Biodiversity Conservation, population growth and food production: a key challenge for the next...

09 Dec 2010 at 16:30 The Polak Room, Ground floor, Residence Palace 155, Rue de la Loi, 1040 Brussels
9 Dec. 10

Biodiversity Conservation, population growth and food production: a key challenge for the next decades

Conference

Draft programme:

 

16.30–16.40 Opening words Janos Tisovszky, Deputy Director, UNRIC

16.40–17.00 The International Year of Biodiversity – accomplishments, challenges

and outcomes from Nagoya Andras Krolopp, European Policy Officer, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

17.00–17.20 Film screening

17.20–17.40 Population growth, food production and land use

Prof. Patrick Van Damme, head of Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Agronomy and Ethnobotany and Chair of the Centre for Sustainable Development of Ghent University.

17.45–18.15 How can we produce enough food without destroying our planet?

Antje Koelling, Policy Coordinator, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)

18.15–18.45 Discussion moderated by Janos Tisovszky


Kindly register with forsbacka@unric.org no later than Wednesday 8 December.

The conference language is English