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April 26, 2016

Climate Change Through the Lens of Food Security

59 minutes

From the water-barren fields of African farmers to rice paddies

in Bangladesh, droughts and floods caused by climate change disrupt

food production, distribution and consumption on a growing scale.

What actions can be taken at the local, national and transnational

level to ensure that growing populations are able feed themselves

and generations to come while adapting to gradual or even rapid

changes in the climate?

Speakers:

Josette Lewis

Associate Director, World Food Center, UC Davis

David Lobell

Deputy Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment;

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International

Studies, Stanford University

David Waskow

Director, International Climate Initiative, World Resources

Institute

Moderator:

Maximilian Auffhammer

George Pardee Jr. Professor of International Sustainable

Development, University of California, Berkeley

For more information about this event please

visit: http://www.worldaffairs.org/media-library/event/1543

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