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Earth Debate: Food Security – How Do We Feed 9 Billion People in 2050?

09.04.2012

The Earth Debates, organized by the Museum of Natural History of the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future and the British Council, will be webcast live from the UK's MSN, on 9 April. A panel of leading experts chaired by Richard Black, the BBC's environment correspondent, will tackle key issues at the heart of the green economy agenda of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio +20). Four debates will discuss the future pressures on sustainable development, arising from the projected increase in world population and the unequal distribution of resources. The aim is to identify the available options that can lead toward a balance between the demands of a growing population and maintaining an environment that can provide the essential resources for a sustainable future.

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