Georges Clémenceau, Montpellier.
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Our planet is home to some 7.9 billion people, and projections indicate that this number is expected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050. Feeding a constantly growing global population is therefore a major challenge.

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

Will we be able to feed the 10 billion people who will inhabit our planet in the coming decades? What solutions exist to meet this challenge in a sustainable way? These issues require immediate change, and the answers call for a reevaluation of our food habits.

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

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