Environmental Science, Policy & Engineering Program
This year's ESPE winter seminar series is devoted to “Feeding the World”.
Providing a sufficient supply of nutritious food to the world’s population is a monumental goal that we have not yet fully achieved. Furthermore, the production of food through agriculture is a dominant driver behind many of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. With global population expected to reach 9 billion by mid-century and with rising standards of living across many parts of the world, food production will likely need to increase substantially to ensure food security for the global population. However, the need for increased food production in coming decades poses a serious dilemma – namely, how can we increase production sustainably to ensure that we do not damage our environment in ways that threatens food production and the functioning of the Earth’s ecosystems?
This winter, the ESPE Winter Seminar Series explores these issues in a series of three talks, all of which are free and open to the public.
Check out last year's seminar series topics!
- 2022 Winter Seminar Series: "Reversing Climate Change: Exploring the Value of Carbon Dioxide Removal and Geoengineering."
- 2021 Winter Seminar Series: Environmental and Climate Justice
- 2020 Winter Seminar Series: Water Resources in a Changing World
- 2019 Winter Seminar Series: The War on Facts
- 2018 Winter Seminar Series: A sneak peak at a clean energy future
- Winter Seminar Archive