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Food levels must double within 50 years warns Defra’s Chief Scientist during SAC seminar

Professor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser to Defra, warned that if the world’s demand for food is to be met, availability must double by 2060.

Professor Bob Watson was speaking to an audience of around 200 SAC and University of Edinburgh students and staff at a seminar jointly organised by the two institutions.

With the expansive title of ‘Climate Change, Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Degradation: Food and Water Security’ the seminar examined the big global issues and prompted a host of questions and comments from audience members that could easily have continued well beyond the seminar’s close.

Professor Watson drew his seminar to an end by concluding that that sufficient food supplies can only be achieved by a move away from the ‘business-as-usual policies, practices and technologies’ in favour of an innovative approach in these three areas involving all stakeholders in the food chain.

A film of the seminar is available on the University of Edinburgh’s website.

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