SAIN members attending Sino-UK Workshop on Food Security

A number of SAIN members were invited to speak at the Sino-UK Food Security conference which was held in Beijing, 7-10 March. The presentations made by SAIN members included:
Peter Gregory – Food Security: the Issues
David Norse – Food Production Over the Past 20 Years and Prospects for the Next 20 Years
Fusuo Zhang– Fertilizers and Crop Yields in China
Yuelai Lu – UK-China Collaboration on Sustainable Agriculture – Framework and Implementation
David Powlson – Increasing Nitrogen Use Efficiency
Bill Davies – Managing Soil Biology
Declan Conway – Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
James Keeley – China’s Engagement with Agriculture in Africa: Implications for Food Security

This workshop was jointly funded by Research Councils UK (RCUK), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China Agricultural University (CAU), Lancaster University (LU), and Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS). The aim of the workshop was to bring together opinion-formers from a broad range of disciplines with a view to informing policy that will be crucial if we are to feed a population rising to nine billion as changes in the climate and in land use are likely to make food production ever more problematic.