Former President of Ireland and President, Mary Robinson Foundation — Climate Justice
How do we sustainably feed 8 billion people by 2025?
Providing 8 billion people with quality, affordable and accessible food will be the defining economic, sociopolitical and ethical issue of our time. It is a global challenge. But it is also a challenge to California, one of the world's top agricultural producers.
On April 9, 2013, producers, geo-politicists, ethicists, economists, humanists and others will address the challenges of protecting our natural resource base (water, soil, air, plants and animals) upon which our food depends, the risks we face if we do not, and potential solutions for California and the world. We invite you to view these discussions via webcast.
Global Panel
Don Bransford
Chair of the UC President’s Advisory Commission on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Partner in Bransford Farms
Maarten Chrispeels
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UC San Diego
Cheryl Doss
Senior Lecturer, Global Affairs and Economics, Yale University
Robert Goldberg
Biology Professor, UCLA
Jim Harkness
President, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Ron Herring
Professor of Government, Cornell University
Sol Katz
Professor Emeritus
Director, W.M. Krogman Center for Research in Child Growth and Development
Anuradha Mittal
Founder and Director, The Oakland Institute
Rebecca Peters
The Blum Center
Howard-Yana Shapiro
Global Staff Officer, Plant Science and External Research at Mars, Incorporated
Senior Fellow, Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at UC Davis
Jonathan Shrier
Acting Special Representative, US Department of State
Garrison Sposito
Professor, Ecosystem Sciences and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Brian Swimme
Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies
California Panel
Komal Ahmad
Executive Director and Co-Founder of BareAbundance, and Co-Founder of the Food Recovery Network
Ted Batkin
President, California Citrus Research Board
Grant Chaffin
Chaffin Farms
Bill Fulton
Vice President, Smart Growth America
Glenda Humiston
California State Director, USDA Rural Development
Linda Katehi
Chancellor, UC Davis
Alan McHughen
CE Biotechnology Specialist and Geneticist, UC Riverside
Paul Muller
Co-owner, Full Belly Farm
David Schwartz
Co-founder and Campaign Director, Real Food Challenge
Larry Smarr
Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Joe Traynor
Scientific Ag Company
Stuart Woolf
Woolf Enterprises Inc
UC President’s Advisory Commission on Agriculture and Natural Resources