Improving Agriculture in a Warmer World

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April 26, 2017 5:00pm

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Science Center Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

THE FUTURE OF FOOD: Climate, Crops, and Consequences

Understanding the challenges associated with reliably providing food and nutrition in the context of a growing population and changing climate is integral when considering the global food system. The Future of Food: Climate, Crops, and Consequences Lecture Series, organized by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, highlights the interactions between agriculture and climate and their consequences for health and stability in an ongoing series of discussions with speakers from government, academia, and industry. 

Wednesday, April 26
Title: "Improving Agriculture in a Warmer World"
David Lobell, William Wrigley Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; Associate Professor of Earth System Science;
Deputy Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University
5:00pm
Science Center Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

All lectures are free and open to the public

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