FRI SEPT. 26 - FOOD FOR LIFE

Science and technology for improvement

 

ICRISAT Champions the Poor of the Semi-Arid Tropics	William Dar, Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, India
Boosting sustainable crop productivity	Dirk Inzé, Professor at Ghent University and Scientific Director of the Department of Plant Systems Biology at the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology
Fisheries and global changes impacts on marine ecosystems and global food security	Daniel Pauly,Director, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada
Biotechnology to support food sustainability in the developing Countries	Tilahun Yilma, Distinguished Professor of Virology Member, International Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tropical Disease Agents, University of California, Davis
Biofortification, a cost-effective intervention for micro-nutrient deficiency	Ingo Potrykus,Chairman Humanitarian Golden Rice Board and Network and EmeritusProfessor of Plant Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Tackling chronic diseases: the potential of preventive medicine through improvements to diet	Cathie Martin,Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes C., UK

Overview on nutrition in China, past and present	Chunming Chen, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Obesity and Diabetes: Excess Food or Toxic Environment	Barbara Corkey, Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, Vice Chair for Research Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Italian Association for Cancer Research Lecture
Safe and Healthy Food: whose responsibility?	Lord John Krebs, Former Chairman of the UK Food Standards Agency; Principal Jesus College, Oxford
Panel Discussion

Programme overview