Events Climate change and food security in the Asia Pacific: Response and resilience
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018, 2:30-3:30 PM 66-360, MIT Map Organizer: J-WAFS
Join J-WAFS for a seminar series featuring J-WAFS' 2018 visiting scholar Md. Saidul Islam
The world will need to increase food production by 70% by 2050 in order to meet projected future demand, according to the UN Food & Agriculture Organization. However, at the same time climate change is putting a strain on food production. Drawing on a multi-site study in the Asia-Pacific, this seminar will examine current regional initiatives and future prospects for mitigation and resilience with regard to climate’s impact on food security.
Lecture by Md. Saidul Islam, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University Singapore.
Md Saidul Islam is an associate professor of sociology and the coordinator of the Environment and Sustainability Research Cluster, School of Social Sciences (SSS) and Asian School of the Environment (ASE), Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He is a visiting scholar at the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) during the fall semester of 2018. Professor Islam is the author of Confronting the Blue Revolution: Industrial Aquaculture and Sustainability in the Global South (University of Toronto Press, 2014), among other publications addressing industrial aquaculture, the global agro-food system, climate change, food security, and environmental sustainability.
Learn more about the two additional events in the series:
- Toward sustainable seafood: The limits and possibilities of aquaculture certification (10/31, 2:30-3:30 PM)
- Urban food security in the age of vulnerability: The Singapore story (11/14, 2:30-3:30 PM)
For more information about this event, contact Andi Sutton, J-WAFS communications and program manager, at arsutton@mit.edu
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