Public talk discusses feeding a fast-growing global population
Celebrate sustainable agriculture with Montana State University, the regional host institution of Western SARE, as National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson visits Bozeman to discuss “Who Will Feed Planet Earth?” on Tuesday, February 19th at 5pm. The talk will take place at the Procrastinator Theater in MSU’s Strand Union Building. The event is free and open to the public.
Feeding our planet challenges mankind’s future on Earth. Worldwide population will likely reach 9.6 billion by 2050 – if not more. Richardson, a veteran National Geographic photographer, will offer a broad overview of the sources, problems and possible solutions to this daunting challenge. Drawing on twenty years’ coverage of agriculture subjects, Richardson traces man’s food story beginning 10,000 years ago with the Neolithic Revolution, how agriculture spread and eventually restructured the biosphere, where critical research and development is taking place, and who grows our food. His broad overview reaches one major conclusion: growing the food to feed humanity is the largest endeavor on the planet.
SARE is a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that functions through competitive grants conducted cooperatively by farmers, ranchers, researchers and ag professionals to advance farm and ranch systems that are profitable, environmentally sound and good for communities. Learn more at www.westernsare.org. •
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