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Webinar: Global Food Security Challenges

Join us on 22 June for an exciting webinar on Global Food Security Challenges. Preeminent leaders from nearly every continent discuss sustainable development, biodiversity, agro-technology, biotechnology, insect physiology and more. The event is part of a monthly series presented by the University of Arizona Civil and Architectural Engineering department.

Tuesday 22 Jun

Time and Location

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    Date: 22 June, 2021
    Time: 5:00 PM-7:00 PM GMT+1 (London)

    Register here.

    Read more on the webinar here.

    The discussion will draw on EASAC and IAP work on the topic of Food, Nutrition Security and Agriculture.

    Featured Speakers:

    James L. Buizer (Moderator), Founding Director, Arizona Institutes for Resilience; Professor, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, University of Arizona
    Mohamed Hassan
    President, The World Academy of Sciences; Vice-Chair, the Scientific Group, United Nations Food Summit 2021,Trieste, Italy
    Robin Fears
    Biosciences Programme Director, European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC), London, England
    Elizabeth Hodson de Jaramillo
    Professor Emeritus, School of Sciences of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
    Sheryl Hendriks
    Director of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-Being, Professor of Food Security, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria, South Africa

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    Member Academies

    The Austrian Academy of Sciences
    The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium
    The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts
    The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    Czech Academy of Sciences
    The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
    The Estonian Academy of Sciences
    The Council of Finnish Academies
    The Académie des sciences, France
    The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    The Academy of Athens
    The Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    The Royal Irish Academy
    The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy
    The Latvian Academy of Sciences
    The Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
    The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
    The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
    The Polish Academy of Sciences
    The Academy of Sciences of Lisbon
    The Romanian Academy
    The Slovak Academy of Sciences
    The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    The Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    The Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
    The Royal Society, UK
    Academia Europaea