The Second International Conference on Global Food Security therefore aims to deliver state-of-the-art analysis, inspiring visions and innovative methods arising from research in a wide range of disciplines.

The conference will address the food system activities of processing, distributing and consuming food, as well as food production from crop, livestock, tree, freshwater and marine sources; the availability, access, utilization and stability dimensions of food security; and the synergies and trade-offs between economic, environmental, health and social objectives and outcomes. The conference will thereby range across disciplines and spatiotemporal scales of analysis to span the drivers, activities and outcomes of food systems to encompass both contextualized and holistic treatments of the broad challenge of food security.

Topics list for parallel sessions

Global and local analyses of food security and its drivers (including prospective breadbasket failures, and measuring and assessing food security and its drivers)

Enabling policies and institutions for inclusive global food security (especially gender and generation differentiated)

Sustainable intensification of food production systems

Urbanization, food value chains, and the sustainable, secure sourcing of food

Competing demands and tradeoffs for land and water resources (including the next land rush)

Technological breakthroughs to help feed 9+ billion

Reducing food loss and waste

Reducing risks to food production and distribution from climate change

Consumer behavior, nutritional security and food assistance programs

Business-science cooperation to advance food security

The agriculture-nutrition-health nexus