How can we hope to feed a world population that is expected to reach 10 billion or more by 2050? That’s the provocative issue addressed at a TEDx-CERN talk last week by Nina Federoff, the distinguished biologist at Penn State University. Can we feed that many with our existing resources? What role has science played in developing food and agriculture throughout human history and what solutions might it offer going forward?
Nina Fedoroff’s research interests range from the biochemistry of microRNA processing and transposition to the design of greenhouses for hot, humid environments, although she is best known for her pioneering work on plant transposons. A PhD from Rockefeller University, she is the Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University. A 2006 National Medal of Science laureate, she served as Science and Technology Adviser to the US Secretary of State and to USAID’s administrator.
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