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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:53:08 -0500 > >"Feeding the People and Maintaining the Planet: >Meeting the Challenges by 2050." > >Jason Clay, >Senior Vice President >World Wildlife Fund > >Thursday, April 22, 2010 > >Reception @ 5:00 pm >Seminar from 5:30 - 6:45 pm > >147 Communication Arts Building, >Michigan State University A note on parking. The parking in the garage just next to Communication Arts bldg is free after 6 pm. There are meters in the garage if you don't want to risk a ticket. > >RSVP, Jennifer Patterson at ><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by THURSDAY April 15. > >We live on a finite planet. WWF's Living Planet Index suggests that we >are currently at 1.3 planets, exceeding the Earth's carrying capacity. >By almost any measure, producing food has the largest impact of any >human activity. >Most estimates suggest that we will need to produce twice as many >calories on the same amount of land we use today if we want to maintain >biodiversity and ecosystem functions. >We know that what may be sustainable with 6.7 billion people will not >be sustainable with 9 billion people, and that no single strategy will >be sufficient to address this issue. WWF is implementing a strategy >with the 100 global companies that are the most important in changing >the way we produce 15 key commodities. >We help companies and producers align incentives throughout supply >chains to ensure long-term partnerships. WWF has identified 10 "food >wedges" that will allow us to produce enough food for all and still >have a living planet. >These strategies focus on genetics, target crops, better practices, >rehabilitation of degraded land, technology, property rights, waste and >post harvest losses, overconsumption, and carbon. These strategies will >allow us to increase food production while simultaneously reducing its >footprint. > >In addition to his position as WWF's Senior Vice President of Market >Transformation, Dr. Jason Clay manages the WWF Network's private sector >advisory board and led the development of WWF's private sector >engagement strategy. He is a leader within WWF and the NGO community on >identifying global trends and issues as well as supply chain >management. Dr. Clay has co-convened multi-stakeholder roundtables to >reduce the social and environmental impacts of such products as salmon, >soy, sugarcane, and cotton, and he helped draft the principles and >criteria for sustainable palm oil. Dr. Clay has run a family farm, >taught at Harvard and Yale, worked in the U.S. Department of >Agriculture, and spent more than twenty-five years working with human >rights and environmental organizations. He earned a Ph.D. at Cornell >University in anthropology and international agriculture, and is the >author of more than 250 articles and 15 books on the topics of >environment, agriculture, aquaculture, and poverty alleviation. > >This "conversation about our food future" is co-sponsored by > >Sustainable Michigan Endowed Project >College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Department of >Natural Resources and Environment > Vicki Morrone 303 Natural Resources Bldg C.S. Mott Group Dept of CARRS East Lansing, MI 48824 517-353-3542/517-282-3557 (cell) [log in to unmask] www.MichiganOrganic.msu.edu for information on organic and sustaianable farming and news & events If you would like to access previous postings to the Mich-Organic listserv you can copy and paste the following URL into your browser address bar http://list.msu.edu/archives/mich-organic.html