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17Mar2010: Farming and sustainable environments
Earthwatch Lecture: Farming and sustainable environments
7.00pm, Wednesday 17 March 2010, Royal Geographical Society, London SW7 2AR
Speakers: Professor Ken Norris, University of Reading; Dr Mark Chandler, Earthwatch
Chair: BBC Countryfile presenter, Julia Bradbury
6.00pm: Doors open (Cash bar); 7.00pm – 8.30pm: Lecture; 8.30pm - 9.30pm: Second cash bar.
As the world’s population increases and climate change forces land use patterns to change, pressures upon farmers to produce more food on limited agricultural land grows by the day. Some believe we will have to grow more food over the next 50 years than we have over the last 10,000. Yet productive and sustainable agriculture depends on healthy ecosystems - fertile soil, plentiful water and flourishing natural pollinators and pest controllers. Can we reconcile the conflict between urgently intensifying agriculture and conserving precious ecosystems?
Join environmental charity, Earthwatch, as their scientists, Professor Ken Norris and Dr Mark Chandler, tease apart the complex issues at the heart of this debate, relating it to their research on the sustainability of cocoa farming in Ghana and coffee production in Costa Rica.
For more information and tickets please visit: http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/events/