About one billion citizens go to bed hungry each night with one child dying every 8 seconds directly from malnutrition. This failure to provide the basic right to food to one sixth of the world’s citizens is going to get worse.
The global population will rise by 50% by the year 2050 with an additional 3 billion new mouths to feed.
Speakers include:
Mrs Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Change
Mr Tom Arnold, Chief Executive, Concern Worldwide
Professor Patrick Cunningham, Professor of Animal Genetics, TCD
Dr Mark W. Rosegrant, International Food Policy Research Institute