World Food Prize Laureate winner to give 2025 John Innes Foundation Lecture

Dr Cary Fowler, former US Special Envoy for Global Food
Security and 2024 World Food Prize winner will be delivering this year’s John
Innes Foundation Lecture, ‘Trends – Trouble – Tenacity: The food security
picture for 2050’. It will be held at the John Innes Conference Centre at
Norwich Research Park starting from 1.30-2.30pm on Friday 23 May.

The preponderance of evidence indicates that we will fall
far short of producing enough to meet global food demand and need by 2050.
Climate, soil degradation and loss, water shortages, conflict, trade
restrictions and underinvestment in agricultural research are combining to
swell the numbers of food insecure and create an ugly world we should not
bequeath to future generations.

No magic solutions exist but amongst the many good and
positive things that could be done, a few are strategic and essential. Dr
Fowler will examine the challenges and point to a few of the most important
responses we could be making.

At the State Department Dr Fowler launched the ‘Vision for
Adapted Crops and Soils’ initiative and organised 150 Nobel and World Food
Prize Laureates to raise the alarm about the growing challenges to feeding the
world’s people by 2050.

Previously, Dr Fowler led the Global Crop Diversity Trust
and is best known for being the ‘father’ of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

You are welcome to attend in
person so please register here. 

(Please note that you
do not need to register to attend in person if you are already
planning to attend the whole of Jonathan Jones’ ‘Looking Back to Look Forward’
event at the same venue.)

You can also watch a livestream of the lecture here.