Food@Sydney Global Food, Nutrition Security and Climate Change

How will a changing climate affect global food production and global hunger? What do we know and what needs to be done? In March 2014, the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change released the 5th Assessment Report of Working Group II, responsible for considering human adaptation to climate change. The Report presented a sobering, state-of-the-art assessment of how forecasts of climate change might affect global food systems. This is a complex area for future-gazing. Key assumptions about the interactions between climate change, agricultural production and the broader food system remain subject to considerable doubt. The panel will address this important set of issues. PANEL Professor Elspeth Probyn, Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies Associate Professor Bill Pritchard, Associate Professor in Human Geography Dr John Ingram, University of Oxford Debbie Hunt, NSW & ACT State Campaign and Engagement Coordinator for Oxfam Australia A Sydney Ideas and Sydney Environment Institute Food@Sydney event http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2014/food@sydney_series_2014.shtml