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Agriculture is the largest, most ecologically disruptive, and most necessary enterprise on Earth. Growing enough food for 9 billion people by mid-century will require its radical transformation. Can it be done? In this session we’ll look for the first hopeful green shoots: in the Sahel, where farmers are raising yields by planting trees; in the way some large retailers are forcing their producers to think sustainably, and last but not least in the Five-Step Plan for agricultural revolution recently sketched out by a team of scientists. One of those scientists, Jon Foley of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, will present the plan. Then a diverse panel of experts, including a former Secretary for Agriculture and the man who inspired Rainforest Crunch, will discuss the opportunities and enormous challenges that lie ahead on our cultivated planet.
Panelists
Jason Clay, Senior Vice President, Market Transformation, World Wildlife Fund
Jon Foley, Director, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
Dan Glickman, Executive Director, Congressional Program, The Aspen Institute, Former US Secretary of Agriculture
Chris Reij, Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute
Moderator
Dennis Dimick, Executive Editor for the Environment, National Geographic magazine